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2009  PUBLICATIONS
  1. Abdelzaher AM, Solo-Gabriele, HM, Palmer, CJ, and Scott, TM,
    2009. Simultaneous Concentration of Enterococci and Coliphage from Marine Waters using a Dual Layer Filtration System. Journal of Environmental Quality. (accepted)

  2. An T, Winshell J, Scorzetti G, Fell J, Rein KS.
    Identification of okadaic acid production in the marine dinoflagellate Prorocentrum rhathymum and in a novel strain of Prorocentrum, Toxicon (in press)

  3. Beron-Vera FJ, Olascoaga MJ.
    An Assessment of the Importance of Chaotic Stirring and Turbulent Mixing on the West Florida Shelf.  Journal of Physical Oceanography.  2009. (accepted)

  4. Boehm AB, Griffith J, McGee C, Edge TA, Solo-Gabriele HM, Whitman R, Tsao Y, Getrich M, Jay JA, Ferguson D, Lee C, Madison M, Weisberg SB,
    2009. Fecal indicator bacteria enumeration in beach sand: A comparison study of FIB extraction methods in medium to coarse sands. Journal of Applied Microbiology. (accepted)

  5. Elmir SM, Shibata T, Solo-Gabriele HM, Sinigalliano CD, Gidley ML, Miller G, Plano L, Kish J, Withum K, Fleming LE.
    2009. Quantitative Evaluation of Enterococci and Bacteroidales Released by Adults and Toddlers in Marine Water. Water Research Journal. (in press)

  6. Fleming LE, Bean JA, Kirkpatrick B, Cheng YS, Pierce R, Naar J, Nierenberg K, Backer LC, Wanner A, Reich A, Zhou Y, Watkins S, Henry H, Zaias J, Abraham WM, Benson J, Cassedy A, Hollenbeck J, Kirkpatrick G, Clarke Tainya, Baden DG.
    2009. Exposure and Effect Assessment of Aerosolized Red Tide Toxins (Brevetoxins) and Asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives. (accepted)

  7. Guo F, An T, Rein KS.
    The algal hepatoxoxin okadaic acid is a substrate for human cytochromes CYP3A4 and CYP3A5. Toxicon (in press)

  8. Ortega C, Solo-Gabriele HM, Abdelzaher A, Wright M, Deng Y.
    2009. Correlations between Microbial Indicators, Pathogens, and Environmental Factors in a Subtropical Estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin. (accepted)

  9. Sinigalliano C, Winshell J, Guerrero MA, Scorzetti G, Fell JW, Eaton RW, Brand L and Rein KS.
    Viable cell sorting of dinoflagellates by multiparametric flow cytometry. Phycologia (2009) Volume 48 (4), 249–257, July 6 2009.

  10. Wright ME, Solo-Gabriele, HM, Elmir S, Fleming LE.
    2009. Microbial Load from Animal Feces at a Recreational Beach. Marine Pollution Bulletin. (accepted)
2008  PUBLICATIONS

  1. Abdelzaher A, Solo-Gabriele HM, Wright ME, Palmer CJ.
    Sequential Concentration of Bacteria and Viruses from Marine Waters using a Dual Membrane System. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2008, 23;37(4):1648-55. (PMID: 18574199)

  2. Backer LC, Fleming LE.
    Epidemiologic Tools to Investigate Oceans and Public Health. In: Walsh PJ, Smith SL, Fleming LE, Solo-Gabriele HM, Gerwick WH (eds.).
    Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York, 2008, pp. 201-218.

  3. Boehm A, Ashbolt NJ, Colford Jr JM, Dunbar LE, Fleming LE, Gold MA, Hansel JA, Hunter PR, Ichida AM, McGee CD, Soller JA, Weisberg SB.
    A sea change ahead for recreational water quality criteria. Journal of Water and Health. 2009; 7(1):9-20.

  4. Dyble J, Bienfang P, Dusek E, Hitchcock G, Holland F, Laws E, Lerczak J, McGillicuddy DJ, Minnett P, Moore S, O'Kelly C, Solo-Gabriele HM, Wang J.
    Environmental controls, oceanography and population dynamics of pathogens and harmful algal blooms: Connecting sources to human exposure. Mini-Monograph: Research in Oceans and Human Health. Environmental Health, 2008. 7(Suppl 2):S5. (PMC 2586712)
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  5. Erdner DL, Dyble J, Brand LE, Parker MS, Stevens RC, Moore SK, LeFebvre K, Bienfang P, Anderson DM, Bidigare RR, Moeller P, Wrabel ML, Hubbard KA.
    Centers for Oceans and Human Health: a unified approach to the challenge of harmful algal blooms. Mini-Monograph: Research in Oceans and Human Health. Environmental Health, 2008, 7(Suppl 2):S2. (PMC 2586715)
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  6. Fleming LE, Bean JA, Kirkpatrick B, Cheng YS, Pierce R, Naar J, Nierenberg K, Backer L, Wanner A, Reich A, Zhou Y, Watkins S, Henry M, Zaias J, Abraham W, Benson J, Cassedy A, Hollenbeck J, Kirkpatrick G, Clarke T, Baden D.
    Exposure and Effect Assessment of Aerosolized Red Tide Toxins (Brevetoxins) and Asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2008. (submitted)

  7. Friedman MA, Fleming LE, Fernandez M, Bienfang P, Schrank K, Dickey R, Bottein MY, Backer L, Ayyar R, Weisman R, Watkins S, Granade R, Reich A.
    Ciguatera Fish poisoning: treatment, prevention and management. Marine Drugs (Special Issue on Marine Toxins) 2008, 6, 456-479. (PMC 2579736)

  8. Goodwin KD, Litaker W, Walsh PJ, Smith SL, Fleming LE, Solo-Gabriele HM, Gerwick WH.
    Emerging Technologies for Monitoring Recreational Waters for Bacteria and Viruses. In: Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea. Elsevier Science Publishers, New York. 2008, pp. 381-404.

  9. Goodwin KD, Matragrano L, Wanless D, Sinigalliano CD, LaGier MJ.
    The possibility of false negative results hampers the ability to elucidate the relationship between fecal indicator bacteria and human pathogens and source tracking markers in beach water and sand. In: Marine Pollution: New Research. Tobias N. Hofer, ed. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY. 2008.

  10. Kirkpatrick B, Currier R, Nierenberg K, Reich A, Backer LC, Stumpf R, Fleming LE, Kirkpatrick G.
    Florida Red Tide and Human Health: A Pilot Beach Conditions Reporting System to Minimize Human Exposure. Science of the Total Environment, 2008, 402:1-8. (PMC 2547342)

  11. Kite-Powell HL, Fleming LE, Backer LC, Faustman E, Hoagland P, Tsuchiya A, Younglove L, Wilcox BA, Gast R.
    Linking the oceans to public health: Where is the "human health" in "oceans and human health?" Mini-Monograph: Research in Oceans and Human Health. Environmental Health. 2008, 7 (Suppl 2):S6. (PMC 2586713)
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  12. Laws E, Fleming LE, Stegeman J.I. et al.
    Center for Ocean and Human Health: Contributions to an Emerging Discipline. Environmental Health 7(Suppl 2):S1. (PMC2586714).
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  13. Mahdi LE, Statzell-Tallman A, Fell JW, Brown M, Donachie SP.
    Sympodiomycopsis lanaiensis sp. nov., a basidiomycetous yeast (Ustilaginomycotina: Microstromatales) from marine driftwood in Hawaii. FEMS Yeast Research. 2008 Dec; 8(8):1357-63.

  14. Mendoza WG, Mead RN, Brand LE, Shea D.
    Determination of Brevetoxin in Recent Marine Sediments. Chemosphere. 2008 Nov; 73(8):1373-7.

  15. Moore SK, Trainer VL, Mantau NJ, Parker MS, Laws EA, Backer LC, Fleming LE.
    Center for Oceans and Human Health: Climate variability, climate change and harmful algal blooms. Mini-Monograph: Research in Oceans and Human Health. Environmental Health. 2008, 7 (Suppl 2):S4. (PMC 2586717).
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  16. Olascoaga MJ, Beron-Vera FJ, Brand LE, Kocak, H.
    Tracing the early development of harmful algal blooms on the West Florida Shelf with the aid of Lagrangian coherent structures. Journal of Geophysical Research , 2008; 113 (c12); c12014. (PMIC 19137076).

  17. Palmer CJ, Bonilla TD, Bonilla JA, Elmir S, Goodwin KD, Solo Gabriele HM, Abdelzaher A.
    The Future for Monitoring. In: Walsh PJ, Smith SL, Fleming LE, Solo-Gabriele HM, Gerwick WH (eds.) Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York, 2008, pp. 405-422.

  18. Perez P, Liu L, Lopez J, An T, Rein KS.
    Diverse Bacterial PKS Sequences Derived From Okadaic Acid-Producing Dinoflagellates. Marine Drugs, 6, 164-179, 2008. (PMC2525486)

  19. Scorzetti G, Brand LE, Hitchcock GL, Rein KS, Sinigalliano CD, and Fell JW.
    2008. Multiple simultaneous detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (Habs) through a high throughput bead array technology, with potential use in phytoplankton community analysis. Harmful Algae, May 23, 2008.

  20. Stewart I, Carmichael WW, Backer LC, Fleming LE, Shaw GR.
    Other Environmental Health Issues: Recreational Exposure to Cyanobacteria. In: Encyclopedia of Environmental Health. Elsevier Science Publishers, New York. (in press).

  21. Stewart JR, Gast RJ, Fujioka RS, Solo-Gabriele HM, Meschke JS, Amaral-Zettler LA, Del Castillo E, Polz MF, Collier TK, Strom MS, Sinigalliano CD, Moeller PDR, Holland AF.
    The coastal environment and human health: Microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs. Mini-Monograph: Research in Oceans and Human Health. Environmental Health. 7(Suppl 2):S3.(PMC 2586716)
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  22. Walsh PJ, Smith SL, Fleming LE, Solo-Gabriele HM, Gerwick WH
    (eds.). Textbook: Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Sea, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York, 2008, p. 644.

  23. Watkins SM, Reich A, Fleming LE, Hammond R.
    Neurotoxic Shellfish. Marine Drugs (Special Issue on Marine Toxins), 2008, 6, 431-455. (PMC 2579735)

  24. Winshell J, Guerrero MA, Sinigalliano CD, Scorzetti G, Fell JW, Eaton RW, Rein KS.
    Viable cell sorting of dinoflagellatesby multi-parametric flow cytometry.Phycologia. (accepted)

  25. Zaias J, Backer LC, Fleming LE.
    Human-Animal Medicine: A clinical guide to toxins, zoonoses, and other shared health risks. Conti L and Rabinowitz P (eds.) 2008. Textbook: Harmful Algal Blooms, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York, in press.
2007  PUBLICATIONS

  1. An T, Krishnaswamy T, Kumar S, Wang M, Liu L, Jackson JO, Liyanage R, Berry J, Gantar M, Marks V, Gawley RE, Rein KS.
    2007. Structures of Pahayokolides A and B, Cyclic Peptides from a Lyngbya sp. Journal of Natural Products, 70, 730-735. (PMC2573040)

  2. Baums IB, Goodwin KD, Kiesling T, Wanless D, Diaz MR, Fell JW.
    2007. Luminex Detection of Fecal Indicators in River Samples, Marine Recreational Water, and Beach Sand. Marine Pollution Bulletin 54: 521-536. (PMC 1950674)

  3. Brand LE, Compton A.
    Long-term increase in Karenia brevis abundance along the southwest Florida coast. Harmful Algae, 2007, 6: 232-252. (PMC 2330169)

  4. Block CN, Shibata T, Solo-Gabriele, HM, Townsend, TG.
    Use of handheld X-ray fluorescence spectrometry units for identification of arsenic in treated wood. Environmental Pollution. January 2007, 19:1-7. (PMC 2556294)

  5. Elmir SM, Wright ME, Abdelzaher A, Solo-Gabriele HM, Fleming LE, Miller G, Rybolowik M, Shih M-T P, Pillai SP, Cooper JA, Quaye EA.
    Quantitative Evaluation of Bacteria Released by Bathers in a Marine Water. Water Research, 2007, 41: 3-10.

  6. Fleming LE, Jerez E, Stephan WB, Cassedy A, Bean JA, Reich A, Kirkpatrick B,, Backer L, Nierenberg K, Watkins S, Hollenbeck J, Weisman R.
    Evaluation of Harmful Algal Bloom Outreach Activities. Marine Drugs (Special Issue on Marine Toxins) 2007; 5: 208-219. (PMC 2365694).

  7. LaGier MJ, Fell JW, Goodwin KD.
    Electrochemical Detection of Harmful Algae and Other Microbial Contaminants in Coastal Waters Using Hand-held Biosensors. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2007, 54: 757-770.

  8. Shibata T, Solo-Gabriele HM, Fleming LE, Cai Y, Townsend TG.
    A mass balance approach for evaluating leachable arsenic and chromium from an in-service CCA-treated wood structure. Science of the Total Environment, 2007, 372:624–635. (PMC 1847795)

  9. Sinigalliano CD, Gidley ML, Shibata T, Whitman D, Dixon TH, Laws E, Hous A, Bachoon D, Brand L, Amaral-Zettler L, Gast R, Stewart GF, Nigro OD, Fujioka R, Betancourt WQ, Vithanage G, Mathews J, Fleming LE, Solo-Gabriele HM.
    Impacts of Hurricane Katrina and Rita on the Microbial Landscape of the New Orleans Area. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, 2007, 104(21): 9029-9034. (PMC1885622)

  10. Vogel C, Rogerson A, Schatz S, Laubach H, Tallman A, Fell JW.
    Prevalence of Yeasts in Beach Sand at Three Bathing Beaches in South Florida. Water Research, 2007, 41:1915-20.
2006  PUBLICATIONS

  1. Backer, LC and McGillicuddy DJ, Jr.
    Harmful Algal Blooms: At the Interface Between Coastal Oceanography and Human Health. Oceanography, 2006, 19 94-106.

  2. Dubey B, Solo-Gabriele HM, Townsend TG.
    Quantities of Arsenic-Treated Wood in Demolition Debris Generated by Hurricane Katrina. Environmental Science & Technology, 2006, 41:5 1533-1536. (PMC 2567428)

  3. Feichter J, Steffen K L, Mooers CNK, Haus, BK.
    Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in a South East Florida Tidal Inlet. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Sciences, 2006, 70: 297-306.

  4. Fleisher JM, Kay D.
    Risk perception bias, self-reporting of Illness, and the validity of reported results in an epidemiologic study of recreational water associated illnesses. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2006, 52: 264-268.

  5. Fleming LE, Broad K, Clement A, Dewailly E, Elmir S, Knap A, Pomponi SA, Smith S, Solo Gabriele HM, Walsh P.
    Oceans and Human Health: Emerging Public Health Risks in the Marine Environment. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2006, 53:545-560. (PMC 2573863)

  6. Fleming LE, Laws E
    Editors. Oceans and Human Volume. Oceanography, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2006.

  7. Fleming LE, Laws E.
    The Overview of Oceans and Human. Oceanography, 2006, 19(2):18-23.

  8. Olascoaga MJ, Rypina II, Brown MG, Beron-Vera FJ, Kocak H, Brand LE, Halliwell GR, Shay LK.
    2006. Persistent transport barrier on the West Florida Shelf. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2006gl027800. (PMC 2613307)
2005  PUBLICATIONS

  1. Goodwin KD, Cotton SA, Scorzetti G, Fell JW.
    A DNA hybridization assay to identify toxic dinoflagellates in coastal waters: detection of Karenia brevis in the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Harmful Algae, 2005, 4:411-422.

  2. LaGier MJ, Scholin CA, Fell JW, Wang J, Goodwin KD.
    An electrochemical RNA hybridization assay for detection of the fecal indicator bacterium Escherichia coli. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2005, 50:1251-1261.
2004  PUBLICATIONS

  1. Fleming LE, Solo Gabriele HM, Elmir S, Shibata T, Squicciarini D, Quirino W, Arguello M, Van De Bogart G.
    A Pilot Study of Microbial Contamination of Subtropical Recreational Waters. Florida Journal of Environmental Health, 2004, 184:29-33.

  2. Shibata T, Solo Gabriele HM, Fleming LE, Elmir S.
    Monitoring Marine Recreational Water Quality Using Multiple Microbial Indicators in an Urban Tropical Environment. Water Research, 2004, 38:3119-3131. (PMC 2548301)
  In Review/Submitted

  1. Brand, L. ,
    Human Exposure to Cyanobacteria and BMAA. 200x. (submitted)

  2. Fleisher JM, Fleming LE, Solo-Gabriele HM, Kish JK, Sinigalliano CD, Plano L, Elmir SM, Wang J, Withum K, Shibata T, Gidley ML, Abdelzaher A, He G, Ortega C, Zhu X, Wright M, Hollenbeck J, Backer LC.
    The BEACHES Study: Health Effects and Exposures from Non-point Source Microbial Contaminants in Subtropical Recreational Marine Waters. Environmental Health Perspectives. (in review)

  3. Hitchcock GL, Kirkpatrick G, Minnett P, Palubok V.
    Community Net Production and Respiration in a Karenia brevis (Davis) bloom on the West Florida shelf. Harmful Algae (in review)

  4. Wright, ME, Solo-Gabriele HM, Abdelzaher AM, Elmir S, Fleming LE,
    200X. The Inter-tidal Zone is the Geographic Location of Elevated Concentrations of Enterococci (In Review).