Publications

Paerl, H.W., J. D. Bales, L.W. Ausley, C.P. Buzzelli, L.B. Crowder, L.A. Eby, J. M. Fear, M. Go, B.L. Peierls, T.L. Richardson and J.S. Ramus . 2001. Ecosystem impacts of 3 sequential hurricanes (Dennis, Floyd and Irene) on the US's largest lagoonal estuary, Pamlico Sound , NC . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98(10):5655-5660.

Buzzelli, C.P., Ramus, J.R. and Paerl, H.W. 2003 Ferry-based monitoring of surface water quality in North Carolina estuaries. Estuaries 26:975-984.

Paerl, H.W., J. Dyble, P.H. Moisander, R.T. Noble, M.F. Piehler, J.T. Pinckney, L. Twomey and L.M. Valdes. 2003. Microbial Indicators of Aquatic Ecosystem Change: Current Applications to Eutrophication Studies. FEMS Microbial Ecology 46 (3):233-246.

Peierls, B.L., R.R. Christian and H.W. Paerl. 2003. Water Quality and phytoplankton as indicators of hurricane impacts on a large estuarine ecosystem. Estuaries 26:1329-1343.

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.

Christian, R. R., J. E. O'Neal, B.Peierls, L.M. Valdes, and H. W. Paerl. 2004. Episodic Nutrient Loading Impacts on Eutrophication of The Southern Pamlico Sound : The Effects of the 1999 Hurricanes. UNC Water Resources Research Institute Report No. 349, UNC Water Resources Research Institute, Raleigh , NC .

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. Pp. 145-174, In S. Bartone (Ed.) Proceedings of the Estuarine Indicators Workshop . Boca Raton , Florida : CRC Press, Orlando.

Paerl, H.W., M.F. Piehler, L.M. Valdes, J. Dyble, P.H. Moisander, J.L. Pinckney and T.F. Steppe. 2005. Determining anthropogenic and climatically-induced change in aquatic ecosystems using microbial indicators: An integrative approach. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 29:89-133.

Paerl, H.W. 2005. Assessing and managing nutrient-enhanced eutrophication in estuarine and coastal waters: Interactive effects of human and climatic perturbations. Ecological Engineering 26:40-54.

Paerl, H.W. 2005. Ecological effects of a recent rise in Atlantic hurricane activity on North Carolina 's Pamlico Sound System: Putting Hurricane Isabel in perspective. P. 3-18, In, K.G. Sellner (ed.), Hurricane Isabel in Perspective. Chesapeake research Consortium, CRC Publications 05-160, Edgewater , MD.

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.

Paerl, H.W., L.M. Valdes, M.F. Piehler and C. A. Stow. 2006. Assessing the effects of nutrient management in an estuary experiencing climatic change: the Neuse River Estuary, NC, USA . Environmental Management 37:422-436.

Ensign, S.H. and HW. Paerl. 2006. Developing an unattended estuarine nutrient monitoring program using ferries as data-collecting platforms. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 4:70-76.

Paerl, H.W., L.M. Valdes, A.R. Joyner, B.L. Peierls, C.P. Buzzelli, M. F. Piehler, S.R. Riggs, R R. Christian, J.S. Ramus, E.J. Clesceri, L.A. Eby, L.W. Crowder, and R.A. Luettich . 2006. Ecological response to hurricane events in the Pamlico Sound System, NC and implications for assessment and management in a regime of increased frequency. Estuaries 29: 1033-1045.

Valdes-Weaver, L.M., M.F. Piehler, J.L. Pinckney, K.E. Howe, K. Rosignol, and H.W. Paerl. 2006. Long-term temporal and spatial trends in phytoplankton biomass and class-level taxonomic composition in the hydrologically variable Neuse-Pamlico estuarine continuum, NC, USA . Limnology and Ocea nography 51(3): 1410-1420.

Millie, D.F., G.R. Weckman, H.W. Paerl, J.L. Pinckney, B.J. Bendis, R.J. Pigg, and G.L. Fahnenstiel. 2006. Neural network modeling of estuarine indicators: hindcasting phytoplankton biomass and net ecosystem production in the Neuse ( North Carolina ) and Trout ( Florida ) Rivers. Ecological Indicators. 6: 589-608 .

Paerl, H.W., L.M. Valdes, A.R. Joyner, and V. Winkelmann. 2006. Phytoplankton Indicators of Ecological Change in the Nutrient and Climatically-Impacted Neuse River-Pamlico Sound System, North Carolina . Ecological Applications (in press).