Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
A world leader in marine biological research with focus on coral reef science and shark conservation, The Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Oceanographic Center has been at the forefront of graduate and undergraduate marine science education and oceanographic research for over 49 years. Students, scientists, faculty and staff come to the Center from all corners of the globe, with the common goal of learning from the ocean's living classrooms - in one of the most diverse ecosystems known to man.
The Oceanographic Center serves as a national, regional, and community resource for information. There are several institutes, the National Coral Reef Institute for research and training on coral reef assessment, monitoring, and restoration; the Guy Harvey Research Institute for fish research and conservation, and the Save Our Seas Shark Center specializing in shark studies. The Center also implements the Broward County Sea Turtle Renesting Program. The Center's facilities include a research library for the many disciplines of marine science, conference room, classrooms, staging area, electron microscopy laboratory, darkroom, machine shop, physical oceanography laboratory, computer center, wetlab/classroom coral workshop, filtered seawater facility and research laboratories.
Submissions from 2004
Vanishing Horizontal Sea Surface Temperature Gradients at Low Wind Speeds, Kristina B. Katsaros and Alexander Soloviev
Evidence of Shark Predation and Scavenging on Fishes Equipped with Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags, David W. Kerstetter, J. Polovina, and John E. Graves
Nutrient and Growth Dynamics of Halimeda tuna on Conch Reef, Florida Keys: Possible Influence of Internal Tides on Nutrient Status and Physiology, Jennifer E. Smith, Celia M. Smith, Peter S. Vroom, Kevin L. Beach, and Steven Miller
New Species of Eustomias (Teleostei: Stomiidae) from the Western North Atlantic, with a Review of the Subgenus Neostomias, Tracey Sutton and Karsten E. Hartel
The Skeleton Eroding Band Disease on Coral Reefs of Aqaba, Red Sea, Robert Winkler, Arnfried Antonius, and Dorothy-Ellen A. Renegar
Submissions from 2003
Multi-Site Evaluation of IKONOS Data for Classification of Tropical Coral Reef Environments, Serge Andrefouet, Philip Kramer, Damaris Torres-Pulliza, Karen E. Joyce, Eric J. Hochberg, Rodrigo Garza-Perez, Peter J. Mumby, Bernhard Riegl, Hiroya Yamano, William H. White, Mayalen Zubia, John C. Brock, Stuart R. Phinn, Abdulla Naseer, Bruce G. Hatcher, and Frank E. Muller-Karger
A Monte Carlo Demographic Analysis of the Silky Shark (Carcharhinus falciformis): Implications of Gear Selectivity, Lawrence R. Beerkircher, Mahmood S. Shivji, and Enric Cortes
Circadian Variation of Brain Histamine in Goldfish, Tiffany A. Burns, Joseph P. Huston, and Richard E. Spieler
Feeding Ecology, Age, Growth and Sexual Cycle of the Portuguese Sole, Synaptura lusitanica, Henrique Cabral, Ana Isabel Catarino, Joana Figueiredo, Joana Garcia, and Miguel Henriques
Genetic and Morphological Variation of Synaptura lusitanica Capello, 1868, along the Portuguese Coast, Henrique Cabral, Joana F. Marques, Ana Luisa Rego, Ana Isabel Catarino, Joana Figueiredo, and Joana Garcia
Diel Movement Patterns of the Hawaiian Stingray, Dasyatis Lata: Implications for Ecological Interactions between Sympatric Elasmobranch Species, Daniel P. Cartamil, Jeremy Vaudo, Christopher G. Lowe, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Kim N. Holland
A Streamlined, Bi-Organelle, Multiplex PCR Approach to Species Identification: Application to Global Conservation and Trade Monitoring of the Great White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Demian D. Chapman, Debra Abercrombie, Christophe J. Douady, Ellen K. Pikitch, Michael Stanhope, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Mating Behavior of Southern Stingrays, Dasyatis americana (Dasyatidae), Demian D. Chapman, Mark John Corcoran, Guy Harvey, Sonita Malan, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Histidine-Decarboxylase Knockout Mice Show Deficient Nonreinforced Episodic Object Memory, Improved Negatively Reinforced Water-Maze Performance, and Increased Neo- and Ventro-Striatal Dopamine Turnover, Ekrem Dere, Maria A. De Souza-Silva, Bianca Topic, Richard E. Spieler, Helmut L. Haas, and Joseph P. Huston
A Rapid Assessment of Coral Reefs Near Hopetown, Abaco Islands, Bahamas (Stony Corals and Algae), Joshua Feingold, Susan L. Thornton, Kenneth W. Banks, Nancy J. Gasman, David S. Gilliam, Pamela Fletcher, and Christian L. Avila
Case 3270: Isometrinae Clark, 1917 (Ecinodermata, Crinoidea): Proposed Emendation of Spelling to Isometrainae to Remove Homonymy with Isometrinae Kraepelin, 1891 (Arachnida, Scorpiones), Victor Fet and Charles G. Messing
Benthic Habitat Mapping in the Tortugas Region, Florida, E. Franklin, Jerald Ault, Steven G. Smith, Jiangang Luo, G. Meester, Guillermo A. Diaz, Mark Chiappone, Dione W. Swanson, Steven Miller, and James A. Bohnsack
Effects of Light Adaptation on the Temporal Resolution of Deep-sea Crustaceans, Tamara M. Frank
Growth and Survivorship of Stony Coral Meandrina meandrites and Montastrea cavernosa Transplants to an Artificial Reef Environment: A Work in Progress, E. A. Glynn, T. Patrick Quinn, Daniel P. Fahy, Richard E. Dodge, David S. Gilliam, and Richard E. Spieler
CoralXDS - Coral X-radiograph Densitometry System, Kevin P. Helmle, Kevin E. Kohler, and Richard E. Dodge
Assessment of the Coral Reefs of the Turks and Caicos Islands (Part 2: Fish Communities), Kaho Hoshino, Marilyn Brandt, Carrie Manfrino, Bernhard Riegl, and Sascha C. C. Steiner
Foraging by the Mud Snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say), Modulates Spatial Variation in Benthic Community Structure, Brendan P. Kelaher, Jeffrey S. Levinton, and J. Matthew Hoch
Reviewed Work(s): Electronic Tagging and Tracking in Marine Fisheries., David W. Kerstetter
Use of Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags to Demonstrate Survival of Blue Marlin (Makaira nigricans) Released from Pelagic Longline Gear, David W. Kerstetter, Brian E. Luckhurst, Eric Prince, and John E. Graves
An Annotated Checklist and Key to the Crinoidea of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, Lisa Kirkendale and Charles G. Messing
Episodic Nutrient Transport to Florida Coral Reefs, James J. Leichter, Hannah L. Stewart, and Steven Miller
Status of Coral Reefs of Little Cayman, Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac, British West Indies, in 1999 and 2000 (Part 1: Stony Corals and Algae), Carrie Manfrino, Bernhard Riegl, Jerome L. Hall, and Robert Graifman
Three New Species of Comasteridae Echinodermata, Crinoidea from the Tropical Western Pacific, Charles G. Messing
Unique Morphology in the Living Bathyal Feather Star, Atelecrinus (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), Charles G. Messing
Pavements of Siderastrea radians on Cape Verde Reefs, Chris S. Moses, Kevin P. Helmle, Peter K. Swart, Richard E. Dodge, and S. E. Merino
Spatial Patterns and Ecology of Benthic Communities on a High-Latitude South Florida (Broward County, USA) Reef System, Ryan P. Moyer, Bernhard Riegl, Kenneth Banks, and Richard E. Dodge
Vertical Versus Horizontal Growth Strategies of Coral Frameworks (Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia), W. E. Piller and Bernhard Riegl
Hypothesis-based Restoration Study For Mitigation of a Damaged SE Florida Coral Reef: A Work in Progress, T. Patrick Quinn, E. A. Glynn, Richard E. Dodge, Kenneth Banks, L. E. Fisher, and Richard E. Spieler
Climate Change and Coral Reefs: Different Effects in Two High-Latitude Areas (Arabian Gulf, South Africa), Bernhard Riegl
Halofolliculina Skeleton Eroding Band (SEB): A Coral Disease with Fossilization Potential?, Bernhard Riegl and Arnfried Antonius
Assessment of the Coral Reefs of the Turks and Caicos Islands (Part 1: Stony Corals and Algae), Bernhard Riegl, Carrie Manfrino, Casey Hermoyian, Marilyn Brandt, and Kaho Hoshino
Possible Refugia for Reefs in Times of Environmental Stress, Bernhard Riegl and Werner Piller
Observation of Wave-Enhanced Turbulence in the Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean During TOGA COARE, Alexander Soloviev and Roger Lukas
Energetic Baroclinic Super-Tidal Oscillations on the Southeast Florida shelf, Alexander Soloviev, Mark E. Luther, and Robert H. Weisberg
Coastal Observatory Investigates Energetic Current Oscillations on Southeast Florida Shelf, Alexander Soloviev, Rebekah J. Walker, Robert H. Weisberg, and Mark E. Luther
Structural rRNA Characters Support Monophyly of Raptorial Limbs and Paraphyly of Limb Specialization in Water Fleas, Timothy D. Swain and Derek J. Taylor
High-Latitude Acropora cervicornis Thickets Off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, James Darwin Thomas, and S. Michael Hoke
SFOMC: A successful navy and academic partnership providing sustained ocean observation capabilities in the Florida straits, William Venezia, William Baxley, Peter Tatro, Manhar Dhanak, Rick Driscoll, Pierre Philippe Beaujean, Steven Shock, Stewart Glegg, Edgar An, Mark Luther, Bob Weisberg, Harry DeFerrari, Neil Williams, Hien Nguyen, Nick Shay, John Van Leer, Richard Dodge, Dave Gilliam, Alexander Soloviev, Shirley Pomponi, Michael Crane, and Kevin Carter
Phytoplankton Response to Intrusions of Slope Water on the West Florida Shelf: Models and Observations, John J. Walsh, Robert H. Weisberg, Dwight A. Dieterle, Ruoying He, Brian P. Darrow, Jason K. Jolliff, Kristen M. Lester, Gabriel A. Vargo, Gary J. Kirkpatrick, Kent A. Fanning, Tracey Sutton, Ann E. Jochens, Douglas C. Biggs, Bisman Nababan, Chuanmin Hu, and Frank E. Muller-Karger
Submissions from 2002
Special Issue of Coral Reefs, on Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs, Serge Andrefouet and Bernhard Riegl
Characteristics of Shark Bycatch Observed on Pelagic Longlines Off the Southeastern United States, 1992-2000, Lawrence R. Beerkircher, Enric Cortes, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Density, Spatial Distribution and Size Structure of Sea Urchins in Florida Keys Coral Reef and Hard-Bottom Habitats, Mark Chiappone, Dione W. Swanson, and Steven Miller
Large-Scale Surveys on the Florida Reef Tract Indicate Poor Recovery of the Long-Spined Sea Urchin Diadema antillarum, Mark Chiappone, Dione W. Swanson, Steven Miller, and S. G. Smith
Occurrence and Biological Impacts of Fishing Gear and Other Marine Debris in the Florida Keys, Mark Chiappone, A. White, Dione W. Swanson, and Steven Miller
Effects of a Decrease in Downwelling Irradiance on the Daytime Vertical Distribution Patterns of Zooplankton and Micronekton, Tamara M. Frank and Edith A. Widder
Functional morphology of coral shape and passive hydrodynamic self-righting in recent Manicina areolata, Bernhard Hubmann, Werner E. Piller, and Bernhard Riegl
Effects of the 1996 and 1998 Positive Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies on Corals, Coral Diseases and Fish in the Arabian Gulf (Dubai, UAE), Bernhard Riegl
Artificial Keys to the Genera of Living Stalked Crinoids (Echinodermata), Michel Roux, Charles G. Messing, and Nadia Améziane
Air-Sea Gas Exchange: Cool Skin and Gas Transfer Velocity in the North Atlantic Ocean During GasEx-98, P. Schlussel and Alexander Soloviev
Very High-Frequency Radar Mapping of Surface Currents, Lynn K. Shay, Thomas M. Cook, Hartmut Peters, Arthur Mariano, Robert H. Weisberg, P. Edgar An, Alexander Soloviev, and Mark E. Luther
Sharp Frontal Interfaces in the Near-Surface Layer of the Tropical Ocean, Alexander Soloviev, Roger Lukas, and Hiroshi Matsuura
Sexual Reproduction of Acropora cervicornis in Nearshore Waters Off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel and James Darwin Thomas
In Situ Observations on Three Species of Large-Finned Deep-Sea Squids, M. Vecchione, C. F. E. Roper, Edith A. Widder, and Tamara M. Frank
Fish Assemblages Associated with Artificial Reefs of Concrete Aggregates or Quarry Stone Offshore Miami Beach, Florida, USA, Brian K. Walker, Bruce Henderson, and Richard E. Spieler
Submissions from 2001
A Century of Environmental Variability in Oyster Bay Using Ostracode Ecological and Isotopic Data as Paleoenvironmental Tools, Carlos A. Alvarez-Zarikian, Peter Koenraad Swart, Terri Hood, Patricia Blackwelder, Terry A. Nelsen, and Charles Featherstone
Comparatively High Densities of the Long-Spined Sea Urchin in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, Mark Chiappone, Steven Miller, Dione W. Swanson, Jerald Ault, and S. G. Smith
Responses of Three Coral Communities to the 1997–98 El Niño–Southern Oscillation: Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, Joshua S. Feingold
Temporal Records of δ13C and δ15N in North Pacific Pinnipeds: Inferences Regarding Environmental Change and Diet, Amy Hirons, Donald M. Schell, and Bruce P. Finney
Growth Rates of Vibrissae of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) and Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus), Amy Hirons, Donald M. Schell, and David J. St. Aubin
Review of the Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico, Edward O. Keith
Serological Changes Associated with Gill-Net Capture and Restraint in Three Species of Sharks, C. Manire, R. Hueter, Eric V. Hull, and Richard E. Spieler
A Revision of the Zenometridae (new rank) (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Comatulidina), Charles G. Messing and Christopher M. White
An Extensive Deep Reef Terrace on the Tortugas Bank, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Steven Miller, Mark Chiappone, Dione W. Swanson, Jerald Ault, S. G. Smith, G. Meester, J. Luo, E. Franklin, James A. Bohnsack, Doug Harper, and David B. McClellan
Applying Habitat Equivalency Analysis for Coral Reef Damage Assessment and Restoration, J. Walter Milon and Richard E. Dodge (editor)
Rapid and Simultaneous Identification of Body Parts from the Morphologically Similar Sharks Carcharhinus obscurus and Carcharhinus plumbeus (Carcharhinidae) Using Multiplex PCR, Melissa Pank, Michael Stanhope, Lisa Natanson, Nancy Kohler, and Mahmood S. Shivji
A Preliminary Checklist of the Shallow-Water Crinoids of the Kerama Islands, Okinawa, Japan., Nicolas J. Pilcher and Charles G. Messing
Degradation of Reef Structure, Coral and Fish Communities in the Red Sea by Ship Groundings and Dynamite Fisheries, Bernhard Riegl
Mapping and Monitoring of Coral Communities and Their Spatial Patterns Using a Surface-Based Video Method from a Vessel, Bernhard Riegl, Jan L. Korrubel, and Charles Martin
Cryptic Tissues Inside Acropora Frameworks (Indonesia): A Mechanism to Enhance Tissue Survival in Hard Times While Also Increasing Framework Density, Bernhard Riegl and Werner Pillar
Soft Coral Mimesis by an Aeolidiid Nudibranch, Bernhard Riegl and Josef Schaffelner
A System for High-Resolution Zooplankton Imaging, Scott Samson, T. L. Hopkins, Andrew Remsen, Lawrence Langebrake, Tracey Sutton, and Jim Patten
Site-Dependent Differences in Artificial Reef Function: Implications for Coral Reef Restoration, Robin L. Sherman, David S. Gilliam, and Richard E. Spieler
An Approach to Parameterization of the Oceanic Turbulent Boundary Layer in the Western Pacific Warm Pool, Alexander Soloviev, Roger Lukas, and Peter Hacker
Environmental Analysis of Cores from the Helike Delta, Gulf of Corinth, Greece, S. Soter, Patricia Blackwelder, C. Tziavos, D. Katsonopoulou, Terri Hood, and Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian
Circadian Timing of Meal Feeding and Growth in Fishes, Richard E. Spieler
Artificial Substrate and Coral Reef Restoration: What Do We Need to Know to Know What We Need, Richard E. Spieler, David S. Gilliam, and Robin L. Sherman
Multisensor Sampling of Pelagic Ecosystem Variables in a Coastal Environment to Estimate Zooplankton Grazing Impact, Tracey Sutton, T. L. Hopkins, Andrew Remsen, and Scott Burghhart
NCRI 3-D Visualization of Coral Reef Habitat, Brian K. Walker
Gross Brain Morphology in the Yellow Stingray, Urobatis jamaicensis, Brian K. Walker and Robin L. Sherman
The Speed of an Isolume: A Shrimp's Eye View, Edith A. Widder and Tamara M. Frank
Submissions from 2000
Temporal Resolution in Mesopelagic Crustaceans, Tamara M. Frank
ACTH4 -10, Substance P, and Dizolcipine (Mk-801) Accelerate Functional Recovery After Hemilabyrinthectomy in Goldfish, Rosana Mattioli, Joseph P. Huston, and Richard E. Spieler
VHF Radar Detects Oceanic Submesoscale Vortex Along Florida Coast, Lynn K. Shay, Thomas M. Cook, Brian K. Haus, Jorge Martinez, Hartmut Peters, Arthur Mariano, John VanLeer, Edgar An, Samuel Smith, Alexander Soloviev, Robert H. Weisberg, and Mark E. Luther
Horizontal Structure of the Upper Ocean Velocity and Density Fields in the Western Equatorial Pacific Warm Pool: Depth Range from 20 to 250 m, Alexander Soloviev, Roger Lukas, and Peter Hacker
Submissions from 1999
Comparative Study of Temporal Resolution in the Visual Systems of Mesopelagic Crustaceans, Tamara M. Frank
Comparative Study of the Spectral Sensitivities of Mesopelagic Crustaceans, Tamara M. Frank and Edith A. Widder
Ultrastructural Analysis of Folliculogenesis in the Ovary of the Yellow Spotted Stingray, Urolophus jamaicensis, William C. Hamlett, M. Jezior, and Richard E. Spieler
The Daily Feeding Rhythm to Demand Feeders and the Effects of Timed Meal-Feeding on the Growth of Juvenile Florida Pompano, Trachinotus carolinus, Matthew J. Heilman and Richard E. Spieler
Algal Blooms on Coral Reefs: What Are the Causes?, Terry Hughes, Alina Szmant, Robert S. Steneck, Robert Carpenter, and Steven Miller
Predicting High-Frequency Upwelling: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Temperature Anomalies on a Florida Coral Reef, James Leichter and Steven Miller
Spectral Sensitivity of Vision and Bioluminescence in the Midwater Shrimp Sergestes similis, S. M. Lindsay, Tamara M. Frank, J. Kent, and Michael I. Latz
Molecular Techniques Reveal Wide Phyletic Diversity of Heterotrophic Microbes Associated with Discodermia spp. (Porifera: Demospongiae), Jose V. Lopez, Peter J. McCarthy, Kathleen E. Janda, Robin Willoughby, and Shirley A. Pomponi
Lack of Chemical Defense in Two Species of Stalked Crinoids: Support for the Predation Hypothesis for Mesozoic Bathymetric Restriction, James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, Tomasz K. Baumiller, and Charles G. Messing
Effects of Nutrients versus Herbivores on Reef Algae: A New Method for Manipulating Nutrients on Coral Reefs, M. W. Miller, M. E. Hay, Steven Miller, D. Malone, E. E. Sotka, and Alina Szmant