MONOGRAPHS: (Refereed)

1996 Howes, B.L. and D.D. Goehringer. The Ecology of Buzzards Bay: An Estuarine Profile. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Report 31, January 1996.

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PAPERS SUBMITTED:

Costa, J.E., B.L. Howes, D. Janik, D.G. Aubrey, E. Gunn and A.E. Giblin. Managing anthropogenic nitrogen inputs to sensitive embayments: Technical basis of a management strategy adopted for Buzzards Bay.

Schlezinger, D.R. and B.L. Howes. Dissolved oxygen balance of the upper Charles River. Environmental Science and Technology

Weiskel, P.K. and B.L. Howes. Measurement of hydraulic head in wetland sediments. Submitted to Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science.

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TESTIMONY:

2001 Prefiled Direct Testimony Regarding Nutrients and Health of the Eel River System and the Town of Plymouth Wastewater Treatment Plant, DEP Docket No. 2000-091.

1993 Statement to the Subcommittee on Science, Committee on Science, Space and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on the Antarctic Environmental Protection Act of 1993, Congressional Record February 23, 1993.

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

2002 Dyer, M., E. Conde, C. Murray, B. Howes, C. Taylor, T. Pedersen, R. Beckham. Performance Tests for Alternative Ballast Water Treatment. U.S. Coastal Guard Research and Development Center Report.

1998 Cibik, S.J., K.B. Lemieux, B.L. Howes, C.D. Taylor, C.S. Davis, T.C. Loder and R.D. Boudrow. 1996 Annual water column monitoring report. Mass. Water Resources Authority. 240 pp.

1998 Howes, B.L. Sediment metabolism within Massachusetts Bay and Boston Harbor: relating to system stability and sediment-watercolumn exchanges of nutrients and oxygen in 1996. Mass. Water Resources Authority Environmental Quality Report pp.85.

1998 * DeSimone, L.A., B.L. Howes, D.D. Goehringer and P.K. Weiskel. 1998. Wetland plants and algae in a coastal marsh, Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 98-4011, 33pp.

1997 Howes, B.L. Sediment metabolism within Massachusetts Bay and Boston Harbor: relating to sediment water column exchanges of nutrients and oxygen in 1995. Mass. Water Resources Authority. 70 pp.

1997 Bowen, J.D., R.A. Zavistoski, S.J. Cibik, T.J. Loder, B.L. Howes and C.D. Taylor. 1997. Combined work/quality assurance plan for baseline water quality monitoring: 1995-1997. MWRA Environmental Qaulity Dept. Misc. Rpt. No. MS-45. Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Boston, MA. 93pp.

1996 Cibik, S.J., B.L. Howes, C.D. Taylor, D.M. Anderson, C.S. Davis, T.C. Loder and J.D. Bowen. Annual water column monitoring report. MWRA Environmental Quality Department Technical Report Series No. 96-7. Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Boston, MA. 200 pp.

1996 * Weiskel, P.K., L.A. DeSimone and B.L. Howes. Transport of Wastewater nitrogen through a coastal aquifer and marsh, Orleans, MA, 1988-1995. U.S.G.S. Open-File Report 96-111. Reston, Virginia.

1996 * DeSimone, L.A., P.M. Barlow and B.L. Howes. Hydrogeologic, water quality and geochemical data for the glacial aquifer at the site of a septage-treatment facility, Orleans, Massachusetts, October 1988 through December 1992. U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 2456, 89 pp.

1995 * Weiskel, P.K., B.L. Howes, J.B. Smith and L.A. DeSimone. Hydrogeologic field methods for coastal wetlands investigations. Proceedings: Society of Wetlands Scientists 16th Annual Meeting. Cambridge, MA p. 60-61.

1995 * DeSimone, L.A., P.M. Barlow and B.L. Howes. A nitrogen righ septage-effluent plume in a glacial aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, February 1990 through December 1992. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-290, 92 pp.

1995 * DeSimone, L.A. and B.L. Howes. Hydrogeologic, water quality and geochemical data for the glacial aquifer at the site of a septage-treatment facility, Orleans, Massachusetts, October 1988 through December 1992. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 95-439.

1995 Cibik, S.J. and B.L. Howes. Combined Work/Quality Assurance Project Plan for Benthic Nutrient Flux Study: 1995-1997. Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, 38 pp.

1991 Smith, R.L., B.L. Howes and S.P. Garabedian. In situ measurement of methane oxidation in groundwater using natural gradient tracer tests. U.S.G.S. Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Technical Meeting. Water Res. Inv. Rept. 91-4034.

1991 Smith, R.L., B.L. Howes and J.H. Duff. Effects of denitrification on nitrogen geochemistry in a nitrate-contaminated sand and gravel aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. U.S.G.S. Toxic Substances Hydrology Program. Water Res. Inv. Rept. 91-4034.

1991 Howes, B.L., P.D. Fucile and W.D. Spencer. Antarctic water level and ice ablation instrumentation. Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society.

1991 Howes, B.L. and J.M. Teal. Nitrogen balance in a Massachusetts cranberry bog. EPA Publ. Buzzards Bay Project 91-000.

1989 Smith, R.L., B.L. Howes & J.H. Duff. Use of tracer tests to measure the transport and consumption of methane in a contaminated aquifer. U.S.G.S. Toxic Substances Hydrology Program: Proc. of the Technical Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona. Water Res. Inv. Rept. 88-4220.

1987 Smith, R.L., J.H. Duff & B.L. Howes. Development of techniques to measure in situ rates of microbial processes in a contaminated aquifer. U.S.G.S. Program on Toxic Waste - Groundwater Contamination: Proc. of the Third Technical Meeting, Pensacola, Florida. Open File Rept. 87-109.

1987 Harvey, R.W., L.H. George, R.L. Smith, D.R. LeBlanc, S.P. Garabedian and B.L. Howes. Transport of bacteria through a contaminated freshwater aquifer. U.S.G.S. Program on Toxic Waste - Groundwater Contamination: Proc. Third Tech. Meeting, Pensacola, Fla. Open File Rept. 87-109.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION:

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

Howes, B.L., C.D. Taylor and D.D. Goehringer. Seasonal cycles in nutrient levels and photosynthesis in a permanently ice-covered Antarctic Dry Valley Lake.

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

CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUM CONVENOR:

with R.L. Smith American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Mtg 1990.

“Shallow Embayments” with S.W. Nixon for Estuarine Research Federation Mtg. 1993.

“Coastal Marsh Research Symposium” - MA Wetland Restoration Program Mtg. 2000.

New England Estuarine Research Society Meeting (organizing committee) Spring 2003.

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