Estuarine Ecology and Human Health Selected Publications

Converse, R.R., M. F. Piehler and R.T. Noble. 2011.  Contrasts in concentrations and loads of conventional and alternative indicators of fecal contamination in coastal stormwater.  Water Research, doi:10.1016/j.watres.2011.07.029.

Piehler, M.F. and A.R. Smyth.  2011.  Habitat-specific distinctions in estuarine denitrification affect both ecosystem function and services.  Ecosphere 2(1):art12.

O’Connor, M.I., C.R. Violin, A. Anton, L.M. Ladwig and M.F. Piehler.  2011.  Salt marsh stabilization affects primary producers at the marsh edge.  Wetlands Ecology and Management 19: 131-140.

Piehler, M.F., C.A. Currin, N.S. Hall.  2010.  Estuarine intertidal sandflat benthic microalgal responses to in situ and mesocosm nitrogen additions. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 390:99-105.

Stumpf, C.H., R.T. Noble, M.F. Piehler and S.P. Thompson.  2010. Loading of fecal indicator bacteria in North Carolina tidal creek headwaters: hydrographic patterns and terrestrial runoff relationships.  Water Research 44: 4704-4715.

Waters, M.N., M.F. Piehler, J. Smoak, and C. Martens.  2010.  The development and persistence of alternative ecosystem states in a large, shallow lake.  Freshwater Biology 55:1249-1261.

McMillan, S.K., M.F. Piehler, S.P. Thompson and H.W. Paerl.  2009.  Denitrification of nitrogen released from senescing algal biomass in coastal agricultural headwater streams. Journal of Environmental Quality 39:274-281.

Piehler, M.F., J. Dyble, P.H. Moisander, A.D. Chapman, J. Hendrickson and H.W. Paerl. 2009. Interactions between nitrogen dynamics and the phytoplankton community in Lake George, Florida, USA. Lake and Reservoir Management, 25:1-14.

O’Connor, M.I., M.F. Piehler, D.M. Leech, A. Anton, and J.F. Bruno. 2009. Warming and resource availability shift food web structure and metabolism. PLoS Biology 7(8): e1000178. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000178.

Waters, M.N., M. F. Piehler, A.B. Rodriguez, J.M. Smoak and T.S. Bianchi. 2009. Shallow lake trophic status linked to late-Holocene climate and human impacts. Paleolimnology 42:51-64.

Piehler, M.F. 2008. Watershed management strategies to prevent and control cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 619:259-274.

Ensign, S.H., M.F. Piehler, and M.W. Doyle. 2008. Riparian zone denitrification affects nitrogen flux through a tidal freshwater river. Biogeochemistry 91:133–150.

Peterson, C.H., K.W. Able, C. Frieswyk DeJong, M.F. Piehler, C.A. Simenstad, and J.B.Zedler. 2008. Practical proxies for tidal marsh ecosystem services. Advances in Marine Biology 54:221-266.

Paerl, H.W. and M.F. Piehler. 2008. Nitrogen and Marine Eutrophication. In, D.G, Capone, M. Mulholland and E. Carpenter (Eds.). Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, Vol. 2. Academic Press, Orlando.

Peterson, C.H., R.T. Barber, K.L. Cottingham, H.K. Lotze, C.A. Simenstad, R.R. Christian, M.F. Piehler, and J. Wilson. 2008. National Estuaries, Chapter 7. In (S. Julius, and J. West, eds.) SAP4.4 Adaptive options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources, U.S. EPA Global Climate Change Research Office, Washington, DC. 108 pp.

Perovich, G, Q. Dortch, J. Goodrich, P.S. Berger, J. Brooks, T.J. Evens, C.J. Gobler, J. Graham, J. Hyde, D. Karner, D. O’Shea, V. Paul, H. Paerl, M. Piehler, B. Rosen, M. Santelmann, P. Tester and J. Westrick. 2008. Cyanobacterial blooms: Causes, prevention and mitigation.   Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 619:185-216.

Ensign, SH SK McMillan, SP Thompson and MF Piehler. 2006. Nitrogen and phosphorus attenuation within the stream network of a coastal, agricultural watershed. Journal of Environmental Quality 35:1237-1247.

Valdes-Weaver, LM, MF Piehler, JLPinckney, KE Howe, K Rossignol and HW Paerl. 2006.   Long-term temporal and spatial patterns of phytoplankton community structure in a hydrologically variable estuarine continuum: the Neuse River Estuary-Pamlico Sound, NC, USA. Limnology and Oceanography 51:1410-1420.



Public Policy and Coastal Sustainability Selected Publications

“Hybrid Institutions”: Applications of Common Property Theory Beyond Discrete Property Regimes” The International Journal of the Commons Vol 4, No 1 (2010) Joint with Laura German.

"Industrialized-Country Mitigation Policy and Resource Transfers to Developing Countries: Improving and Expanding Greenhouse Gas Offsets",  in Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy:  Implementing Architectures for Agreement, Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, editors, Campbridge University Press: Cambridge, MA.  2009.

Final Report of Florida Cap-and-Trade Project Phase I”, report for the Florida Department of Environmental protection, available at “http://www.cefa.fsu.edu/uploaded%20current%20projects/Phase%201%20Report%20DEP%20Final%20_06-08-09_.pdf

“State Commission Electricity Regulation Under Federal Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Policy” The Electricity Journal 21:4, 2008, pp 19-30.

“Life Cycle Cost-Benefit Analysis of Extensive Vegetated Roof Systems” 
Journal of Environmental Management 87 (3), 2008, pp. 350-363. 
Joint with Tim Carter.

“State Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policies: A Move in the Right Direction?” Policy Sciences 40(4), 2007, pp, 353-365.

 “Farm Level Irrigation and the Marginal Cost of Water Use: Evidence from Georgia,”  Journal of Environmental Management 80, 2006, pp. 311-317,.  Joint with Yassert Alvarez-Gonzalez and Jeffrey Mullen.

“Coastal Erosion Management from a Community Economics Perspective: the Feasibility and Efficiency of User Fees” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37:2, 2005, pp. 451-46. Joint with Warren Kriesel and Craig Landry.

 “Sequestration Rental Policies and the Price Path of Carbon”.” Climate Policy 4 (4), 2005, 419-425.

“Tax Interaction Effects, Environmental Regulation, and “Rule of Thumb” Adjustments to Social Cost.” Environmental and Resource Economics 30, 2005, 73-92. Joint with Brian Murray and Walter Thurman.

 “Pooling of Uncertainty: Enforcing Tradable Permits Regulation when Emissions are Stochastic,” Environmental and Resource Economics 29 (4), 2004, pp. 459-481. Joint with Janusz Mrozek.

“Contract-Based Trading Programs in Environmental Regulation.” Contemporary Economic Policy 22, 2004, pp. 526-533.

“Financing Beach Improvements: Comparing Two Approaches on the Georgia Coast,’ Coastal Management Journal 32 (4), 2004, pp. 433-447.  Joint with Warren Kriesel and Craig Landry.

“An Economic Evaluation of Beach Erosion Alternatives.” Marine Resource Economics 18 (2), 2003, pp. 105-127. Joint with Warren Kriesel and Craig Landry.

“Expanding the National Flood Insurance Program to Cover Coastal Erosion Damage.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 35 (3), 2003,  pp. 447-455.  Joint with Warren Kriesel and Craig Landry.

“Water -- A Public Resource Or A Commodity”: What Are The Real Policy Questions?," November 2003, (http://www.cviog.uga.edu/water/whitepapers/index.html) . Joint with Ron Cummings and Ben Thompson

 “Designing a Carbon Dioxide Trading System: The Advantages of Upstream Regulation,” July 2002 (http://www.cpc-inc.org)


Maritime Heritage Selected Publications

2011       The Vernacular Watercraft of Castle Island, Washington, North Carolina (With Bradley A. Rodgers). Due for publication in At the Edge of the Known World: Vernacular Boats and Ships as Technological Adaptations to New Environments, Evans, Amanda and Mark Staniforth (eds.).  In press.

2010       Ship Abandonment, in Catsambis, Alex, Ben Ford and Donny Hamilton (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom.  In press.  LINK TO PDF

2010       A Bermudian workhorse: The Dockyard Lighter Wreck, Royal Navy Dockyard, in Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History.  Under Consideration (With Joseph C. Hoyt).

2009       Skeletons in Black Bay: Wrecks bridge the gap between iron- and steel-hulled sailing ships, in MARITimes: Magazine of the Bermuda Maritime Museum.  Volume 21(3): 14-16 (With Bradley A. Rodgers and Theresa R. Hicks).

2009       Dockyard ‘workhorse’: Unidentified wreck is most likely a steam lighter, in MARITimes: Magazine of the Bermuda Maritime Museum.  Volume 21(3): 18-19 (With Joseph C. Hoyt).

2009       Conflict and Commerce: Maritime Archaeological Site Distribution as Cultural Change on the Roanoke River, North Carolina (With Franklin Price), in Historical Archaeology 43(4):75-96.  LINK TO PDF

2009       A gunboat rediscovered, in MARITimes: Magazine of the Bermuda Maritime Museum.  Volume 21(3): 11-13 (With Calvin Mires, Joseph C. Hoyt and Peter Campbell).  LINK TO PDF

2008       Virtual Modelling and 3D Photogrammetry for Maritime Heritage: Exercises in Eos Photomodeler Pro 5.0, in Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Volume 32: 27-41. (With Brian Diveley, Michelle Liss, and Sami Seeb).  LINK TO PDF

2008       Ships Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Formation Process.  University Press of Florida Gainesville, FL.

2007       Garden Island (1906-1945) – Graveyard of Ships, in Nash, Mike (ed.), Shipwreck!  Nautical Archaeology in Australia, University of Western Australia Press: Fremantle, pps. 183-193

2007       Artefact Patterning at the Holdfast Bay Jetty: Part 2, an Interpretation of the Archaeological Deposit, in Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, (With Chris Lewczak). Volume 31: 55-62.  LINK TO PDF

2007       Artefact Patterning at the Holdfast Bay Jetty: Part 1, a General Consideration of N-Transforms, in Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, (With Chris Lewczak)  Volume 31: 44-54.  LINK TO PDF

2007       An Eagles Island Ships’ Graveyard Maritime Heritage Trail, in The Newsletter of Historic Wilmington Foundation.  17(3): 5 (With Calvin Mires, Sami Seeb and Michael Dermody). LINK TO PDF

2006       The Abandoned Ships’ Project, in Historical Archaeology. 40(4): 84-102. (With Mark Staniforth).  LINK TO PDF

2005       Unfit for further use: Watercraft discard in Tasmania (1808-1997), in Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Volume 29: 25-39. (With Michael Nash)  LINK TO PDF

2005       Thematic Studies in Australian Maritime Archaeology, in Staniforth, Mark, and Nash, Mike (eds.), Australian Approaches to Maritime Archaeology, Kluwer Press: New York, pp. 41-54.  LINK TO PDF

2005       The archaeological examination of watercraft abandonment in Australia: A retrospective, in Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, Volume 29: 61-76. LINK TO PDF

2005       Ruling Theories Linger: Questioning the Identity of the Beaufort Inlet Shipwreck, in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 34(1): 24-37. (With Bradley A. Rodgers, and Wayne Lusardi).  LINK TO PDF

2004       The role of geo-politics in cultural site formation: A case study from the Northern Territory, in Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, Volume 28: 97-106.

2003       The role of isolation in cultural site formation: A case study from Strahan, Tasmania, in Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Volume 27: 77-84.  LINK TO PDF

2003       South Australia’s “Floating Coffin”: the diseased, the destitute, and the derelict Fitzjames (1852 - c.1900), in The Great Circle, Volume 25(1) pp. 19-39. (With Sally K. May).  LINK TO PDF

2002       Back to the Bay: An overview of the Holdfast Bay Project 1974-2000 and the reinvigoration of avocational maritime archaeology in South Australia. Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Volume 26: 19-26. (With Christopher Lewczak)  LINK TO PDF

2001       Garden Island Ships Graveyard Maritime Heritage Trail.  Heritage South Australia: Adelaide. (With Robyn Hartell)

2000       The Ships Graveyard, in Marr, Jane (ed.). The Port River.  City of Port Adelaide Enfield: Adelaide. Pp. 33.

2000       Recommendations for Future Web-based Aspects of the Flinders University Archaeology Topic: ARCH 3007 ‘Power, Ethnicity and Gender in Archaeology,’ in Smith, Claire. 2000. Archaeology in Cyberspace: A Pilot study at Flinders University, South Australia.  Southern Archaeology: South Australia pp.77-80.

1999       The Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard: Results and Findings of Archaeological Fieldwork 1996-1998, Proceedings of the National Archaeology Students’ Conference 1998. Australian National University: Canberra, pp.11-18.

1999       Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard: Maritime Heritage Trail, in Heritage South Australia Newsletter. Number 15 (July): 14-15.

1998       Inferences from the study of Iron and Steamship Abandonment: A Case Study from the Garden Island Ship’s Graveyard, South Australia, in Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Volume 22(1): 75-80.  LINK TO PDF

Dr. Nancy White Selected Publications


White NM and DE Line D.E. 2010. Watershed monitoring and TMDL modeling to assess bacterial loading in estuarine environments to improve management, Selected to be published in the Proceedings of the TCS22 Annual Conference 

 Patchanee, Prapas, Bayleyegn Molla Zewde, Nancy White, Daniel E Line, Wondwossen Gebreyes.  2010.  Tracking Salmonella contamination in various watersheds with phenotypic and genotypic diversity. To be published in Food borne Pathogens and Disease, MS # FPD-2010-05728.~1

 Line D.E, NM White, W.W. Kirby Smith and JD Potts. 2008. Fecal coliform export from four coastal North Carolina areas. JAWRA, 44 (3): 606-617..

 Line, D.E. and N.M. White. 2006. Effects of Development on Runoff and Pollutant Export. /Water Environment Research/ 79(2):185-190.

 Kirby-Smith William and NM White. 2005. Bacterial Contamination Associated with Estuarine Shoreline Development. Journal of Applied Microbiology. JAM-2005-0127.R1

 Berke, Philip R., Joe McDonald, Nancy M. White, Dan Line, Michael Holmes, Kat Oury, Rhonda Ryznar. 2003. "Greening Development to Protect Watersheds: Is New Urbanism the Answer?" Journal of American Planning Association, V69, #4, pps 397-413.

 Line, D. E., NM White, DL Osmond, Gregory Jennings and Carolyn Mojonnier.  2002.  Pollutant Export from Various Land Uses in the Upper Neuse River Basin, Water Environment Research, V74, #1.  

 White, Nancy. 2002.  Protecting estuarine water quality through design.  Pub #: UNC–SG–01-13 

Hunt, William F. and Nancy White.  2001.  Designing rain gardens (bio-retention areas).  Series Title: Urban waterways; AG (Series); 588-3.  

Cherry, Diane; Leon Danielson, Steve Smutko, Tom Vukina, and Nancy White. 1998. Framework and methodologies for estimating the benefits from erosion and sedimentation pollution control. Report to NC Sedimentation and Pollution Control Commission. June, 1998.