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Annual Reports (PDF format):

Annual reports contain information regarding research and findings from the USES project as well as proposed research for each of the USES sub-groups. Reports highlighted in blue are available in PDF format.

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Related Publications:

The following are USES related publications and links to them if available:

• "An Overview of the Effects of Urbanization on Estuaries: The Land-Estuarine Interface" by Winona B. Vernberg

• "Using Multiple Antibiotic Resistance and Land Use Characteristics to Determine Sources of Fecal Coliform Bacterial Pollution" by R. Heath Kelsey, Geoffrey I. Scott, Dwayne E. Porter, Brian Thompson, and Laura Webster (Abstract)

• "Bioaccumulation, Growth and Larval Settlement Effects of Sediment-Associated Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Estuarine Polychaete Streblospio benedicti (Webster)" by G. Thomas Chandler, Michelle R. Shipp, and Teresa L. Donelan (Abstract)

• "Can Urbanization Limit Iron Availability to Estuarine Algae?" by Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Alan J. Lewitus, C. Marjorie Aelion, and Henry N. McKellar (Abstract)

• "Spatial And Temporal Analyses Of Water Quality And Phytoplankton Biomass In An Urbanized
  Versus Pristine Salt Marsh Estuary" by D.L. White, D.E. Porter, and A.J. Lewitus (Abstract)

• "Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment of Sediment-Associated Fluoranthene in a Small, Urbanized, Non-Riverine Estuary" by Thomas C. Siewicki (Abstract)

• "Factors Influencing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Distributions in South Carolina Estuarine Sediments" by John R. Kucklck, Scott K. Silvertsen, Marion Sanders, and Geoffrey I. Scott(Abstract)

• "Impact of Suburbanization on Ground Water Quality and Denitrification in Coastal Aquifer Sediments" by C. Marjorie Aelion, J.N. Shaw, and M. Wahl

• "Kriging in Estuaries: As the Crow Flies, Or As the Fish Swims?" by Laurie S. Little, Don Edwards and Dwayne E. Porter (Abstract)

• "Nonpoint Source Runoff Modeling: A Comparison of a Forested Watershed and an Urban Watershed on the South Carolina Coast" by Christopher W. Corbett, Matthew Wahl, Dwayne E. Porter, Don Edwards, and Claudia Moise (Abstract)

• "Patterns of Nutrient Loading in Forested and Urbanized Coastal Streams" by M.H. Wahl, H.N. McKellar, and T.M. Williams

• "Harmful Algal Blooms in South Carolina Residential and Golf Course Ponds" by Alan J. Lewitus, Laura B. Schmidt, Larissa J. Mason, Jason W. Kempton, Susan B. Wilde, Jennifer L. Wolny, B. Jamie Williams, Kenneth C. Hayes, Sabrina N. Hymel, Charles J. Keppler, and Amy H. Ringwood (Abstract)

• Sustainable Development In the Southeastern Coastal Zone F. John Vernberg, Winona B. Vernberg and Thomas Siewicki, Editors

• OCRM's "Backyard Buffers" pamphlet (PDF)

• OCRM's "Vegetated Riparian Buffers and Buffer Ordinances" pamphlet (PDF)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Bejarano, A.C. and G.T. Chandler. 2003. Reproductive and developmental effects of atrazine on the estuarine meiobenthic copepod Amphiascus tenuiremis. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 22(12): 3009-3016. (Abstract)

• Cary, T.L., G.T. Chandler, D.C. Volz, S.S. Walse, and J.L. Ferry. 2004. Phenylpyrazole insecticide fipronil induces male infertility in the estuarine meiobenthic crustacean Amphiascus tenuiremis. Environ. Sci. Technol. 38: 522-528. (Abstract)

• Chandler, G.T. 2004. Standard Guide for Conducting Renewal Microplate-Based Life-Cycle Toxicity Tests with a Marine Meiobenthic Copepod. In: (S.J. Bailey et al., eds.) ASTM E 2317-04, American Society for Testing and Materials, W. Conshohocken, PA, USA, 15 pp.

• Chandler, G.T., T.L. Cary, A.C. Bejarano, J. Pender, and J.L.Ferry. 2004. Population consequences of fipronil and degradates to copepods at field concentrations: an integration of life cycle testing with Leslie matrix population modeling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 38:6407-6414. (Abstract)

• Downing, H. F., M.A. Delorenzo, M. H. Fulton, G. I. Scott, C.J. Madden and J. R. Kucklick. 2004. Effects of agricultural pesticides atrazine, chlorthalonil and endosulfan on South Florida microbial assemblages. Ecotoxicology 13: 245-260.

• Hongbo, M.A. and C.M. Aelion. 2005. Ammonium production during microbial nitrate removal in soil microcosms from a developing marsh estuary. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.

• Kelsey, H. E., G. Scott, D.E. Porter, B. Thompson, and L. Webster. 2003. Using multiple antibiotic resistance and land use characteristics to determine sources of fecal coliform bacterial pollution. International Journal of Env. Monitoring and Assessment 81: 337-348.

• Klosterhaus, S.L., P.L. Ferguson, and G.T. Chandler. 2002. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bioaccumulation by meiobenthic copepods inhabiting a superfund site: techniques for micromass body burden and total lipid analysis. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 21(11): 2331-2337. (Abstract)

• Pennington, P. L., M. E. De Lorenzo, J. C Lawton, E. D. Strozier, M. H. Fulton and G. I. Scott. 2004. Modular mesocosm validation: I. Ecotoxicological assessment of direct effects with the model compound endosulfan. Journal of Experimental Biol. And Ecology 298: 369-87.

• Sandifer, P. A., A. F. Holland, T. K. Rowles, and G. I. Scott. 2004. The oceans and human health. Guest Editorial. Env. Health Perspectives 112 (8): 454-455.

• Smalling, K.L. and C.M. Aelion. 2004. Distribution of atrazine into three chemical fractions: impact of sediment depth and organic carbon content. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23(5). (Abstract)

• Volz, D.C., E.F. Wirth, M.H. Fulton, G.I. Scott, E. Strozier, D.S. Block, J.L. Ferry, S.S. Walse and G.T. Chandler. 2003. Effects of Fipronil and Chlorpyrifos on endocrine-related endpoints in female grass shrimp (/Palaemonetes pugio/). Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 71:497-503.

• Walse, S.S., P. L. Pennington, G. I. Scott, and J. L. Ferry. 2004. The fate of fipronil in modular estuarine mesocosms. J. Environ. Monit. 6: 58-64.

• Webster, L. F., B. C. Thompson, M. H. Fulton, D. E. Chestnut, R. F. Van Dolah, A. K. Leight, and G. I. Scott. 2004. Identification of sources of /E. coli/ in South Carolina estuaries using antibiotic resistance analysis. Journ. Of Exp. Marine Biol. 298: 179-195.

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