JOURNAL ARTICLES: (* with Graduate Students of B.L. Howes)

In Rev Hamersley, M.R., B.L. Howes, and D.S. White. Floating plants ineffective in enhancing nitrogen cycling and treatment in a septage-treating wetland. Journal of Environmental Quality.

In Press Hamersley, M.R. and B.L. Howes. Contribution of denitrification to nitrogen, carbon and oxygen cycling in tidal creeek sediments of a New England salt marsh. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

2003 Rengefors, K., K.C. Ruttenberg, C.L. Haupert, C. D. Taylor, B.L. Howes and D.M. Anderson. Experimental investigation of taxon-specific response of alkaline phosphatase activity in natural freshwater phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 48:1167-1175.

2002 Hamersley, M.R. and B.L. Howes. Control of denitrification in a septage-treating artificial wetland: The dual role of particulate organic carbon. Water Research 36:4415-4427.

2001 Hamersley, M.R., B.L. Howes, D.S. White, S. Jonke, D. Young, S.B. Peterson, and J.M. Teal. Nitrogen balance and cycling in an ecologically engineered septage treatment system. Ecological Engineering 18:61-75.

2000 Bazylinski, D.A., D.R. Schlezinger, B.L. Howes and R.B. Frankel. Occurrence and distribution of diverse populations of magnetic protists in a chemically-stratified coastal salt pond. Chemical Geology . 169:319-328.

2000 McKnight, D.M., B.L. Howes, C.D. Taylor, D.D. Goehringer. Phytoplankton dynamics in a stablely stratified Antarctic lake during winter darkness. Journal of Phycology 36:852-861.

2000 Higgins, J., G. Heufelder, S. Foss, B. Howes. Removal of MS2 Coliphage Virus by Standard Septic Tank-Leach Trench Septic Systems. NEWEA Journal . In Press.

2000 Schlezinger, D.R. and B.L. Howes. Organic phosphorus and elemental ratios as indicators of prehistoric human occupation. Journal of Archaeological Science , 27:479-492.

1999 Teal, J.M. and B. Howes. Salt marsh values: restrospection from the end of the century. Chapter 6, In: XXX, In Press.

1998 DeSimone, L.A. and B.L. Howes. Nitrogen transport and transformations in a shallow aquifer receiving wastewater discharge: a mass-balance approach. Water Resources Research 34:271-285.

1998 Hood, E.M., B.L. Howes and W.J. Jenkins. Dissolved gas dynamics in perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Limnology and Oceanography , 43:265-272.

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

1997 * DeSimone, L.A., B.L. Howes and P.M. Barlow. Mass-balance analysis of reactive transport and cation exchange in a plume of wastewater-contaminated groundwater. Journal of Hydrology . 203:228-249.

1996 Teal, J.M. and B.L. Howes. Long-term stability in a salt marsh ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography 41: 802-809.

1996 Howes, B.L., P.K. Weiskel, D.D. Goehringer and J.M. Teal. Interception of freshwater and nitrogen transport from uplands to coastal waters: the role of saltmarshes. pp. 287-310, In: "Estuarine Shores: Hydrological, Geomorphological and Ecological Interactions (K. Nordstrom and C. Roman, Eds.). Wiley Interscience, Sussex, England.

1996 Howes, B.L. and S.R. Hart. Oyster Pond - Three Decades of Change. pp. 79-106, In: K.O. Emery, A Coastal Pond: Studied by Oceanographic Methods. OPET, Inc.

1996 * Weiskel, P.K., B.L. Howes and G.R. Heufelder. Coliform contramination of a coastal embayment: sources and transport pathways. Environmental Science and Technology 30:1872-1881.

1996 * DeSimone, L.A. and B.L. Howes. Denitrification and nitrogen transport in a coastal aquifer receiving wastewater discharge. Environmental Science and Technology 30:1152-1162.

1995 Howes, B.L. and J.M. Teal. Nitrogen balance in a Massachusetts cranberry bog and its relation to coastal eutrophication. Environmental Science and Technology 29:960-974.

1995 * Halupa, P. and B.L. Howes. Effects of tidally mediated moisture content on decomposition of Spartina alterniflora and Spartina patens. Marine Biology 123: 379-391.

1994 Taylor, C.D. and B.L. Howes. Effect of sampling frequency on measurements of seasonal primary production and oxygen status in near-shore coastal ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series 108: 193-203.

1994 Howes, B.L. and J.M. Teal. Oxygen loss from Spartina alterniflora and its relation to salt marsh oxygen balance. Oecologia. 97: 431-438.

1994 Howes, B.L. and D.D. Goehringer. Porewater drainage and dissolved organic carbon and nutrient losses through the intertidal creekbanks of a New England salt marsh. Marine Ecology Progress Series 114: 289-301.

1994 * White, D.S. and B.L. Howes. Translocation, remineralization and annual turnover of nitrogen in the roots and rhizomes of Spartina alterniflora. American Journal of Botany 81: 485-495.

1994 * White, D.S. and B.L. Howes. Nitrogen incorporation into decomposing litter of Spartina alterniflora. Limnology and Oceanography 39: 133-139.

1994 * White, D.S. and B.L. Howes. Long-term ¹⁵N-nitrogen retention in the vegetated sediments of a New England salt marsh. Limnology and Oceanography 39: 1878-1892.

1994 * Millham, N.P. and B.L. Howes. Patterns of groundwater discharge to a shallow coastal embayment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 112:155-167.

1994 * Millham, N.P. and B.L. Howes. Freshwater flow into a coastal embayment: groundwater and surface water inputs. Limnology and Oceanography 39: 1928-1944.

1994 * Millham, N.P. and B.L. Howes. A comparison of methods to determine K in a shallow coastal aquifer. Groundwater . 33:49-57.

1993 Teal, J.M., B.L. Howes, S.B. Peterson, J.E. Petersen and A. Armstrong. Nutrient processing in an artificial wetland engineered for high loading: a septage treatment example. Pp. 421-428 In: "Wetlands of the World: Biogeochemistry, Ecological Engineering, Modelling and Management." (W.J. Mitsch and R.E. Turner, eds.). Elsevier, New York.

1993 Taylor, C.D., B.L. Howes and K.W. Doherty. Automated instrumentation for time series measurement of primary production and nutrient status in production platform accessable environments. Marine Technology Society Journal 27(2): 32-44.

1993 Smith, R.L., L.G. Miller and B.L. Howes. The geochemistry of methane in Lake Fryxell, an amictic permanently ice-covered Antarctic lake. Biogeochemistry 21: 95-115.

1993 Burns, K., M. Ehrhardt, B. Howes and C. Taylor. Subtidal benthic community respiration and production rates near the heavily oiled coast of Saudi Arabia. Marine Pollution Bulletin 27: 199-205.

1992 Orson, R.A. and B.L. Howes. Salt marsh development at Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts: Influence of geomorphology on long-term plant community structure. Est. Coast. Shelf. Sci. 35: 453-471.

1992 Howes, B.L., D.R. Schlezinger, D.D. Goehringer and S. Brown-Leger. Carbon cycling in a redox stratified Antarctic Lake, Lake Fryxell. Antarctic Journal 27: 263-265.

1992 Costa, J.E., B.L. Howes, I. Valiela and A.E. Giblin. Monitoring nitrogen and indicators of nitrogen loading to support management action in Buzzards Bay. In: McKenzie et al. (eds) Ecological Indicators, Chapt. 6, pp. 497-529.

1992 Conway, N., B. Howes, C. Cavanaugh, R. Turner, and J. McDowell Capuzzo. Characterization and site description of Solemya borealis, a newly discovered animal-bacteria symbioses. Mar. Biol. 112: 601-613.

1992 * Weiskel, P.K. and B.L. Howes. Differential transport of nitrogen and phosphorus from septic systems through a coastal watershed. Environmental Science and Technology 26: 352-360.

1992 * Arenovski, A.L. and B.L. Howes. Lacunal allocation and gas transport capacity in the salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora. Oecologia 90: 316-322.

1991 Smith, R.L., B.L. Howes and S.P. Garabedian. In situ measurement of methane oxidation in groundwater using natural gradient tracer tests. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 57: 1997-2004.

1991 Smith, R.L., B.L. Howes and J.H. Duff. Denitrification in nitrate-contaminated groundwater: occurrence in steep vertical geochemical gradients. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 55: 1815-1825.

1991 * Weiskel, P.K. and B.L. Howes. Dissolved nitrogen flux through a small coastal watershed. Water Resources Research 27: 2929-2939.

1990 Valiela, I., J. Costa, K. Foreman, J. Teal, B. Howes and D. Aubrey. Groundwater-borne inputs from watersheds to coastal waters. Biogeochemistry 10: 177-198.

1990 Smith, R.L. and B.L. Howes. Bacterial biomass and heterotrophic activity in the water column of an amictic Antarctic Lake. Antarctic Journal . 25:233-235.

1990 Howes, B.L. and R.L. Smith. Sulfur cycling in a permanently ice covered amictic Antarctic Lake, Lake Fryxell. Antarctic Journal . 25: 230-233.

1987 Wakeham, S.G., B.L. Howes, J.W.H. Dacey, R.P. Schwarzenbach and J. Zeyer. Biogeochemistry of dimethylsulfide in a seasonally stratified coastal salt pond. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 51:1675-1684.

1987 Lohrenz, S.E., C.D. Taylor and B.L. Howes. Primary production of protein. II. Algal protein metabolism and its relationship to the composition of particulate organic matter in a well mixed euphotic system. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 40:175-183.

1986 Howes, B.L., J.W.H. Dacey and D.D. Goehringer. Factors controlling the growth form of Spartina alterniflora: feedback between above-ground production, sediment oxidation, nitrogen and salinity. J. Ecol. 74:881-898.

1985 King, G.M., B.L. Howes and J.W.H. Dacey. Short term endproducts of sulfate reduction in a salt marsh: formation of acid volatile sulfides, elemental sulfur and pyrite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 49:1561-1566.

1985 Howes, B.L., J.W.H. Dacey and S.G. Wakeham. Effects of sampling technique on measurements of porewater constituents in salt marsh sediments. Limnol. Oceanogr. 30:221-227.

1985 Howes, B.L., J.W.H. Dacey and J.M. Teal. Annual carbon mineralization and belowground production of Spartina alterniflora in a New England salt marsh. Ecology 66:595-605.

1984 Wakeham, S.G., B.L. Howes and J.W.H. Dacey. Dimethylsulfide in a stratified coastal pond. Nature 310:770-772.

1984 Howes, B.L., J.W.H. Dacey and G.M. King. Carbon flow through oxygen and sulfate reduction pathways in salt marsh sediments. Limnol. Oceanogr. 29:1037-1051.

1984 Dacey, J.W.H., S.G. Wakeham and B.L. Howes. Henry's law constants for dimethylsulfide in freshwater and seawater. Geophys. Res. Letters 11:991-994.

1984 Dacey, J.W.H., and B.L. Howes. Water uptake by roots controls water table movement and sediment oxidation in short Spartina marsh. Science 224:487-489.

1982 Valiela, I., B.L. Howes, R.W. Howarth, A. Giblin, K. Foreman, J.M. Teal and J.E. Hobbie. Regulation of primary production and decomposition in a salt marsh ecosystem. B. Gopal, R. Turner, R. Wetzel and D. Whigham (eds.), Wetlands: Ecology and Management, Proc.Int. Wetl. Conf. New Delhi, pp. 261-290.

1981 Howes, B.L., R. Howarth, J.M. Teal and I. Valiela. Oxidation-Reduction potentials in a salt marsh: spatial patterns and interactions with primary production. Limnol. Oceanogr. 26:350-360.

1980 Lee, C., R.W. Howarth and B.L. Howes. Sterols in decomposing Spartina alterniflora and the use of ergosterol in estimating the contribution of fungi to detrital nitrogen. Limnol. Oceanogr. 25:290-303.

1978 Shisler, J.K., T.L. Schulze and B.L. Howes. The effect of the marsh elder (Iva frutescens) on the standing crop biomass of Spartina patens and associated wildlife. Biol. Cons. 14:159-166.

1976 Ward, D.V., B.L. Howes and D.F. Ludwig. Interactive effects of predation pressure and insecticide (Temefos) toxicity on populations of the marsh fiddler crab Uca pugnax. Mar. Biol. 35:119-126.

1974 Ward, D.V. and B.L. Howes. The effects of Abate, an organophosphorus insecticide, on marsh fiddler crab populations. Bull. Env. Contam. Tox. 12:694-697.

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