Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Predictability of the Moisture Regime During the Preonset Period of Sahelian Rains

Presented at the 1st Environment and Health Symposium during the 90th American Meteorological Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

Variability of Atmospheric Moisture during the Boreal Spring in West Africa

Presented at the 29th Conference of Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Tucson, Arizona.

Investigation of the Interactions among Transient Atmospheric Wave Disturbances over West Africa During Boreal Spring of 2009

Presented at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) NAC Meeting, Fresno, California.

Development and application of a Coupled-Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) modeling system for nearshore environments

Invited presentation presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR.

Investigation of Hurricane Ivan using the 3-way Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) model

Presented at the North Carolina State University Graduate Student Research Symposium, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Food Safety Research Response Network

(Project Number No. NCV-VMCG-0026). National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Using Occurrence Of Microbial Indicators And Frank Pathogens In Water, Sediment And Mollusks In Developing A Local Shellfish Sanitation Program In Puerto Rico

Ballester, K., Ramirez-Toro, G., Hertler, H., Escudero, B., Jaykus, L., & Levine, J. F. (2010, February 31). Presented at the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

USC CINAPS Builds Bridges

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 17(1), 20–30.

Seasonal analysis of protistan community structure and diversity at the USC Microbial Observatory (San Pedro Channel, North Pacific Ocean)

Limnology and Oceanography, 55(6), 2381–2396.

Compendium of Veterinary Standard Precautions for Zoonotic Disease Prevention in Veterinary Personnel: National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians Veterinary Infection Control Committee 2010

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 237(12), 1403–1422.

Effects of opioids and anesthetic drugs on body temperature in cats

Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 37(1), 35–43.

Recent developments in online monitoring technology for surveillance of algal blooms, potential toxicity and physical-chemical structure in rivers, reservoirs and lakes

In AWWA Manual: Vol. M57. Algae: Source to Treatment (Vol. M57, pp. 3–23). Denver, CO: American Water Works Association.

Molecular keys unlock the mysteries of variable survival responses of blue crabs to hypoxia

Oecologia, 163(1), 57–68.

Abundance and distribution of major groups of diazotrophic cyanobacteria and their potential contribution to N2 fixation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

Environmental Microbiology, 12, 3272–3289.

Late-stage water eruptions from Ascraeus Mons volcano, Mars: Implications for its structure and history

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 294(3-4), 479–491.

The response of Great Lakes water levels to future climate scenarios with an emphasis on Lake Michigan-Huron

Journal of Great Lakes Research, 36, 51–58.

Intercomparison of cloud condensation nuclei and hygroscopic fraction measurements: Coated soot particles investigated during the LACIS Experiment in November (LExNo)

Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(D11).

Observations of ice nucleation by ambient aerosol in the homogeneous freezing regime

Geophysical Research Letters, 37(4).

Development and environmental application of a genus-specific quantitative PCR approach for Pseudo-nitzschia species

Marine Biology, 157(5), 1161–1169.

Harmful algae and their potential impacts on desalination operations off southern California

Water Research, 44(2), 385–416.