Presentations at National and International Meetings:

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich. "Wind-driven across channel circulation in the Neuse River Estuary." IAPSO/IABO conference, October 22, 2001. Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich. "Lateral variability in a shallow, lagoonal estuary and its relationship to fish kills." ERF conference, November 4, 2001. St. Pete Beach, FL.

Fleming, JG, JV Reynolds-Fleming, T Whipple and RA Luettich. "A Portable, Autonomous, vertical profiler for estuarine applications." ERF conference, November 8, 2001. St. Pete Beach, FL.

Paerl, H., B. Peierls, L. J. Fear, Twomey, and J. Bales. 2002. Ecological response of Pamlico Sound, NC to hurricanes Dennis, Floyd and Irene: A glimpse into potential impacts of climate change on large estuaries. Invited talk, Americ. Soc. Limnol. Oceanogr. meetings, Victoria, Canada, June, 2002.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich. "Lateral variability in the upper NRE, NC and its relationship to low DO fish kills." Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, July 8, 2002, Nagasaki, Japan. Invited lecture.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich. "Lateral variability in the upper NRE, NC and its relationship to low DO fish kills." Nagasaki University, July 9, 2002, Nagasaki, Japan. Invited lecture.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich. "The simulation of hydrodynamics in the upper NRE." Alpha Hydraulic Engineering Consultants, Co. Ltd., July 31, 2002, Sapporo, Japan. Invited lecture.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich. "Simulation of the lateral variability in the upper NRE, NC.", Kawasaki Heavy Industries, August 6, 2002, Nishi-Akashi, Japan. Invited lecture.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich. "Lateral variability in a shallow, wind-driven estuary." PECS conference, September 18, 2002, Hamburg, Germany.

Paerl, H., Microbial Ecology at the Forefront of Regional and Global Environmental Change. Plenary Presentation, 8th Society of Aquatic Microbial Ecology meetings, Taormina, Italy, October, 2002.

Paerl, H. 2002. Ecological nutrient thresholds in estuaries: Moving targets influenced by human and climate change. Invited presentation, EPA-Workshop on Ecological Thresholds, Washington, DC, November, 2002.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV. "Lateral variability in the upper NRE, NC and its relationship to low DO fish kills." PhD defense, November 15, 2002, Institute of Marine Sciences.

Paerl, H.W., J. Dyble, M.F. Piehler and P.H. Moisander. 2002. Developing indicators for assessing coastal eutrophication. Invited Seminar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Dec. 2002.

Dyble, J. and H.W. Paerl. 2003. Studies of cyanobacteria in estuarine environments. Invited talk, Environmental Sampler/Processor Workshop. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Monterey, CA, Jan. 2003.

Valdes, L.M., M.F. Piehler, J.L. Pinckney, L. Twomey, and H.W. Paerl. 2003. Historical relationships between phytoplankton taxonomic groups and estuarine dynamics: Developing bio-indicators of ecosystem condition and change. Aquatic Sciences Meeting, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography , Salt Lake City, UT, February 2003.

Paerl, H.W. M.F. Piehler, L.M. Valdes and M.E. Lebo. 2003. Nutrient dynamics and water quality in North Carolina Estauries: Past, present and future. Aquatic Sciences Meeting, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography , Salt Lake City, UT, February 2003.

Paerl, H.W. 2003. The ecological conditions contributing to blue-green algal blooms in North Carolina. Invited Presentation, NC-DENR Workshop: Blue-Green Algae and Public Water Supplies, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, Feb. 2003

Paerl, H.W. 2003. Assessing Estuarine Ecological Change: A Moving Target Influenced by Human and Climatic Perturbations. 4th Ecological Integration Symposium. Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, Feb. 2003.

Paerl, H.W. et al. 2004. “Watershed/Estuary Nutrient Impacts”. Invited Keynote lecture, Special Symposium, “Nutrient Impacts to Coastal Systems”, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ. April 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. Ludwig Lecture. “Human and climatically-induced change of estuarine and coastal ecosystems: What's manageable and what's not?” Ludwig Invited Lecture, Dept. of Oceanography, Old Dominion Univ., April 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. “Scaling up: The next challenge in environmental microbiology”. Invited lecture, Special Session, “Microscope to Macroscope: Scaling Microbial Diversity and Processes from Cells to Planets”, American Society of Microbiology Meetings, New Orleans, LA, May 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. “Managing eutrophication along the estuarine salinity gradient: the case for dual nutrient (N and P) controls. Invited lecture, US EPA Office of Water Seminar Series, Washington, DC, June 2004.

Paerl, H.W. et al. 2004. ”Microalgal Indicators of human and climatically-induced ecological change in estuaries”. Invited talk, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meetings, Savannah, GA, June 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. “Molecular and ecological tools for characterizing bloom forming nuisance cyanobacteria.” Invited lecture, 6 th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria, Bergen, Norway, June 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. Lessons from Hypoxic/Anoxic Systems: Neuse River Estuary. Invited Talk, Symposium on Oxygen Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay Revisited: New Perspectives on Trends, Impacts and Indicators. MD Sea Grant Program, Univ. MD, Adelphi, MD. August 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. “The structure and function of aquatic microbial communities: Is what you see what you get?” Invited Keynote lecture, International Limnological Society Meetings, Lehti, Finland, August 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. “Application of Indicators for Evaluation of National Water Quality Standards”. Invited lecture, US EPA National Water Quality Standards Workshop. Washington DC, Sept. 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. Technical presentation. Application of Indicators to Estuarine Hypoxia Problems. US EPA Region IV, Atlanta, Oct. 2004.

Paerl, H.W. et al. 2004. ”Ecological effects of a recent rise in Atlantic hurricane activity: Putting Hurricane Isabel in perspective”. Pleanary Lecture. Hurricane Isabel in Perspective Symposium. Univ. of MD, IANS, Nov. 2004.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. “Rivers to Estuaries and Coastal Waters: Enabling Indicator Technology” Invited presentation, NSF Workshop, Sensors for Environmental Observatories. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA. Nov. 2004.

Paerl, H.W. et al. 2004. ”Atmospheric nitrogen deposition: An increasingly importnat source of ”new” nitrogen supporting coastal eutrophication. Invited presentation, AGU Fall Meetings, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2004.

Paerl, H.W. et al. 2004. “What environmental factors control nitrogen fixation along the freshwater-marine continuum?” Invited presentation. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Winter meetings, Salt Lake City, UT, Feb. 2004

Paerl, H.W. 2004. “Interpreting microbial indicators in aquatic environments: Is what you see what you get?”. Invited lecture, Univ. of Montana, Dept. of Biological Sciences. Missoula, MT. Feb. 2004.

Noble et al. 2004. Rapid Detection of Enteroviruses in Environmental Samples using Real-time Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase PCR. Invited Speaker, EPA BEACHES National Conference, San Diego, CA. October 2004.

Valdes-Weaver, L. M., M.F. Piehler, J.L. Pinckney, K.E. Howe, K. Rossignol, and H.W. Paerl. Hydrologically driven controls of phytoplankton biomass and community structure in the Neuse River Estuary-Pamlico Sound continuum. To be presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, Norfolk, VA, October 2005.

Whipple A.C., R. Luettich, J.L. Hench, H.E. Seim, Measurements of Reynolds stress and Richardson Number in a Wind Driven Lagoonal Estuary, Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference , Merida, Mexico, October 2004.

Publications:

Luettich, RA, SD Carr, JV Reynolds-FLeming, CW Fulcher, and JE McNinch. "Semi-diurnal seiching in a shallow, micro-tidal lagoonal estuary." Continental Shelf Research, 22(2002):1669-1681.

Paerl, H.W. 2002. Connecting atmospheric deposition to coastal eutrophication. Environmental Science and Technology 36, No.15:323A-326A.

Piehler, M.F., J. Dyble, P.H. Moisander, J.L. Pinckney and H.W. Paerl. 2002. Effects of modified nutrient concentrations and ratios on the structure and function of the native phytoplankton community in the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina USA. Aquatic Ecology 36: 371-385.

Paerl, H.W, R. L. Dennis and D. R. Whitall. 2002. Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen: Implications for nutrient over-enrichment of coastal waters. Estuaries 25:677-693.

Paerl, H.W. J. Dyble, L. Twomey, J. L. Pinckney, J. Nelson and L. Kerkhof. 2002. Characterizing man-made and natural modifications of microbial diversity and activity in coastal ecosystems: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 81:487-507.

Paerl, H., J. Dyble, P. Moisander, R. Noble, M. Piehler, J. Pinckney, T. Steppe, L. Twomey and L. Valdes. 2002. Microbial Indicators of Aquatic Ecosystem Change: Current Applications to Eutrophication Studies. In: L. Giuliano & R. Conrad (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Society of Aquatic Microbial Ecology meetings, FEMS (in press).

Reynolds-Fleming, JV, JG Fleming, and RA Luettich."Portable, autonomous vertical profiler for estuarine applications." Estuaries, 2002, 25(1):142-147.

Buzzelli, C.P., Ramus, J.R. and Paerl, H.W. (2003) Ferry-based monitoring of surface water quality in North Carolina estuaries. Estuaries (in press).

Paerl, H.W., L.M. Valdes, J.L. Pinckney, M.F. Piehler, J. Dyble and P.H. Moisander. 2003. Phytoplankton photopigments as indicators of estuarine and coastal eutrophication. Bioscience (submitted).

Reynolds-Fleming, JV. "The hydrodynamics of the upper NRE and their influence on dissolved oxygen distribution." PhD dissertation. 2003.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich, Jr. "Wind-driven lateral variability in the upper Neuse River Estuary and its effect on fish kills." submitted to Continental Shelf Research.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich, Jr. "Lateral variability of dissolved oxygen and density in a shallow, partially mixed estuary.", in prep for Estuaries.

Reynolds-Fleming, JV and RA Luettich, Jr. "Simulation of lateral salinity variability in a shallow, wind-driven estuary affected by fish kills." ,in prep for Ocean Dynamics.

Paerl, H.W., L.M. Valdes, M.F. Piehler and M.E. Lebo. 2004. Solving problems resulting from solutions: The evolution of a dual nutrient management strategy for the eutrophying Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA. Environmental Science & Technology 38: 3068-3073.

Niemi, G., D. Wardrop, R. Brooks, S. Anderson, V. Brady, H. Paerl, C. Rakocinski, M. Brouwer, B. Levinson, and M. McDonald. 2004. Rationale for a new generation of indicators for coastal waters. Environmental Health Perspectives 112:979-986.

Swackhamer, D.L., H.W. Paerl, S.J. Eisenreich, J. Hurley, K.C. Hornbuckle, M. McLachlan, D. Mount, D. Muir, and D. Schindler. 2004. Impacts of atmospheric pollutant on aquatic ecosystems. Issues in Ecology 12, Ecological Society of America, Washington, DC.

Fear, J. T. Gallo, N.Hall, J. Loftin and H. Paerl. 2004. Predicting benthic microalgal oxygen and nutrient flux responses to a nutrient reduction management strategy for the eutrophic Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 61:491-506.

Paerl, H.W. 2004. Estuarine eutrophication, hypoxia and anoxia dynamics: Causes, consequences and controls. Pp. 35-56, In , Rupp, G.L. and M. D. White. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Fish Physiology, Toxicology and Water Quality.  May 12-15, 2003, Tallinn, Estonia.  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, Ecosystems Research Division, Athens, Georgia, USA. EPA/600/R-04/049.

Piehler, M.F., L.J. Twomey, N.S. Hall and H.W. Paerl.  2004.  Impacts of inorganic nutrient enrichment on the phytoplankton community structure and function in Pamlico Sound, NC USA.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 61:197-207.

Paerl, H. W., J. Dyble, J.L. Pinckney, L.M. Valdes, D.F. Millie, P.H. Moisander, J.T. Morris, B. Bendis, B., and M.F. Piehler. 2005. Using microalgal indicators to assess human and climactically-induced ecological change in estuaries. In S. Bartone (Ed.) Proceedings of the Estuarine Indicators Workshop . Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.

Vähätalo, A. V., R.G. Wetzel and H.W. Paerl. 2005. Light adsorption by phytoplankton and chromatophoric dissolved organic matter in the drainage basin and estuary of the Neuse River, North Carolina (USA). Freshwater Biology 50:477-493.

Paerl, H.W., L.M. Valdes, J.E, Adolf, B.M. Peierls and L.W. Harding Jr. 2005. Anthropogenic and climatic influences on the eutrophication of large estuarine ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography. (in press).

Groffman, P. J. Baron, T. Blett, A.Gold, I. Goodman, L. Gunderson, B. Levinson, M. Palmer, H. Paerl, G. Peterson, N. Poff, D. Rejeski, J. Reynolds, M. Turner, K. Weathers, J. Wiens. 2005. Ecological thresholds:  The key to successful environmental management or an important concept with no practical application? Ecosystems (in press).

Paerl, H.W., L.M. Valdes, M.F. Piehler and C. A. Stow. 2005. Assessing the effects of nutrient management in an estuary experiencing climatic change: the Neuse River Estuary, NC, USA. Environmental Management (in press).

Paerl, H.W., M.F. Piehler, L.M. Valdes, J. Dyble, P.H. Moisander, J.L. Pickney & T.S. Steppe. Determining anthropogenic and climatically-induced change in aquatic ecosystems using microbial indicators: An integrative approach. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. (In Press).

Valdes-Weaver, L.M., M.F. Piehler, J.L. Pinckney, K.E. Howe & K. Rossignol. Long-term temporal and spatial patterns of phytoplankton community structure in a hydrologically variable estuarine continuum: The Neuse River Estuary-Pamlico Sound, NC, USA. Limnology and Oceanography (Submitted).

Whipple, A.C., R.A. Luettich, Jr., H.E. Seim, Measurements of Reynolds stress in a Wind Driven Lagoonal Estuary. Submitted to Ocean Dynamics.

Other notable accomplishments:

Hans W. Paerl was awarded the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) at their annual meeting on February 8-14, 2003.
The G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award has been presented annually by ASLO since 1982 to recognize excellence in any aspect of limnology or oceanography. The award is intended to symbolize the quality and innovations toward which the society strives and to remind its members of these goals. In lending his name to the award, Hutchinson asked that recipients be scientists who had made considerable contributions to knowledge, and whose future work promised a continuing legacy of scientific excellence.
Emphasis in selection for this award is given to mid-career scientists for work accomplished during the preceding 5-10 years.

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