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Scott W Nixon

Professor of Oceanography

Coastal Institute

swn@gso.uri.edu

401-874-6803

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

Scott Nixon's current research interests focus on productivity and biogeochemical cycling of coastal ecosystems, with emphasis on estuaries, lagoons, and wetlands. He also conducts ecosystem-level experiments using mesocosms and is interested in comparative and historical ecology.

Teaching

Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Ph.D and MS research, Independent Study, UNESCO-Cousteau Chair in Coastal Ecology and Global Assessment

Outreach

Recent member National Research Council Ocean Studies Board; NRC committees on Energlades Restoration, the Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Assessment Model, and the Louisiana Coastal Restoration Plan; Co-editor in chief of Estuaries; member of the Mass. Bay Outfall Monitoring Scientific Advisory Comm. for EPA, member, Board of Directors of the Inst. for Coastal Studies, Univ. of North Carolina; member, Board of Directors, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Students

Mark Brush Robinson Fulweiler Joaquin Chaves Luke Cole Robinson Fulweiler Christopher Mueller Autumn Oczkowski Leanna Heffner Laura Windecker

Ph.D. M.S. Ph.D. M.S. Ph.D. M.O. Ph.D. Ph.D. M.S.

2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 2008 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.

Fulweiler, R.W. and S.W. Nixon. In press. Responses of benthic-pelagic coupling to climate change in a temperate estuary. Hydrobiologia.

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.

Nixon, S.W. In press. Eutrophication and the macroscope. Hydrobiologia.

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. A half century assessment of hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, growth in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Estuaries and Coasts, in press.