Environment and Natural History Publications
Submissions from 2021
Florida Environment and Natural History Collections News Bibliography, University of South Florida Libraries
Submissions from 2020
Calling: Earth #025 - Nicole Seiden, Environmental Scientist, Nicole Seiden
Submissions from 2019
Geography, Environmental Resources and African Development, Fenda A. Akiwumi and William C. Barnett
Applicability of Combined GPR and Gradiometer to Detect Buried Shallow Targets for Near-Surface Investigations, Iftekhar Alam, William Piwonka, James Atkins, and Joseph E. Panzik
Forest Filter Effect for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in a Tropical Watershed, Kayson S.C. Barrett, Foday M. Jaward, and Amy L. Stuart
The 2015 Hurricane Season in the North Atlantic: An Analysis of Environmental Conditions, Jennifer Collins and David R. Roache
Zooplankton Community Structure in the NE Gulf of Mexico: Impacts of Environmental Variability and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Kate M. Dubickas
Calling: Earth #022 - Arsum Pathak, Environmental Scientist, Arsum Pathak
Cyanobacterial and algal abundance and biomass in cave biofilms and relation to environmental and biofilm parameters, Slađana Popović, Nataša Nikolić, Jelena Jovanović, Dragana Predojević, Ivana Trbojević, Ljiljana Manić, and Gordana Subakov Simić
Assessing Eukaryotic Biodiversity in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Through Environmental DNA Metabarcoding, Natalie Sawaya, Anni Djurhuus, Collin Closek, Megan Hepner, Emily Olesin, Lindsey Visser, Christopher Kelble, Katherine Hubbard, and Mya Breitbart
Environmental Setting, Stressors and Their Influence on Resilience of Benthic Fauna in the Gulf of Mexico, Patrick Schwing, Sarah Davies, Arne Diercks, Adrienne Correa, Isabel C. Romero, and Jason Sylvan
Environmental Legacies of Pre-Contact and Historic Land Use in Antigua, West Indies, Anthony Richard Tricarico
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Regulatory Methodology and Unmitigated Wetland Loss in Southwest Florida, Kathleen B. Castor
Evaluation of Marine Zooplankton Community Structure Through Environmental DNA Metabarcoding, Anni Djurhuus, Kathleen Pitz, Natalie Sawaya, Jaimie Rojas‐Márquez, Brianna Michaud, Enrique Montes, Frank E. Muller-Karger, and Mya Breitbart
Extending Spectrophotometric pHT Measurements in Coastal and Estuarine Environments, Nora Katherine Douglas
Impact of Surface Ocean Conditions and Aerosol Provenance on the Dissolution of Aerosol Manganese, Cobalt, Nickel and Lead in Seawater, Matthew P. Fishwick, Simon J. Ussher, Peter N. Sedwick, Maeve C. Lohan, Paul J. Worsfold, Kristen N. Buck, and Thomas M. Church
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Predator-Prey Relationships in a Changing Ocean: From System Design to Education, Ileana M. Freytes-Ortiz
Application of Modern Foraminiferal Assemblages to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: Case Studies from Coastal and Shelf Environments, Christian Haller
Benthic Foraminifera from the Carnarvon Ramp Reveal Variability in Leeuwin Current Activity (Western Australia) since the Pliocene, Christian Haller, Pamela Hallock, Albert C. Hine, and Christopher G. Smith
Selection of Energy Systems in Aquaculture through a Decision Support Tool Considering Economic and Environmental Sustainability, Youngwoon Kim
Wakes from Large Vessels and the Risk to the Shoreline Environment in Tampa Bay, Steven D. Meyers, Mark E. Luther, Gary Raulerson, Ed Sherwood, Stephanie Ringuet, Katie Conrad, and Gian Basili
Role of Floods on Sinkhole Occurrence in Covered Karst Terrains: Case Study of the Orléans Area (France) During the 2016 Meteorological Event and Perspectives for other Karst Environments, Gildas Noury, Jérôme Perrin, Li-Hua Luu, Pierre Philippe, and Sébastien Gourdier
Flames and Frogs – The Impact of Environmental Disturbances on Host-Parasite Dynamics, Nicole Ortega
Environmental controls on the geochemistry of Globorotalia truncatulinoides in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions, Caitlin Elizabeth Reynolds
Sulfur Cave (Romania), an extreme environment with microbial mats in a CO2-H2S/O2 gas chemocline dominated by mycobacteria, Serban M. Sarbu, Joost W. Aerts, Jean-François Flot, Rob J.M. Van Spanning, Calin Baciu, Artur Ionescu, Boglárka M. Kis, Reka Incze, Sándor Sikó-Barabási, Zoltan Para, Botond Hegyeli, Nicu-Viorel Atudorei, Casey Barr, Kenneth Nealson, Ferenc L. Forray, Cristian Lascu, Emily J. Fleming, Wilbert Bitter, and Radu Popa
Tracing the Incorporation of Carbon into Benthic Foraminiferal Calcite Following the Deepwater Horizon Event, Patrick Schwing, Jeffrey P. Chanton, Isabel C. Romero, David Hollander, Ethan A. Goddard, Gregg R. Brooks, and Rebekka A. Larson
Gulf-wide Impacts, Recovery and Connectivity of Marine Invertebrates in the Context of Oil Spills and Environmental Variability, Patrick Schwing and Yadong Wang
Editor’s Message: Impact of Politics on USA Water Quality Monitoring, Protection and Management, Philip E. van Beynen
Submissions from 2017
Jahani Salt Diapir, Iran: hydrogeology, karst features and effect on surroundings environment, Mahmoud Abirifard, Ezzat Raeisi, Mehdi Zarei, Mohammad Zare, Michal Filippi, Jiří Bruthans, and Christopher J. Talbot
The Influence of Tropical Forests and Climate Change on the Fates of Select Organic Pollutants in a Jamaican Watershed, Kayon Barrett
Freshwater Wetland Creation in a Changing Urban Environment: Designing for Long-Term Viability, Aaron Thomas Ryan Brown
Anthropogenic infilling of a Bermudian sinkhole and its impact on sedimentation and benthic foraminifera in the adjacent anchialine cave environment, Jacquelyn N. Cresswell, Peter J. van Hengstum, Thomas M. Iliffe, Bruce E. Williams, and Gil Nolan
Secondary minerals from salt caves in the Atacama Desert (Chile): a hyperarid and hypersaline environment with potential analogies to the Martian subsurface, Jo De Waele, Cristina Carbone, Laura Sanna, Marco Vattano, Ermanno Galli, Francesco Sauro, and Paolo Forti
Longitudinal Awareness: A Study of Vulnerability to Flooding in Polk County, Iowa, Kerri A. Dickey
Evaluation of Filtration and DNA Extraction Methods for Environmental DNA Biodiversity Assessments across Multiple Trophic Levels, Anni Djurhuus, Jesse Port, Collin Closek, Kevan Yamahara, Ofelia Romero-Maraccini, Kristine Walz, Dawn Goldsmith, Reiko Michisaki, Mya Breitbart, Alexandria Boehm, and Francisco Chavez
Habitat Use and Behaviours of Introduced Muscovy Ducks (Cairina moschata) in Urban and Suburban Environments, Joni Downs, Rebecca Loraamm, James Howard Anderson Jr., Jacqueline Perry, and Jessica Bullock
Influence of Environmental Parameters on Mold Sampling Results, Benjamin Fishman
Variability and Host Density Independence in Inductions-based Estimates of Environmental Lysogeny, Knowles Knowles, Barbara Bailey, Lance Boling, Mya Breitbart, and Ana Cobián-Güemes
Measurement of Environmental Pollution: Types and Techniques, Rajeev Kumar, Arsum Pathak, Moondeep Chauhan, and Sushma Negi
Environmental Factors Correlated with Culturable Enterococci Concentrations in Tropical Recreational Waters: a Case Study in Escambron Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico, A. E. Laureano-Rosario, E. M. Symonds, Digna Rueda-Roa, Daniel B. Otis, and Frank E. Muller-Karger
Like Watching a Brother Die: Environmental Racism in Bahia, Brazil, Meredith Main
Temporal Variability in Potentially Toxic Elements (Pte'S) and Benthic Foraminifera in an Estuarine Environment in Puerto Rico, Michael Martinez-Colon, Pamela Hallock, Carlos Green-Ruíz, and Joseph M. Smoak
The blurred line between photic and aphotic environments: a large Mexican cave with almost no dark zone, Luis M. Mejía-Ortíz, Tanja Pipan, David C. Culver, and Peter Sprouse
Environmental Drivers of Benthic Communities and Habitat Heterogeneity on an East Antarctic Shelf, Alexandra L. Post, Caroline Lavoie, Eugene W. Domack, Amy Leventer, Amelia E. Shevenell, Alexander D. Fraser, and NBP 14-02 SCIENCE TEAM
Epigenetic Response to Challenging Environmental Conditions, Marta Robertson
Impacts and Recovery of Benthic Marine Environments in the Aftermath of the DWH Event, Patrick Schwing, David Hollander, Paul Montagna, and Peter Santschi
Characterizing the Variability of Benthic Foraminifera in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon Event (2010-2012), Patrick Schwing, Bryan J. O'Malley, Isabel C. Romero, M Martínez-Colón, D. W. Hastings, M. A. Glabach, E. M. Hladky, Anthony M. Greco, and David Hollander
Consistency of Structural Color across Molts: The Effects of Environmental Conditions and Stress on Feather Ultraviolet Reflectance, Rebecca Lynn Windsor
Submissions from 2016
Current Status of Marker Genes of Bacteroides and Related Taxa for Identifying Sewage Pollution in Environmental Waters, Warish Ahmed, Bridie Hughes, and Valerie J. Harwood
Geography and Environment of the Yoruba, Fenda A. Akiwumi
Effect of Diet, Anthropogenic Activity, and Climate on δ15N Values of Cave Bat Guano, Daniel M. Cleary
The Record‐Breaking 2015 Hurricane Season in the Eastern North Pacific: An Analysis of Environmental Conditions, Jennifer Collins, Philip J. Klotzbach, Ryan N. Maue, David R. Roache, Eric S. Blake, Charles H. Paxton, and Christopher A. Mehta
CTD and other environmental data for the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and west Florida shelf: June 2012 – August 2014, Kendra L. Daly
Reintroducing Environmental Change Drivers in Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Research., Frederik De Laender, Jason R. Rohr, Roman Ashauer, Donald J Baird, Uta Berger, Nico Eisenhauer, Volker Grimm, Udo Hommen, Lorraine Maltby, and Carlos J Meliàn
The Foram Stress Index: A New Tool for Environmental Assessment of Soft-Bottom Environments Using Benthic Foraminifera. A Case Study from the Saronikos Gulf, Greece, Eastern Mediterranean, Margarita D. Dimiza, Maria V. Triantaphyllou, Olga Koukousioura, Pamela Hallock, Nomiki Simboura, Aristomenis P. Karageorgis, and Evangelos Papathanasiou
The Ecological Succession of Mosquitoes Inhabiting Waste Tires in a Subtropical Swamp and Upland Forest in Central West Florida, Emily Thuong Nguyen Dinh
Environmental Justice: An Issue for Social Work Education and Practice, Sondra J. Fogel, Carenlee Barkdull, and Bret A. Weber
Introduction: Environmental Justice and Social Work, Sondra J. Fogel, Carenlee Barkdull, and Bret A. Weber
Caves and Mineral Deposits, P. Forti and Bogdan P. Onac
Vertical Migration of Karenia brevis in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Observed from Glider Measurements, Chuanmin Hu, Brian B. Barnes, Lin Qi, Chad Lembke, and David English
Advection in Polar and Sub-Polar Environments: Impacts on High Latitude Marine Ecosystems, George L. Hunt Jr., Kenneth F. Drinkwater, Kevin Arrigo, Jørgen Berge, Kendra L. Daly, Seth Danielson, Malin Daase, Haakon Hop, Enrique Isla, and Nina Karnovsky
The Archaeopalynology of Crystal River Site (8CI1), Citrus County, Florida, Kendal Jackson
Pollutants and Foraminiferal Assemblages in Torrecillas Lagoon: An Environmental Micropaleontology Approach, Michael Martinez-Colon
Testing the Feasibility of Imaging a Complex, Highly Conductive Environment with Field Instruments via a Three-Dimensional Electromagnetic Induction Forward Solver, Mark Rains, Christine Marie Downs, Sarah Kruse, and Chester J. Weiss
Transforming Ecosystems: When, Where, and How to Restore Contaminated Sites, Jason R. Rohr, Aïda M. Farag, Marc W. Cadotte, William H. Clements, James R. Smith, Cheryl P. Ulrich, and Richard Woods
Sediment Core Extrusion Method at Millimeter Resolution Using a Calibrated, Threaded-rod, Patrick Schwing, Isabel C. Romero, Rebekka A Larson, Bryan J. O'Malley, Erika E Fridrik, Ethan Goddard, Gregg R Brooks, David Hastings, Brad Rosenheim, David Hollander, Guy Grant, and Jim Mulhollan
Quantification of Boat Visitation Rates at Artificial and Natural Reefs in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Using Acoustic Recorders, Peter Simard, Kara R. Wall, David A. Mann, Carrie C. Wall, and Christopher D. Stallings
An Early Paleogene Palynological Assemblage from the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica: New Species and Implications for Depositional History, Catherine Davies Smith
Seasonal temperature variations controlling cave ventilation processes in Cueva Larga, Puerto Rico, Rolf Vieten, Amos Winter, Sophie Friederike Warken, Andrea Schrӧder-Ritzrau, Thomas E. Miller, and Denis Scholz
Making a Place for People at a Wildlife Corridor on Chicago's South Side, Alexis Winter
The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Inferring the Environmental Context of Human Evolution from Eastern African Rift Lake Deposits, Jonathan Wynn and J. N. Wilson
Submissions from 2015
Analyzing Sierra Leone's Water Reform Efforts: Law, Environment, and Sociocultural Justice Issues, Fenda A. Akiwumi
Reconstructing Paleoenvironments of the Plio-Pleistocene Tamiami Formation of Florida with Benthic Foraminifera, Heather Bender
Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the middle Eocene deposits from the northern part of the Tarcău Nappe (Eastern Carpathians, Romania), Raluca Bindiu and Sorin Filipescu
Annual to Millennial Record of Sediment Delivery to US Virgin Island Coastal Environments, Gregg Brooks, Rebekka A. Larson, Barry Devine, and Patrick Schwing
A Bat-Guano-Derived δ15N and δ13C Record of Paleoenvironmental Change: Zidită Cave, Romania, Daniel Martin Cleary
Environmental Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Plants Integrated with Resource Recovery: The Impact of Context and Scale, Pablo K. Cornejo
Small Changes of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment across the Eocene–Oligocene Transition in the Central Rocky Mountains, Majie Fan, Sara Ayyash, and Benjamin H. Passey
New data on the Early - Middle Badenian transition in the NW Transylvanian Basin (Romania) revealed by the planktonic foraminifera assemblages, Rodica Filipescu and Sorin Filipescu
A Late Holocene Environmental History of a Bat Guano Deposit from Romania: An Isotopic, Pollen and Microcharcoal Study, Ferenc L. Forray, Bogdan P. Onac, Ioan Tanţău, Jonathan G. Wynn, Tudor Tămaş, Ioan Coroiu, and Alexandra M. Giurgiu
Population Genetics and Epigenetics of Two Salt Marsh Plant Species along an Environmental Gradient, Christy M. Foust
Tampa Electric Company's Big Bend Utility Plant in Hillsborough County, Florida: A Case Study, Lynne M. Hodalski-Champagne
A new microenvironment for the formation of clay minerals: the example of authigenic halloysite-7Å and gibbsite in a stalactite from Agios Georgios Cave, Kilkis, north Greece, Elena Ifandi, Basilios Tsikouras, Dimitrios Papoulis, Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou, and Aspasia Antonelou
Phytoplankton Adapt to Changing Ocean Environments, A. J. Irwin, Z. V. Finkel, Frank E. Muller-Karger, and L. T. Ghinaglia
A Composite Spatial Model Incorporating Groundwater Vulnerability and Environmental Disturbance to Guide Land Management, Johanna L. Kovarik
Application of the Karst Disturbance Index as a Raster-based Model in a Developing Country, Johanna L. Kovarik and Philip E. van Beynen
Karst Paleo-Collapses and Their Impacts on Mining and the Environment in Northern China, Gongyu Li and Wanfang Zhou
Assessment of Soil Transmitted Helminth Infection (STHI) in School Children, Risk Factors, Interactions and Environmental Control in El Salvador., Sharad Suryakant Malavade
Foraminiferal Assemblage Indices: A Comparison of Sediment and Reef Rubble Samples from Conch Reef, Florida, USA, Christy McNey Stephenson, Pamela Hallock, and Francisco Kelmo
A Rising Tide: Students Explore the Effects of Thermal Expansion on Sea Levels—Both Globally and Close to Home, Molly T. Nation, Allan Feldman, and Ping Wang
Hydrocarbons in Deep-Sea Sediments following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico, Isabel C. Romero, Patrick Schwing, Gregg R Brooks, Rebekka A Larson, David W. Hastings, Greg Ellis, Ethan Goddard, and David Hollander
Information Technology & Sustainability: An Empirical Study of the Value of the Building Automation System, Daphne Marie Simmonds
Miocene-Pleistocene paleoclimate and paleoenvironment in the Meade Basin, Kansas, Kathryn Snell, Anne C. Fetrow, Crystal Burgess, Kevin T. Uno, David L. Fox, William E. Lukens, Kena Fox-Dobbs, and Pratigya Polissar
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Ethnic Diversity in Courses on Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development, Fenda A. Akiwumi
