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Candace A Oviatt

Professor of Oceanography

Director, Marine Ecosystems Research Lab (MERL)

MERL Room 4

coviatt@gso.uri.edu

401-874-6661

http://www.gso.uri.edu/merl/merl.html

Educational Background

Ph.D., Biological Oceanography B.S., Biology

University of Rhode Island Bates College

1967 1961

Areas of Specialization

Research

Candace Oviatt's current research focuses on coastal ecosystem studies, particularly system production and respiration as measured by oxygen and carbon, carbon and nutrient cycling,benthic-water column interactions, and the functional role of higher trophic levels.

Teaching

Candace Oviatt currently teaches the core course in Biological Oceanography (OCG 561).

Students

Greg Ellis D. Chris Melrose Kim Whitman Hyde Brooke Longval Chris Calabretta Linda Auker Jason Krumholz Leslie Smith Matt Schult Jeff Mercer

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

2002 2005 2006 2009 2009 2006 Candidate Candidate Candidate Candidate

Publications:

Codiga, D., H. Stoffel, C. Deacutis, S. Kiernan, C. Oviatt. 2009. Narragansett Bay hypoxic event characteristics: Inter-annual variability, geographic distribution, intermittency, and spatial synchronicity. Estuaries and Coasts, 32(4): 621-641.

Reel Bites video for the Fall 2008 URI Honors Colloquium: People and Planet, Global Environmental Change

Calabretta, C.J. and C.A. Oviatt. 2008. The response of benthic macrofauna to anthropogenic stress in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: A review of human stressors and assessment of community conditions. Marine Polution Bulletin 56:1680-1695.

Oviatt, C., K. Hyde, A. Keller, J. Turner. 2007. Production patterns in Massachusetts Bay with outfall relocation. Estuaries and Coasts 30: 35-46.

Melrose, D. C., C. Oviatt, M. Berman. 2007. Hypoxic events in Narragansett Bay, RI during the summer of 2001. Estuaries and Coasts 30: 47-53.

Hyde, Kimberly J. W., John E. O’Reilly, Candace A. Oviatt. 2007. Validation of Sea WiFS chlorophyll in Massachusetts Bay. Continental Shelf Research 27: 1677-1691.

Oviatt, C., A. Gold. 2005. Plant nitrogen in coastal waters. Ch 8. In: Nitrate, Agriculture and the Environment. T. Addiscott, Ed. CAB International, UK.

Oviatt, C. A. 2004. The changing ecology of temperate coastal waters during a warming trend. Estuaries. 27: 895-904.

Oviatt, C., S. Olsen, M. Andrews, J. Collie, T. Lynch, K. Raposa. 2003. A century of fishing and fish fluctuations in Narragansett Bay. Reviews in Fisheries Science 11:1-22.

Oviatt, C.A., A.A. Keller, and L. Reed. 2002. Annual primary production in Narragansett Bay with no bay-wide winter-spring phytoplankton bloom. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 54: 1013-1026.

Keller, A.A., C.A. Oviatt, H.A. Walker and J.D. Hawk. 1999. Predicted impacts of elevated temperature on the magnitude of the winter-spring phytoplankton bloom in temperate coastal waters: A mesocosm study. Limnology and Oceanography 44(2):344-356.