• Educational Background
• Research Interests
• Current Projects
• Teaching
• Research Group
• Publications
• Research Page

Educational Background

• Ph.D., 1983, Zoology
  The University of Texas, Austin, TX
• M.S., 1975, Biology
  Texas A & I University, Kingsville
• B.S., 1972, Biology
  Texas A & I University, Kingsville

Research Interests

• Biological oceanography-continental shelf ecosystems influenced by large rivers; distribution, dynamics and effects of hypoxia
• Estuarine and benthic ecology
• Integration of science and policy
• Aquatic ecology
• Benthic processes

Current Projects

• Distribution and Dynamics of Hypoxia on the Louisiana Continental Shelf
  See Website:http://www.gulfhypoxia.net/
• Effects of Hypoxia on Living Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
  See Website:http://www.gulfhypoxia.net/
• Eutrophication of Estuaries and Coastal Waters in the Gulf of Mexico
• MULTISTRESS: Cumulative Coastal Stressors: Northern Gulf of Mexico
• Historical Reconstruction of Ecosystem Changes from Sediments
• Impacts of Climate Variability on Coastal Fisheries in Low Oxygen Environments
• Relative contribution of respiration and photosynthesis to bottom water oxygen budget in the hypoxic area
• Use of foraminiferans to document the history of hypoxia

Teaching

• Biological Oceanography
• Changing Coastal Oceans

Research Group

• Wendy Morrison, Senior Research Associate
  
  • B.S., 1987, Biology
    University of Louisiana Monroe , Monroe, Louisiana
• Lora Pride, Research Associate
  
  • B.S., 1997, Biology (Marine Sciences), Chemistry Minor
    Salisbury University , Salisbury, MD
• Danielle Richardi, Research Assistant
  
  • M.S. Student, Marine and Environmental Biology
    Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA USA
• B.S. , 1992, Biology, Marine and Environmental Biology options
  Millersville University, Millersville, PA USA
• Thomas Widgeon, Research Assistant
  
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• Melissa M. Baustian, Graduate Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
  
  • B.S., 2003, Biology
    Iowa State University, Ames, IA
• M.S., 2005, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
• Jenn Lasseigne, Doctoral Graduate Student
  
  • B.S., 2002, Marine Biology
    Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
• M.S., 2006, Marine and Environmental Biology
  Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA

Publications

• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais and D. Justić. 2008. Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: alternate states and a legacy. Environmental Science and Technology 42: 2323-2327.
• Liu, B., L. A. Schaider, D. B. Senn, R. P. Mason, M. S. Bank, P. W. Swarzenski, J. P Shine, T. Hollweg and N. N. Rabalais. In press Jan09. Hurricane impacts on mercury dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeoscience, doi:10.1029/2008JG000752.
• Conley, D. J., E. Bonsdorff, J. Carstensen, G. Destouni, B. G. Gustafsson, L.-A. Hanxon, N. N. Rabalais, M. Voss and L. Zillén. In press, Jan 09. Viewpoint. Tackling hypoxia in the Baltic Sea: Is engineering a solution. Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea: Is engineering the solution? Environmental Science and Technology.na
• Conley, D. J., S. Björck, E. Bonsdorff, G. Destouni, B. Gustafsson, S. Hietanen, M. Kortekaas, H. Kuosa, M. Meier, B. Müller-Karulis, K. Nordberg, G. Nürnberg, A. Norkko, H. Pitkänen, N. N. Rabalais, R. Rosenberg, O. Savchuk, C. P. Slomp, M. Voss, F. Wulff and L. Zillén. In press Jan09. Critical Review. Hypoxia-related processes in the Baltic Sea. Environmental Science and Technology.
• Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, D. Justić, and R. J. Díaz. Published online Mar09. Global change and eutrophication of coastal waters. ICES Journal of Marine Science doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsp047.
• Boesch, D. F., W. R. Boynton, L. B. Crowder, R. J. Diaz, R. W. Howarth, L. D. Mee, S. W. Nixon, N. N. Rabalais, R. Rosenberg, J. G. Sanders, D. Scavia and R. E. Turner. 2009. Nutrient enrichment drives Gulf of Mexico hypoxia. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 90(14):117-118.
• Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, B. K. Sen Gupta, E. Platon and M. L. Parsons. 2007. Sediments tell the history of eutrophication and hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Applications, Special Issue, Nutrient Enrichment of Estuarine and Coastal Marine Environments 17(5) Supplement: S129-S143.
• Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, B. K. Sen Gupta, D. F. Boesch, P. Chapman, and M. C. Murrell. 2007. Characterization and Long-Term Trends of Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Does the Science Support the Action Plan? Estuaries and Coasts 30(5): 753-772.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais, D. Scavia and G. F. McIsaac. 2007. Corn Belt landscapes and hypoxia of the Gulf of Mexico. In J. I. Nassauer, M. V. Santelmann and D. Scavia (eds.) From the Corn Belt to the Gulf. Ecological and Societal Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures, Resources for the Future Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais, R. B. Alexander, G. McIsaac and R. W. Howarth. 2007. Characterization of nutrient, organic carbon and sediment loads from the Mississippi River into the northern Gulf of Mexico. Estuaries and Coasts 30(5): 773-790.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais and D. Justic. 2006. Predicting summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: riverine N, P and Si loading. Marine Pollution Bulletin 52: 139-148.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais, B. Fry, N. Atilla, C. S. Milan, J. M. Lee, C. Normandeau, T. A. Oswald, E. M. Swenson, and D. A. Tomasko. 2006. Paleo-indicators and water quality change in the Charlotte Harbor Estuary (Florida). Limnology and Oceanography 51: 518-533.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais and D. Justić. 2006. Predicting summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: riverine N, P and Si loading. Marine Pollution Bulletin 52: 139-148.
• Walker, N.D. and N.N. Rabalais. 2006. Relationships among Satellite Chlorophyll a, River Inputs and Hypoxia on the Louisiana Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico. Estuaries and Coasts 29(6B): 1081-1093.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais, B. Fry, N. Atilla, C. S. Milan, J. M. Lee, C. Normandeau, T. A. Oswald, E. M. Swenson, and D. A. Tomasko. 2006. Paleo-indicators and water quality change in the Charlotte Harbor Estuary (Florida). Limnol. Oceanogr. 51: 518-533.
• Parsons, M.L., Q. Dortch, R.E. Turner and N.N. Rabalais. 2006. Reconstructing the development of eutrophication in Louisiana salt marshes. Limn. Ocean. 51(1, part 2): 534-544.
• Rabalais, N.N. and R.E. Turner. 2006. Oxygen depletion in the Gulf of Mexico adjacent to the Mississippi River. Pages 225-245 in L. N. Neretin, ed., Past and Present Marine Water Column Anoxia. NATO Science Series: IV-Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kluwer.
• Platon, E., B. K. Sen Gupta, N. N. Rabalais, and R. E. Turner. 2005. Effect of seasonal hypoxia on the benthic foraminiferal community of the Louisiana inner continental shelf: The 20th century record. Mar. Micropal. 54: 263-283.
• Rabalais, N. N. 2005. The potential for nutrient overenrichment to diminish marine biodiversity, p. 109-122. In E.A. Norse and L.B. Crowder (eds.), Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity. Island Press. Washington, D.C.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais, E. M. Swenson, M. Kasprzak and T. Romaire. 2005. Summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico and its prediction from 1978 to 1995. Marine Environmental Research 59: 65-77.
• Turner, R. E., C. S. Milan and N. N. Rabalais. 2004. A retrospective analysis of trace metals, C, N and diatom remnants in sediments from the Mississippi River delta shelf. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 49: 548-556.
• Rabalais, N. N. 2004. Chapter 21: Eutrophication, p. 819-865. In A. R. Robinson, J. McCarthy and B. J. Rothschild (eds.), The Global Coastal Ocean: Multiscale Interdisciplinary Processes, The Sea. Vol. 13, Harvard University Press.
• Turner, R. E., Q. Dortch, and N. N. Rabalais. 2004. Inorganic nitrogen transformations at high loading rates in an oligohaline estuary. Biogeochemistry 68: 411-422.
• Wiseman, Jr., W. J., N. N. Rabalais, R. E. Turner, and D. Justic. 2004. Hypoxia and the physics of the Louisiana coastal current, p. 359-372. In J. C. J. Nihoul, P. O. Zavialov, and P. P. Micklin (eds.), Dying and Dead Seas, NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Li觥, Belgium. May 7-10, 2003. NATO ASI Series. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Turner, R. E. and N. N. Rabalais. 2004. Suspended sediment, C, N, P, and Si yields from the Mississippi River Basin. Hydrobiologia 511: 79-89.
• Rabalais, N. N., N. Atilla, C. Normandeau and R. E. Turner. 2004. Ecosystem history of Mississippi River-influenced continental shelf revealed through preserved phytoplankton pigments. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 49: 537-547.
• Turner, R. E. and N. N. Rabalais. 2003. Linking landscape and water quality in the Mississippi River basin for 200 years. BioScience 53: 563-572.
• Scavia, D., N. N. Rabalais, R. E. Turner, D. Justic, and W. J. Wiseman, Jr. 2003. Predicting the response of Gulf of Mexico hypoxia to variations in Mississippi River nitrogen load. Limnol. & Oceanogr. 48: 951-956.
• Justic, D., N. N. Rabalais, and R. E. Turner. 2003. Simulated responses of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxia to variations in climate and anthropogenic nutrient loading. J. Mar. Syst. 42: 115-126.
• Rabalais, N. N. 2003. Oil in the sea. Issues Sci. Technol. 20: 74-78.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais, D. Justic, and Q. Dortch. 2003. Future aquatic nutrient limitations. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 46: 1032-1034.
• Turner, R. E., N. N. Rabalais, D. Justic and Q. Dortch. 2003. Global patterns of dissolved N, P and Si in large rivers. Biogeochemistry 64: 297-317.
• Childs, C. R., N. N. Rabalais, R. E. Turner and L. M. Proctor. 2002. Sediment denitrification in the Gulf of Mexico zone of hypoxia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 240: 285-290. & 2003. Erratum 247: 310.
• Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, and W. J. Wiseman, Jr. 2002. Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, a.k.a. “The Dead Zone.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33: 235-263.
• Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, Q. Dortch, D. Justic, V. J. Bierman, Jr. and W. J. Wiseman, Jr. 2002. Review. Nutrient-enhanced productivity in the northern Gulf of Mexico: past, present and future. Hydrobiologia 475/476: 39-63.
• Rabalais, N. N. 2002. Nitrogen in aquatic ecosystems. Ambio 31(2): 102-112.
• Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, and D. Scavia. 2002. Beyond science into policy: Gulf of Mexico hypoxia and the Mississippi River. BioScience 52: 129-142.
• Justic, D., N. N. Rabalais, and R. E. Turner. 2002. Modeling the impacts of decadal changes in riverine nutrient fluxes on coastal eutrophication near the Mississippi River Delta. Ecol. Model. 152: 33-46.
• Rabalais, N. N. and R. E. Turner (eds.). 2001. Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems. Coastal and Estuarine Studies 58, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.