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MerMADE: Merrimack River Mixing and Divergence Experiment

Mt. Hope Bay and Brayton Point Power Station

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Publications:

1. Pappal, A.L., D.G. MacDonald, and R.A. Rountree. Evidence of Cobble Habitat Preference in Age-0 Winter Flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus. J. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology. Submitted. [For paper, click here]


2. MacDonald, D.G. and A.R. Horner-Devine. Temporal and spatial variability of vertical salt flux in a highly stratified estuary. J.Geophys. Res. Submitted. [For paper, click here]


3. Hetland, R.D. and D.G. MacDonald. Spreading in the Merrimack River Plume. Ocean Modeling, in press.


4. MacDonald, D.G., L. Goodman and R.D. Hetland, 2007. Turbulent dissipation in a near field river plume: A comparison of control volume and microstructure observations with a numerical model. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C07026, doi:10.1029/2006JC004075. [For paper, click here]


5. MacDonald, D.G. and K.R. Dyer, 2007. Estuarine Oceanography. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York.


6. R.A. Rountree and D.G. MacDonald, 2006. Introduction to the special issue: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Mt. Hope Bay Ecosystem, Northeast Naturalist, 13, Special Issue 4, pp 1-26. [more info]


7. MacDonald, D.G. and R.A. Rountree, 2006. Conclusion to the special issue: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Mt. Hope Bay Ecosystem, Northeast Naturalist, 13, Special Issue 4, pp 199-204. [more info]


8. Chen, F., and D.G. MacDonald, 2006. Role of mixing in the structure and evolution of a buoyant discharge plume, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C11002, doi:10.1029/2006JC003563. [For an abstract of the paper, click here.]


9. MacDonald, D.G., 2006. Estimating an estuarine mixing and exchange ratio from boundary data with application to Mt. Hope Bay (Massachusetts/Rhode Island), Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 70, 326-332. [For an abstract of the paper, click here.]


10. MacDonald, D.G., and W.R. Geyer, 2005. Hydraulic control of a highly stratified estuarine front. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35(3), 374-387. [For an abstract of the paper, click here.]


11. MacDonald, D. G., and W. R. Geyer, 2004. Turbulent energy production and entrainment at a highly stratified estuarine front, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 109, C05004, doi:10.1029/2003JC002094. [For an abstract of the paper, click here.]

For reprint of the articles, please email Daniel MacDonald.