What's New in the Department?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 3, 2011) – Progress Energy Foundation Gift Benefits USFSP Initiatives

New publications:

Sanders, C. J., Smoak, J. M., Patchineelam, S. R. and P.H. Cable; Lead-210 and Berilium-7 fallout rates on the southeastern coast of Brazil, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 102, 1122-1125, 2011.

Patchineelam, S.M., Sanders, C.J., Smoak, J.M., Zem, R.C., Oliveira, G. and S.R.Patchineelam; A Historical Evaluation of Anthropogenic Impact in Coastal Ecosystems through Geochemical Signatures,Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 22(1), 120-125, 2011.

Hardisty, B.E. and D.L. Cassill 2010. Memes and the Ecological Niche. Biological Theory 5:1-3.

Hardisty, B.E. and D.L. Cassill. 2010. Extending eusociality to include vertebrate family units. Biology and Philosophy 25:437-440.

Allen, S. and D.L. Cassill 2010. Skew selection theory applied: The wealth and welfare of nations. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 37:115-134.

Sanders, C.J., Smoak, J.M., Sanders, L.M. and S.R. Patchineelam; Organic carbon accumulation in Brazilian Mangal Sediments, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 30, 189-192, 2010

Casper A.F., B. Dixon, J. Earls, and J.A. Gore. 2010. Ecohydrology in ungauged river basins: Constraints in the integration watershed hydrology
models with instream habitat models when setting minimum flows and levels. Rivers Research and Applications 26:1-14

Sanders, C.J., Smoak, J.M., Naidu, A.S., Sanders, L.M. and S.R. Patchineelam; Organic carbon burial in a  mangrove forest, margin and intertidal mud flat; sedimentation and sea level rise, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 90, 168-172, 2010.

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

Smoak, J.M.;  Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Mass Balance for the Amazon Continental Shelf.  In:  Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins:  A Global Synthesis, eds.  K-K. Liu, L. Atkinson, R. Quinones and L. Talaue-McManus, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 443-449, 2010.

Sanders, C.J., Smoak, J.M., Naidu, A.S., Araripe, D.R. and S.R. Patchineelam; Mangrove forest sedimentation and its reference to sea level rise, Cananeia, Brazil, Environmental Earth Sciences, 60 (6), 1291-1301, 2010.

Sanders, C.J., Smoak, J.M., Sanders, L.M., Waters, M.N., Patchineelam, S.R. and M. E. Ketterer; Intertidal mangrove mudflat 240+239Pu signatures, confirming a 210Pb geochronology on the southeastern coast of Brazil, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 283(3), 593-596, 2010.

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