PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS: (*Invited)

*Howes, B.L. 2003. The Massachusetts Estuaries Project and nutrient water quality modeling for restoration of coastal embayments in Southeastern Massachusetts. Water Environment Association. Boston, MA.

Howes, B.L. and R.I. Samimy. 2003. Massachusetts Estuaries Project: management and restoration of 89 southeastern Massachusetts embayments. NEERS, Spring 2003.

*Howes, B.L. and D.R. Schlezinger. 2003. Eutrophication of Mt. Hope Bay. Mt. Hope Bay Symposium within NERRS, Spring 2003.

Schlezinger, D.R. and B.L. Howes. 2003. Biogeochemical controls on the efficiency of freshwater systems to intercept and attenuate groundwater nitrogen loading to estuaries. NERRS, Spring 2003.

Hamersley, M.R. and B.L. Howes. 2003. Coupled nitrification-denitrification measured in situ in vegetated salt marsh sediments with a nitrogen-15 ammonium tracer. NERRS, Spring 2003.

White, D.S., B.L. Howes and D.R. Schlezinger. 2003. The use of zero-valent iron as a geochemical barrier to trap groundwater-borne phosphorus in the surficial sediments of a kettle pond, Cape Cod MA. NERRS, Spring 2003.

Rengefors, K., C.L. Haupert, K.C. Ruttenberg, C. D. Taylor, B.L. Howes and D.M. Anderson. Species-specific response of alkaline phosphatase activity of freshwater phytoplankton in a nutrient enrichment experiment. Journal of Phycology

*Howes, B.L. 2002. The effects of watershed stress on New England’s aquatic ecology. Conference on land use and groundwater management challenges in New England. American Groundwater Trust.

Smith, K. & B.L. Howes. 2002. Attenuation of watershed nitrogen by a New England salt marsh: a buffer for cultural eutrophication of coastal waters. Water Research Association. Boston, MA.

Dyer, M., R. Hiltabrand, C. Taylor, B. Howes, T. Pedersen. 2001. Performance Tests of Alternative Ballast. Water Treatment Systems. Second International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, New Orleans.

Haupert, C.L., K.C. Ruttenberg, K. Rengefors, B.L. Howes, C.D. Taylor. 2001. Discrepancies between Redfield C:N:P stoichiometry and alkaline phosphatase activity as nutrient deficiency indicators. ASLO.

Hamersley, M.R. and B.L. Howes. 2001. Contribution of denitrification to C,N and O cycling in sediments of a New England salt marsh. Estuarine Research Federation.

Howes, B.L., J. Higgins, G. Heufelder and S. Foss. 2000. Removal of MS2 Coliphage Virus by Standard Septic Tank-Leach Trench Septic Systems. NE Water Research Association. Boston, MA.

Howes, B.L. 2000. Wetland Restoration in New England: Institutional interests, capabilities and needs. University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Coastal Marsh Research Symposium. Wetlands Restor Prog., Plymouth MA.

*Howes, B.L., K.N. Smith, P.K. Weiskel and L.A. DeSimone. 1998. Nitrogen retention and denitrification in New England salt marshes: Hydrologic controls and component cycles. International Conference on Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology. Vineland NJ.

*Teal, J.M. and B.L. Howes. 1998. Salt marsh values: Retrospection from the end of the century. International Conference on Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology. Vineland NJ.

*Howes, B.L., D.R. Schlezinger and J.A. Blake. 1997. "Recovery" of Boston Harbor Benthos: infauna, carbon- nitrogen cycling, and sediment-water column exchanges. Coastal Zone '97, Boston.

*Howes, B.L., D.R. Schlezinger, J.A. Blake and D.C. Rhoads. 1997. Infaunal "Recovery" as a control on sediment organic matter remineralization and the fate of regenerated nutrients in Boston Harbor. ERF

Cibik, S., B.L. Howes, C.D. Taylor and M.J. Mickelson. 1997. Baseline water quality monitoring for Boston's wastewater outfall relocation into Massachusetts Bay. Water Environment Federation, Chicago.

Hay, B.J. and B.L. Howes. 1997. Coastal monitoring in the harbor of Montego Bay, Jamaica: integrating urban demands and environmental constraints. Coastal Zone '97, Boston.

Howes, B., D. Schlezinger, S. Cibik and J. Blake. 1996. Infaunal "recovery" enhances carbon and nitrogen mineralization and denitrification of Boston Harbor sediments. MA Marine Environ. Symposium. Boston

Hood, E.M., B.L. Howes and W.J. Jenkins. 1996. Dissolved gas dynamics in perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Ocean Sciences.

Altabet, M.A. and B. Howes. 1996. 18/16O evidence for photosynthetic origin of O2 supersaturation in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Ocean Sciences.

*Howes, B.L. 1995. Environmental management of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. NSF sponsored workshop, March 1995, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Weiskel, P.K., B.L. Howes, J.B. Smith, and L.A. DeSimone. 1995. Hydrogeologic field methods for coastal wetlands. Society of Wetlands Scientists.

Hay, B.J. and B.L. Howes. 1995. Coastal environmental monitoring for wastewater effluent discharge, Jamaica. New England Environmental Expo.

*Hamersley, M.R., D.S. White, B.L. Howes, J.M. Teal and S.B. Peterson. 1995. Nitrogen removal in an ecologically engineered septage treatment system. ESA.

Hay, B., B. Wade, G. Parkin B. Howes, and K. Lande. 1994. Montego Bay Environmental Monitoring Program, Jamaica - first results. GEOTROP 94.

*Howes, B.L. 1993. Internal oxygen transport by Spartina alterniflora: relationship to rhizosphere oxidation and growth form. L.S.U. Wetlands Biogeochemistry Symposium.

*Howes, B.L., C.D. Taylor, D.D. Goehringer, D.R. Schlezinger and N.P. Millham. 1993. Oxygen balance in temperate coastal lagoons. ERF.

Schlezinger, D.R. and B.L. Howes. 1993. New techniques in chemical analysis of paleosols and anthrosols. Massachusetts Archaeological Society.

*Howes, B.L. 1992. Rivers, deltas and the Western Black Sea. International Western Black Sea Workshop, Varna, Bulgaria.

Weiskel, P.K. and B.L. Howes. 1992. Characterizing nitrate flux through permeable coastal watersheds: A comparison of methods. FOCUS Conference on Eastern Regional Groundwater Issues.

Teal, J.M., B.L. Howes and S.B. Peterson. 1992. Waste treatment in wetlands engineered for high loading - a septage treatment example. INTECOL Wetland Conference,

*Howes, B.L. and R.E. Good. 1991. Factors controlling gas exchange in salt water wetlands: plant versus sediment exchanges and the role of hydrology. LSU Wetlands Symposium.

*Howes, B.L., R.L. Smith and R.A. Harnish. 1991. Sulfur cycling in a permanently ice covered amictic Antarctic Lake, Lake Fryxell. AGU.

Smith, R.L., B.L. Howes and S.P. Garabedian. 1991. In situ measurement of methane oxidation in groundwater using natural gradient tracer tests. U.S.G.S. Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Technical Meeting.

Fucile, P., B. Howes and W. Spencer. 1991. Instrumentation for measuring ice ablation in Antarctic Dry Valley Lakes. MTS Workshop, Woods Hole MA.

Hruby, T., B. Kolb, T. Smayda and B. Howes. 1990. Modeling the impacts of nutrient addition on the eutrophication potential in New Bedford Harbor. NEERS.

Howes, B. and J. Teal. 1989. Nutrient balance of a Massachusetts cranberry bog. Buzzards Bay Symposium

Myers, G.S., R.E. Good and B.L. Howes. 1989. The effects of subsurface water movement on productivity and chemistry in salt marsh sediments. N.J. Acad. Sci.

Spratt, H.G., B.L. Howes and R.E. Good. 1989. Salt marsh sulfur cycling in relation to interstitial water movement. A.S.L.O.

Bazylinski, D.A., B.L. Howes and H.W. Jannasch. 1988. Denitrification, nitrogen fixation and nitrous oxide concentrations through the Black Sea oxic-anoxic interface. A.S.L.O.

*Smith, R.L., B.L. Howes and J.H. Duff. 1988. Transport and consumption of methane in a contaminated aquifer. U.S.G.S Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Technical meeting.

*Howes, B.L., J.M. Teal, I. Valiela, D.D. Goehringer and R.G. VanEtten. Retention and transformations of nitrogen in Spartina - sediment systems and the response to nitrogen loading. A.G.U.-Ocean Sciences.

*Howes, B.L., D.D. Goehringer, R. Good and J.M. Teal. 1987. Controls of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycling in salt water wetlands. N.J. Acad. Sci.

*Howes, B.L., D.D. Goehringer, R. Good and J.M. Teal. 1987. Interactions between subsurface hydrology, surface gas exchange and oxidation in sediments vegetated by Spartina alterniflora. E.R.F.

*Howes, B.L., D.D. Goehringer, R.E. Good and J.M. Teal. 1987. Interactions between subsurface hydrology, surface gas exchange and oxidation of sediments vegetated by Spartina alterniflora. A.G.U.

*Howes, B.L., J.M. Teal, I. Valiela and D.G. Aubrey. 1987. Groundwater flow through nearshore sediments. A.S.L.O.

*Teal, J.M., B.L. Howes and D.D. Goehringer. 1987. Nitrogen exchanges between marsh and creeks in Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh. E.R.F.

*Smith, R.L., J.H. Duff and B.L. Howes. 1987. Development of techniques to measure in situ rates of microbial processes in a contaminated aquifer. U.S.G.S. 3rd Technical Toxic Waste Meeting.

*Harvey, R.W., L.H. George, R.L. Smith, D.R. LeBlanc, S.P. Garabedian and B.L. Howes. 1987. Transport of bacteria through a contaminated freshwater aquifer. U.S.G.S. 3rd Technical Toxic Waste Meeting.

Howes, B.L., D.D. Goehringer, J. Durand, R. Good and K. Strakosch. 1986. Interactions between subsurface hydrology, surface gas exchange and oxidation of sediments vegetated by Spartina alterniflora. A.S.L.O.

Wakeham, S.G., J.W.H. Dacey, B.L. Howes, J. Zeyer and R.P. Schwarzenbach. 1986. Dimethylsulfide in a coastal salt pond: production in the suboxic metalimnion and consumption in the anoxic hypolimnion. A.S.L.O., New Orleans.

Good, R.E., J.B. Durand, B.L. Howes and D.D. Goehringer. 1986. A study of marsh geochemical cycling and plant productivity. E.R.F.

*Howes, B.L., and J.W.H. Dacey. 1985. Mechanisms controlling oxidation in sediments vegetated by Spartina alterniflora. A.S.L.O., Minneapolis.

Dacey, JWH, B.L. Howes and S.G. Wakeham. 1985. Factors controlling dimethylsulfide emission from salt marshes. Biennial International Estuarine Research Conference, Durham, NH.

*Wakeham, S.G., B.L. Howes and J.W.H. Dacey. 1984. Volatile organic sulfur compounds in the water column of a coastal anoxic pond. A.S.L.O.

Howes, B.L., G.M. King and J.W.H. Dacey. 1983. Partitioning of carbon flow through oxygen and sulfate reduction pathways in vegetated salt marsh sediments. A.S.L.O., St. John's.

*Howes, B.L., I. Valiela and J.M. Teal. 1983. Transport and cycles of nitrogen and carbon in New England salt marshes. A.S.L.O.

Dacey, J.W.H. and B.L. Howes. 1983. Evapotranspiration controls porewater movement in short Spartina alterniflora marshes. E.S.A.

King, G.M., B.L. Howes and J.W.H. Dacey. 1983. Endproducts of sulfate reduction in vegetated salt marsh sediments. E.R.F.

Howes, B.L., J.W.H. Dacey and J.M. Teal. 1982. A carbon budget for sediments vegetated by short S. alterniflora in a New England salt marsh. A.S.L.O.

Goodwin, J.T., S.G. Wakeham, J.W.H. Dacey and B.L. Howes. 1982. Dimethyl sulfide in salt marsh waters. A.S.L.O., San Francisco.

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