Scott Nixon
Educational Background
| Ph.D., Botany (Ecology) B.A., Biology (Chemistry) |
Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Univ. of Delaware |
1970 1965 |
Areas of Specialization
Research
Teaching
Outreach
Students
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Mark Brush Lora Harris Joaquin Chaves Luke Cole Robinson Fulweiler Christopher Mueller Autumn Oczkowski Kelly Henry Peter DiMilla Laura Windecker Lindsey Fields Brita Jessen Leanna Heffner Courtney Schmidt |
Ph.D. Ph.D. M.S. and Ph.D. M.S. M.S. and Ph.D. M.O. Ph.D. MS M.S. M.S. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. |
2002 2006 1997 and 2004 2005 2003 and 2007 2008 2009 2007 2006 2010 Candidate Candidate Candidate Candidate |
Publications:
Harris, L.A., B. Buckley, S.W. Nixon, and B. T. Allen. 2004. Experimental studies of predation by Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, in varying densities of seagrass and macroalgae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 281:233-239. Nixon, S.W. 2004. Marine resources and the human carrying capacity of coastal ecosystems in southern New England before European contact. Northeast Anthropology 68:1-23. Fulweiler, R.W. and S.W. Nixon. 2005. Terrestrial vegetation and the seasonal cycle of dissolved silica in a southern New England river. Biogeochemistry 74:115-130. Fulweiler, R.W. and S. W. Nixon. 2005. Export of nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended solids from a southern New England watershed to Little Narragansett Bay. Biogeochemistry 76:567-593. Harris, L.A., C. M. Duarte, and S. W. Nixon. 2006. Allometric laws and prediction in estuarine and coastal ecology. Estuaries and Coasts 29:340-344. Nixon, S.W., B. Buckley, S. Granger, M. Entsua-Mensah, O. Ansa-Asare, M. White, and R. McKinney. 2007. Anthropogenic enrichment and nutrients in some tropical lagoons of Ghana, West Africa. Ecological Applications 17:S144 -S164. Yunev, O.A. , J. Carstensen, S. Moncheva, A. Khaliulin, G. Ærtebjerg, S. Nixon. 2007. Nutrient and phytoplankton trends on the western Black Sea shelf in response to cultural eutrophication and climate changes. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science 74:63-76. Fulweiler, R.W., S.W. Nixon, B.A. Buckley, and S.L. Granger. 2007. Reversal of the net dinitrogen gas flux in coastal marine sediments. Nature 448:180 - 182. Oczkowski, A.J., S.W. Nixon, P.DiMilla, M.E.Q. Pilson, C. Thornber, S.L. Granger, B.A. Buckley, R. Mckinney, J. Chaves, and K.M. Henry. 2008. On the distribution and trophic importance of anthropogenic nitrogen in Narragansett Bay; an assessment using stable isotopes. Estuaries and Coasts 31:53-69. Thornber, C. S., P. DiMilla, S. W. Nixon, and R. A. McKinney. 2008. Natural and anthropogenic nitrogen uptake by bloom-forming macroalgae. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56:261-269. Oczkowski, A. and S. Nixon. 2008. Increasing nutrient concentrations and the rise and fall of a coastal fishery; a review of data from the Nile Delta, Egypt. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 77:309-319. Featured Article. Henry, K. M. and S. W. Nixon. 2008. A half century assessment of hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, growth in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Estuaries and Coasts 31:755-766. Oczkowski, A., S. Nixon, S. Granger, A. El-Sayed, M. Altabet, and R. McKinney. 2008. A preliminary survey of the nitrogen and carbon isotope characteristics of fish from the lagoons of Egypt’s Nile Delta. Estuaries and Coasts 31:1130-1142. Fulweiler, R. W., S. W. Nixon, B. A. Buckley, and S. L. Granger. 2008. Net Sediment N2 Fluxes in a coastal marine system – experimental manipulation and a conceptual model. Ecosystems 11:1168 - 1180. Nixon, S.W., B. Buckley, S. Granger, L. Harris, A. Oczkowski, R. Fulweiler, and L. Cole. 2008. Nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to Narragansett Bay: Past, present, and future. Pp 101-176 In: B. Costa-Pierce and A. Desbonnet (eds. ) Science for Ecosystem-Based Estuarine Management: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century. Springer Verlag, NY. Fulweiler, R.W. and S.W. Nixon. 2009. Responses of benthic-pelagic coupling to climate change in a temperate estuary. Hydrobiologia 629:147-256. Nixon, S. W., R. W. Fulweiler, B. A. Buckley, S. L. Granger, B. L. Nowicki, and K. M. Henry. 2009. The impact of changing climate on phenology, productivity, and benthic-pelagic- coupling in Narragansett Bay. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. Featured Article 82: 1-18. Nixon, S.W. 2009. Eutrophication and the macroscope. Hydrobiologia 629: 5-19. Oczkowski, A. J., S. W. Nixon, S. L. Granger, A. F. ElSayed, and R. A. McKinney. Anthropogenic enhancement of Egypt’s Mediterranean fishery. 2009.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 1364-1367. Boesch, D., W. Boynton, L. Crowder, R. Diaz, R. Howarth, D. Mee, S. Nixon, N. Rabalais, R. Rosenberg, J. Sanders, D. Scavia, and R. Turner. 2009 Nutrient enrichment drives Gulf of Mexico hypoxia. Eos 90: 117-118. Breitberg, D., K. Craig, S. Fulford, K. Rose, W. Boynton, D. Brady, B. Ciotti, R. Diez, D. Friedland, J. Hagy, D. Hart, A. Hines, E. Houd, S. Kolesar, S. Nixon, J. Rice, D. Secor, and T. Targett. 2009. Nutrient enrichment and fisheries exploitation: interactive effects on estuarine living resources and their management. Hydrobiologia 629:31-47. White, M., C. Andrzejewski, K. Awusabo-Asare, A. Kumi-Kyereme, S. Nixon, B. Buckley, S. Granger, and H. Reed. 2009. Urbanization and environmental quality: insights from Ghana on sustainable policies. In: deSherbinin, A., A. Rahman, A. Barbieri, J. Fotso, and Y. Zhu (eds.) Urban Population-Development-Environment Dynamics in the Developing World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. CICRED Paris. Available at: http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/workshops.jsp#W2007 Nixon, S. S. and R. W. Fulweiler. 2009. Nutrient pollution, eutrophication, and the degradation of coastal marine ecosystems. Pp. 23-58. In: C. M. Duarte (ed.) Global Loss of Coastal Habitats: Rates, Causes and Consequences. Fundación BBVA, Bilbao, Spain. Brush, M. J. and S. W. Nixon. 2010. Modeling the role of macro-algae in a shallow sub- estuary of Narragansett Bay, RI (USA). Ecological Modeling 221:1065-1079. Oczkowski, A. J., M. E. Q. Pilson, and S. W. Nixon. 2010. A marked gradient in δ13C values of clams Mercenaria mercenaria across a marine embayment may reflect variations in ecosystem metabolism. Marine Ecology Progress Series 414:145-153. Oczkowski, A. J. and S. W. Nixon. 2010. Lagoons of the Nile Delta. Pp.255-284. In: M. Kennish and H. Paerl (eds.) Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change. CRC Press Marine Science Book Series. Boynton, DiMilla, P., S. Nixon, M. Altabet, and R. McKinney. 2011. Some challenges of an "upside down" nitrogen budget - science and management in Greenwich Bay, RI (USA). Marine Pollution Bulletin 62(4):672-680.Oczkowski, A. J., F. G. Lewis, S. W. Nixon, H. L. Edmiston, R. S. Robinson, and J. P. Chanton. 2011. Fresh water inflow and oyster productivity in Apalachicola Bay, FL (USA). Estuaries and Coasts 34:993-1005.Nixon, S. W. and R. W. Fulweiler. Environmental footprints and shadows in an urban estuary, Narragansett Bay, RI (USA). Regional Environmental Change. In press - available on line. Fulweiler, R. W. and S. W. Nixon. 2011. Net sediment N2 fluxes in a southern New England estuary- variations in space and time. Biogeochemistry 106.-available on line.
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Boynton, W. R. and S. W. Nixon. Budget analyses of estuarine ecosystems. In: J. Day, W. M. Kemp, and A. Yanez-Arancibia (eds.) Estuarine Ecology, 2nd ed. John Wiley. In press.
Presentations:
Spring and Fall ASLO 2008 ;Brown University 2008; Louisiana State University 2008; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2009; New England Water and Environment Association 2009; North American Benthological Society 2010; CERF, Fall 2011;
