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———. 1999. Physiology and bloom dynamics of toxic Alexandrium species, with emphasis on life cycle transitions. The Physiological Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms ed., Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. D. M. Anderson, A. D. Cembella, and G. M. Hallegraeff, eds.

Balch, W. M., D. T. Drapeau, T. L. Cucci, R. D. Vaillancourt, K. A. Kilpatrick, and J. J. Fritz. 1999. Optical backscattering by calcifying algae: Separating the contribution by particulate inorganic and organic carbon fractions. J. Geophys. Res. 104:1571-1588.

Barnhardt, W. A., D. F. Belknap, and J. T. Kelley. 1997. Sequence stratigraphy of submerged river mouth deposits in the northwestern Gulf of Maine: responses to relative sea-level changes. Society of America Bulletin 109: 612-30.

Barnhardt, W. A., J. T. Kelley, D. F. Belknap, S. M. Dickson, and A. R. Kelley. 1996. Surficial geology of the inner continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Maine: Piscataqua River to Biddeford Pool. Maine Geological Survey Geologic Map, no. 1:100,000: 96-6.

———. 1996. Surficial geology of the inner continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Maine: Ogunquit to the Kennebec River. Maine Geological Survey Geologic Map, no. 1:100,000: 96-7.

———. 1996. Surficial geology of the inner continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Maine: Cape Elizabeth to Pemaquid Point. Maine Geological Survey Geologic Map, no. 1:100,000: 96-8.

———. 1996. Surficial geology of the inner continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Maine: Boothbay Harbor to North Haven. Maine Geological Survey Geologic Map, no. 1:100,000: 96-9.

———. 1996. Surficial geology of the inner continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Maine: Rockland to Bar Harbor. Maine Geological Survey Geologic Map, no. 1:100,000: 96-10.

———. 1996. Surficial geology of the inner continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Maine: Mt. Desert Island to Jonesport. Maine Geological Survey Geologic Map , no. 1:100,000: 96-11.

———. 1996. Surficial geology of the inner continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Maine: Petit Manan Point to West Quoddy Head. Maine Geological Survey Geologic Map, no. 1:100,000: 96-12.

Barnhardt, W. A., J. T. Kelley, S. M. Dickson, and D. F. Belknap. 1998. Mapping the Gulf of Maine with side-scan sonar: A new bottom-type classification for complex seafloors. Journal of Coastal Research 14:646-59.

Bricelj, V. Monica, and Sandra E. Shumway. 1998. Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Bivalve Molluscs: Occurrence, Transfer Kinetics and Biotransformation. Reviews in Fisheries Science 6, no. 4: 315-83.

Brown, Wendell S. 1998. Chapter 15: Boundary Flux Measurements in the Coastal Ocean. The Sea ed., 399-418. Vol. 10. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Brink, Kenneth H. and Allan R. Robinson, eds.

———. 1998. Wind-forced pressure response of the Gulf of Maine. Journal of Geophysical Research 103, no. C13:30,661-30,678.

Brown, Wendell S., and Karen Garrison. 1997. Integrated Environmental Data and Information Management Systems for Marine Research and Resource Management in the Gulf of Maine . Eco-Informa '96.

Bub, F. L., Wendell S. Brown, and Mupparapu P. 1999. Circulation Variability in the Western Gulf of Maine: Wilkinson Basin. OPAL Tech. Report, no. UNH-OPAL-1999-001: XX.

Buesseler, K. O., J. Bauer, R. Chen, T. Eglinton, O. Gustafsson, W. M. Landing, K. Mopper, S. B. Moran, P. H. Santschi, and M. Wells. 1996. An intercomparison of cross-flow filtration techniques used for sampling marine colloids: overview and organic carbon results. Marine Chemistry 55: 1-31.

Buesseler, K. O., and S. B. Moran. 1994. In-situ collection of marine colloids and their thorium isotopic signature. American Chemical Society Symposium, San Diego, CA, March 13-18, 1994.

Charette, M. A. 1998. Carbon cycling in the Gulf of Maine and the Arctic using the natural tracer Thorium-234. Thesis, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

Charette, M. A., S. B. Moran, S. M. Pike, C. H. Pilskaln, and J. N. Smith. 1998. Investigating the carbon cycle in the Gulf of Maine using natural tracer 234-Thorium. Fall 1998 AGU Meeting, Program of Abstracts. EOS 79, no. 45: 495-96.

Charette, M. A., S. B. Moran, and C. H. Pilskaln. 1996. Particulate organic carbon export fluxes in the central Gulf of Maine estimated from ²³⁴Th/²³⁸U disequilibria. Gulf of Maine Ecosystem Dynamics Symposium and Workshop, Program of Abstracts: 20.

Dai, M., Ripple P., Andrews J. A., Buesseler K. O., Gustafsson O., and S. B. Moran 1998. A comparison of two cross-flow filtration methods for sampling marine organic colloids. Marine Chemistry 62: 117-36.

Feng, H. 1996. Wind-Induced Responses of the Western Coastal Gulf of Maine During Spring and Summer 1994. Master's Thesis.

Feng, H., and Wendell S. Brown. 1996. Hindcasting the Gulf of Maine Wind Field: A Case Study. OPAL Tech. Report, no. UNH-OPAL-1996-003: 21.

Feng, H., F. L. Garrison, and Wendell S. Brown. 1995. Hydrography Survey Report: Western Gulf of Maine - Regional Marine Research Program R/V Gulf Challenger Cruises - 16 March 1994/21 March 1994, 23 May 1994, 3 August 1994, 31 October 1994, 16 March 1995/20 March 1995. OPAL Tech. Report, no. UNH OPAL-1996-001: 136.

Fong, D. A., W. R. Geyer, and R. P. Signell. 1997. The wind-forced response of a buoyant coastal current: observations of the western Gulf of Maine plume . Journal of Marine Systems 12: 69-81.

Franks, P. J. S. 1997. Coupled physical-biological models for the study of harmful algal blooms. Ocean Research 19: 153-60.

———. 1997. Models of harmful algal blooms. Limnology and Oceanography 42: 1273-82.

———. 1998. Spatial patterns in dense algal blooms. Limnology and Oceanography 42: 1297-3105.

Garside, C., J. C. Garside, M. D. Keller, and M. E. Sieracki. 1996. The formation of high nutrient low salinity water in the Gulf of Maine: A nutrient trap? Estuar. coastal Shelf Sci. 42: 617-28.

Greenamoyer, J. M. 1995. An Investigation of Cadmium, Copper and Nickel in the Colloidal Size Range in Seawater. Thesis, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island.

Greenamoyer, J. M., Gustafsson O., and Moran S. B. 1995. An investigation of trace metal partitioning of colloids in seawater using cross-flow filtration. The Oceanography Society Meeting, Newport, R.I., March 17-21, No. co-16.

Greenamoyer, J. M., and S. B. Moran. 1996. Evaluation of a spiral wound cross-flow filtration system for colloidal size-fractionation in Cu, Ni and Cd in seawater. Marine Chemistry 55: 153-63.

Greenamoyer, J. M., and S. B. Moran 1996. Evaluation of a spiral wound Osmonics cross-flow filtration system for trace metal sampling in seawater. EOS, Trans, Amer. Geophys. Union 76, no. 3: OS172.

Greenamoyer, J. M., and S. B. Moran. 1997. Investigation of Cd, Cu, Ni and 234Th in the colloidal size range in the Gulf of Maine. Marine Chemistry 57: 217-26.

Greenamoyer, J. M., S. B. Moran, and P. A. Yeats. 1994. Trace metals solid-solution partitioning on colloids in the Gulf of Maine. EOS, Trans, Amer. Geophys. Union 75, no. 44: 325.

Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, W. R. Geyer, S. B. Moran, and P. M. Gschwend. 1998. An assessment of the relative significance of horizontal and vertical transport of particle-reactive chemicals in the coastal ocean. Continental Shelf Research 18: 805-29.

Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, W. R. Geyer, S. B. Moran, and P. M. Gschwend. 1998. An assessment of the relative importance of horizontal and vertical transport of particle-reactive chemicals in the coastal ocean. Continental Shelf Research 18: 805-29.

Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, and P. M. Gschwend. 1996. On the integrity of cross-flow filtration for collecting marine organic colloids. Marine Chemistry 55: 93-111.

Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, S. B. Moran, and P. M. Gschwend. 1994. Physical speciation and 234Th-derived transfer rates of individual hydrophobic compounds in coastal seawater. American Chemical Society Symposium, San Diego, CA, March 13-18, 1994.

Gustafsson, Ö., and P. M. Gschwend. 1997. Aquatic Colloids: Concepts, definitions, and current challenges. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42: 519-28.

———. 1997. Soot as a Strong Partition Medium for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Aquatic Systems, Chapter 24. Molecular Markers in Environmental Geochemistry ed., 365-81. Vol. 671. American Chemical Society, ASC Symposium Series. Eganhouse, R. P., ed.

———. 1998. The flux of black carbon to surface sediments on the New England Continental shelf. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62: 465-72.

———. 1999. Hydrophobic organic compound partitioning from bulk water to the water/air interface. Atmos. Environ. 33: 163-67.

———. 1999. Phase Distributions of Hydrophobic Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment: Existing Partitioning Models Are Unable to Predict the Dissolved Component in Several Common Situations. Bioavailability of Xenobiotics in the Environment ed., NATO-ASI.

Gustafsson, Ö., P. M. Gschwend, and K. O. Buesseler. 1997. Settling removal rates of PCBs into the northwestern Atlantic derived from 238U-234Th disequilibria. Environ. Sci. Technol. 31: 3544-50.

———. 1997. Using 234Th disequilibria to estimate the vertical removal rates of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the surface ocean. Marine Chemistry 57: 11-23.

Incze, L. S., and C. E. Naimie. 1999. Modeling the transport of lobster (Homarus americanus) larvae and postlarvae in the Gulf of Maine. Fish. Oceanogr. 9(1): in press.

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Keller, M. D. 1996. Bloom dynamics and physiology of Phaeocystis. Invited plenary at NATO ASI on the Physiological Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms, Bermuda, May 1996.

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Kelley, J. T., W. A. Barnhardt, D. F. Belknap, S. M. Dickson, and A. R. Kelley. 1998. The Seafloor revealed: The geology of Maine's inner continental shelf. A report to the Regional Marine Research Program. Maine Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-6: 55.

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Mupparapu, P. 1999. The Role of Convection in Winter Gulf of Maine Mixed Layer Formation. Master's Thesis.

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Pike, S. M., M. A. Charette, S. B. Moran, and C. H. Pilskaln. 1998. Water column removal of trace metals in the Gulf of Maine. EOS, Trans, Amer. Geophys. Union 79, no. 17: S188.

Pike, S. M., M. A. Charrette, S. B. Moran, and C. H. Pilskaln. 1996. Geochemical mass balance model for lead in the Gulf of Maine. Gulf of Maine Ecosystem Dynamics Symposium and Workshop, Program of Abstracts : 71.

Pike, S. M., and S. B. Moran. 1997. Use of Poretics 0.7 μm glass fiber filters for determination of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen in aquatic systems. Marine Chemistry 57: 355-60.

———. 1998. Atmospheric input of trace metals to the Gulf of Maine. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 79, no. 17: S24.

Pilskaln, C. H. 1997. Seasonal biogeochemical particle fluxes and sediment resuspension in the Gulf of Maine: preliminary results from an ongoing study. Fifth Meeting of The Oceanography Society, Program of Abstracts : 67.

Pilskaln, C. H., W. Arnold, C. Lehmann, and L. E. Watling. 1996. Particulate flux dynamics in Jordan and Wilkinson Basins: seasonal POC export and particle resuspension. Gulf of Maine Ecosystem Dynamics Symposium and Workshop, Program of Abstracts: 73.

Pilskaln, C. H., J. H. Churchill, and L. M. Mayer. 1998. Resuspension of sediment by bottom trawling in the Gulf of Maine and potential geochemical consequences. Journal of Conservation Biology 12: 1223–30.

Pilskaln, C. H., and C. Lehmann. 1998. Seasonal biogeochemical particle fluxes and sediment resuspension processes in a coastal sea: The Gulf of Maine. The Oceanography Society Meeting on Coastal and Marginal Seas, Program of Abstracts 42–43.

Pilskaln, C. H., L. E. Watling, and J. H. Churchill. 1997. Effects of bottom trawling on biogeochemical particle fluxes in a deep Gulf of Maine basin environment. Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, Program of Abstracts: 163.

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Townsend, D. W., and N. R. Pettigrew. 1996. The role of frontal currents in larval fish transport on Georges Bank. Deep–Sea Research 43: 1773–92.

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———. 1992. Mass balance modeling of water quality constituents in the Mississippi River. Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, NECOP Workshop Proceedings, pp. 27-36. Galveston, Texas: Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program.

———. 1994. Mass balance modeling of the impacts of nutrient load reductions in the Mississippi River on water quality in the northern Gulf of Mexico. WEFTEC '94. Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 67th Annual Conference and Exposition, pp. 413-24. Alexandria, Virginia: Surface Water Quality and Ecology, Water Environment Federation.

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Bode, A., and Q. Dortch. 1996. Uptake and regeneration of inorganic nitrogen in coastal waters influenced by the Mississippi River: Spatial and seasonal variations. Journal of Plankton Research 18: 2251-68.

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Bratkovich, A., and S. P. Dinnel. 1992. Lower Mississippi River historical influx nitrate flux and Mississippi River outflow buoyancy flux. Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, NECOP Workshop Proceedings , pp. 37-42. Galveston, Texas: Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program.

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Chen, B. 1993. The effects of light and nutrient conditions on primary production and chemical composition for high density phytoplankton cultures. M. S. Thesis; Donald Redalje, advisor. University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.

Chin-Leo, G., and R. Benner. 1992. Enhanced bacterioplankton production and respiration at intermediate salinities in the Mississippi River plume. Marine Ecology Progress Series 87, no. 1-2: 87-103.

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Cruz-Kaegi, M. E., and G. T. Rowe. 1992. Benthic biomass gradients on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf. Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, NECOP Workshop Proceedings, pp. 145-49. Galveston, Texas: Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program .

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Dagg, M. J., and P. B. Ortner. 1992. Mesozooplankton grazing and the fate of carbon in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, NECOP Workshop Proceedings, pp. 117-21. Galveston, Texas: Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program.

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———. 1991. Freshwater fill-times and seasonal distribution of hydrographic data in the Mississippi River outflow region (abstract). Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 72, no. 51: 90.

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Dortch, Q., A. Bode, and R. R. Twilley. 1992. Nitrogen uptake and regeneration in surface waters of the Louisiana continental shelf influenced by the Mississippi River. Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, NECOP Workshop Proceedings, pp. 52-56. Galveston, Texas: Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program.

Dortch, Q., D. Milsted, N. N. Rabalais, S. E. Lorenz, D. G. Redalje, Dagg M. J., R. E. Turner, and T. E. Whitledge. 1992. Role of silicate availability in phytoplankton species composition and the fate of carbon. Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, NECOP Workshop Proceedings, pp. 76-83. Galveston, Texas: Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program.

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Dortch, Q., C. Pham, N. N. Rabalais, and R. E. Turner. 1992. Respiration rates in bottom waters of the Louisiana Shelf. Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, NECOP Workshop Proceedings, pp. 140-144. Galveston, Texas: Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program.

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