Dan Childers Vita

Dan Childers, Ph.D.

Southeast Environmental Research Center
and
Department of Biological Sciences
Florida International University
Miami, Florida 33199
(305) 348-3101
FAX (305) 348-4096
childers@fiu.edu
South Florida Wetland Ecosystems Lab Home Page

Education

1983 1985 1989

Experience


1982-1983 1983-1985 1984 1985-1989 1989 1989-1992 1991-92 1991-present 1992-1994 1993-present 1993-present 1993 Chairperson, Equal Employment Opportunities Committee, Southeast Fishery Science Center, NOAA. 1993-present 1994-present 1994-1995 1994-present 1995-present

Technical Experience


1982-1993 SAS (Statistical Analytical Systems) programming experience

1980-1993 BASIC and FORTRAN programming experience

1983-1985 Experience with IBM's CSMP (Continuous Systems Modeling Package)

1982-1989 Mainframe computing experience: IBM 3081, Job Control Language, VSPC and CMS interactive systems

1983-present Microcomputer word processing, data management, and graphics experience with Apple Macintosh and IBM-PC

1983-present Experience in field data collection and sample preparation for most aquatic and wetlands applications.

1985-present Knowledge of a variety of analytical instruments, including: Bausch & Lomb Spectronic 20 and 21 spectrophotometers;

Honors, Awards, and Positions


1976 Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouts of America

1982 Undergraduate Research Grant, Department of Biology, University of Virginia

1985 Elected, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society

1985 Recipient of 4-year Alumni Federation Fellowship, Louisiana State University Alumni Federation

1987 Elected Co-President, Louisiana State University Student Chapter, American Water Resources Association

1987 Student Presentation Award, Ninth Biennial Estuarine Research Federation Meetings (Gulf Estuarine Research Society)

1989 Student Presentation Award, Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Spring Meeting

1989 Student Travel Award, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Spring Meeting

1989 Student Travel Award, Estuarine Research Federation, Tenth Biennial Meetings

1989 Lipsey Award for Excellence in Marine Science, Department of Marine Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

1993-94 Chair, Committee on Equal Employment and Workplace Diversity, Galveston Laboratory, NMFS.

1994 President, Gulf Estuarine Research Society. Elected by membership to 2-year term.

Professional Affiliations



Research Interests




Grants Funded



Students Advised


Jennifer Cutler, Masters Candidate (advisor), Florida International University. Thesis title: "Investigating clonal diversity in Thalassia testudinum populations in Florida Bay".

Susan Dailey, Ph.D. Candidate (advisor), Florida International University. Dissertation title: "Everglades periphyton-soil-macrophyte interactions: Their effect on ecosystem development with P enrichment".

Robert Daoust, Masters Candidate (advisor), Florida International University. Thesis title: "Determination of the effects of phosphorus addition on several Everglades marsh communities".

Steven Davis, Ph.D. Candidate (advisor), Florida International University. Dissertation title: "Transformations and flux of organic materials through a south Florida dwarf/fringe mangrove forest".

John Moorman, Masters Candidate, part-time (advisor), Florida International University

Nicholas Oehm, Masters Candidate (advisor), Florida International University. Thesis title: "The effects of nutrient enrichment on soil microbial processes in mangroves".

Matthew Baber, Ph.D. Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Braxton Davis, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Kate Davis, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University, Thesis title: "Diel ammonium fluxes of selected Caribbean reef corals and algas under non-enriched and mildly enriched conditions", completed December 1996.

Adrian Jelensky, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Zailo Leite, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Eric Pop, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Jay Prakash Sah, Ph.D. Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Gregory Starr, Ph.D. Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Maureen Sullivan, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Ryan Taylor, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Will Van Gelder, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Borys Wenglowskyj, Masters Candidate (on committee), Florida International University

Chris Buzzelli, Ph.D. Candidate (on committee), Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. Dissertation title: "Spatial analysis of habitat patterns and ecosystem processes in the Goodwin Islands, VA", completed August 1996.

Patricia Crotwell, Masters Candidate (on committee), Texas A&M University. Thesis title: "Habitat utilization of a Halodule-Halophila seagrass bed by juvenile pipefish", completed August 1996.

Timothy Delaney, Masters Candidate (on committee), Texas A&M University. Thesis title: "A spatial comparison of natural and created marshes in the Galveston Bay estuary", completed-1994.

Brian Von Gunten, Masters Candidate (on committee), University of Charleston. Thesis title: "Using natural fluorescence to detect coral bleaching on Bahamian coral reefs", degree deferred indefinitely.

University-Level Course Taught

A. Undergraduate level: Ecology (3 times), Ecology Lab (3 times), Marine Ecology (2 times), Marine Ecology Lab (2 times)

B. Graduate level: Coastal Ecosystems and Modelling (3 times), Advanced Ecology - Communities and Ecosystems (2 times), Spatial Analysis and GIS (1 time)

Invited/Thematic Papers Presented


1985 Nutrient variability and subsystem interactions in a southeastern salt marsh. 8th Biennial Meeting, Estuarine Research Federation, Hanover, NH.

1988 Assessment of cumulative impacts in forested wetlands: The Tensas Basin, LA. National Association of Environmental Professionals, Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.

1988 A strategy for quantifying nutrient and materials fluxes in irregularly flooded brackish marshes: Examples from two Louisiana estuaries. 9th Annual Meeting, Society of Wetland Scientists, Washington, D.C.

1988 A method for measuring nutrient and material exchanges in the marshes of Louisiana's Gulf coast estuaries. American Water Resources Association, Baton Rouge, LA.

1989 The great wetland flux contest: Comparing exchanges of nutrients and materials on intertidal seagrass banks and marshes. Department of Marine Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

1989 Marsh-water column interactions in two Louisiana estuaries: Flux measurements and conceptual implications. University of Georgia Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, GA.

1989 Nitrogen exchange processes in forested and coastal wetlands. Division of Pinelands Research, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.

1989 The Chesapeake: An estuary in your back yard. Greater Northern Virginia Kiwanis Club, Annandale, VA.

1991 Using landscape level resource management and cumulative impacts strategies to regulate South Carolina's wetland resource. Governor's Wetlands Advisory Committee, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

1991 A comparison of landscape-level aquatic patterns and water column processes in two estuaries with markedly different watershed characteristics. 11th Biennial International Estuarine Research Federation Conference, San Francisco, CA.

1991 Spatial variability in short-term sediment flux in a southeastern Georgia salt marsh estuary. Coastal Wetland Ecology and Management Symposium, New Orleans, LA.

1992 Spatial variability and the question of scale in estuarine ecosystems and coastal landscapes. Invited Presentation, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

1992 Biotic and abiotic factors relating pattern and process in wetland ecosystems and coastal landscapes. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

1992 Interactions between abiotic development and biotic maturation in transgressive wetland ecosystems and coastal landscapes. Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Morehead City, NC.

1992 A review of marsh-water column interactions in wetlands along the U.S.Gulf of Mexico. INTECOL's 4th Annual International Wetlands Conference, Columbus, OH.

1992 Interactions between abiotic development and biotic maturation in transgressive wetland ecosystems and coastal landscapes. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD.

1993 Coupling remote sensing, GIS, and spatial modelling to address ecosystems-scale fishery questions - A conceptual approach. Ninth Annual Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS for Coastal Management in Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

1993 Subsystem interactions in estuarine ecosystems and coastal landscapes. Department of Biology, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

1993 The importance of tidal range and geologic age as controllers of marsh-water column interactions. 12th Biennial International Estuarine Research Federation Conference, Hilton Head, SC.

1993 Habitat interactions in salt marsh estuaries and coastal landscapes. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia, Savannah, GA.

1994 Subsystem interactions in salt marsh estuaries and coastal landscapes. University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX.

1994 Measuring materials exchanges on intertidal seagrass banks in Florida Bay using throughflow flumes. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Miami, FL.

1994 Successional development of wetland ecosystems in transgressive coastal landscapes. Department of Biology, University of Miami, Miami, FL.

1994 The successional evolution of estuarine wetlands in transgressive coastal settings. Research Lab Seminar, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, FL.

1994 Statistical treatment of scale-dependent aquatic transect data. Everglades Research Group, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL.

1995 Interactions of structure and function in the development of wetland ecosystems. Tropical Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Homestead, FL.

1995 Nutrient exchange between Florida Bay and its salinity transition zone. Everglades Research Group, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL.

1996 Everglades research pertinent to ecological modelling efforts in south Florida. ATLSS-ELM Modeling Coordination Workshop, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach,

1996 Nutrient processing and exchange in northern Florida Bay mangrove forests. Third Workshop on South Florida Nutrient Dynamics, Key Largo, FL.

1996 Nutrient transformations and flux in the mangrove forests of Florida Bay. Invited Dean's Seminar, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Yorktown, VA.

1996 The ecological implications of water management policies along the Everglades-Florida Bay margin. Invited Seminar, FIU Graduate Environmental Engineering Seminar Series.

1996 Wetland-water column interactions and the biogeochemistry of estuary-watershed coupling around the Gulf of Mexico. Invited seminar, Workshop for Authors, Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Cocodrie, LA.

1996 Nutrient exchange between Florida Bay and the Everglades transition zone. 1996 Florida Bay Science Conference, Key Largo, FL, December 1996.

1997 Data synthesis, integration, and modelling in conjunction with the FIU phosphorus dosing flume study. 1997 Florida Dept. Environmental Protection Workshop on Class III Water Quality Criteria Research, February 1997.

1997 Salinity controls on nutrient flux in south Florida mangrove wetlands. University of South Carolina Invited Marine Science Lecturer Series, March 1997.

1998 A review of marsh and estuarine flux studies from the south Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology Conference, Vineland, NJ, April 1998 (accepted).

Papers Presented


1983 The effects of pH on survivorship and growth rate in the fingernail clam Musculium partumeium (Say) (Bivalvia: Pisidiidiae), Virginia Academy of Science Meeting, Fairfax, VA.

1984 A simulation model of salt marsh water column dynamics, Southeastern Estuarine Research Society Meeting, Beaufort, SC.

1984 Data synthesis and preliminary results from a model of salt marsh water column dynamics, Long Term Ecological Research Site Conference, Georgetown, SC.

1985 Subtidal advective water flux as a potentially important nutrient input to southeastern salt marsh estuaries, 40th Annual Meeting, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Minneapolis, MN.

1986 The use of habitat-specific simulation models of estuarine nitrogen cycling for ecosystem management in the Mississippi Deltaic Plain. 10th Annual Meeting, The Coastal Society, New Orleans, LA.

1987 Primary production and marsh-water column exchanges along the salinity gradients of two Louisiana estuaries. 9th Biennial Meeting, Estuarine Research Federation Conference, New Orleans, LA.

1987 A method for directly quantifying nutrient and material exchanges between wetlands and the water column in microtidal Gulf Coast estuaries. Gulf Estuarine Research Society, 9th Biennial Meeting, Estuarine Research Federation, New Orleans, LA.

1988 Cumulative impact assessment in bottomlands of the Tensas Basin, LA: Hydrologic and water quality changes related to forest clearing. Int. Assoc. Landscape Ecology, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.

1988 Marsh creation in coastal Louisiana using sediment fences: Project design and preliminary results. 9th Annual Meeting, Society of Wetland Scientists, Washington, D.C.

1989 Nutrient exchange dynamics on a regularly exposed intertidal seagrass bank in Florida Bay, FL. Spring Meeting, Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Cocodrie, LA.

1989 Relating ephemeral wetland loss in Louisiana estuaries to periodic climatological forcing by El Nino-Southern Oscillation events. Annual Meeting, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Fairbanks, AL.

1989 Water levels and wetland loss: Long-term functional losses related to "habitat dilution" and shortterm "ephemeral" losses related to environmental forcing. 10th Biennial International Estuarine Research Federation Conference, Baltimore, MD.

1989 Intertidal seagrass banks as critical estuarine habitat: Evidence from a nutrient exchange study in Florida Bay, FL. 10th Biennial International Estuarine Research Federation Conference, Baltimore, MD.

1990 A new design for relating landscape-level pattern and ecosystem processes using remotely sensed data and simulation models. Annual Meeting, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Williamsburg, VA.

1990 Pattern and process at the landscape level are detected by simultaneous analysis across both spatial and temporal scales. Fall Meeting, Southeastern Estuarine Research Society, Jekyll Island, GA.

1990 Examining subsystem interactions in a Southeastern salt marsh estuary using a dynamic budget model. Long Term Ecological Research Special Topics seminar, Columbia, SC.

1990 A technique for simultaneous detection of spatial and temporal variability at the landscape level. Special seminar, Graduate Program in Marine Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.

1991 Generating hypotheses about a salt marsh estuarine ecosystem using a dynamic nutrient budget model. Spring Meeting, Southeastern Estuarine Research Society, Gulf Breeze, FL.

1991 Distinguishing spatial and temporal variability in aquatic transect data using a Variable Resolution Pattern Similarity Test. International Association of Landscape Ecology World Congress 1991, Ottawa, Canada.

1991 Spatial variability in marsh-open water interactions in a southeastern Georgia salt marsh estuary. 11th Biennial International Estuarine Research Federation Conference, San Francisco, CA.

1992 Spatial and temporal variability in long-term sediment elevation changes in three mid-Atlantic estuaries. Southeastern Estuarine Research Society and Atlantic Estuarine Research Society Joint Conference, Topsail Beach, NC.

1993 Geomorphology and subsystem interactions in a transgressive salt marsh. American Society of Limnology & Oceanography and Society of Wetland Scientists 1993 Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

1995 Relating Structure and Function Across Spatial Scales in Estuarine Ecosystems. Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Lafayette, LA.

1995 Using multiple spatial indices to relate structure and function in estuarine ecosystems. 13th Biennial International Estuarine Research Federation Conference, Corpus Christi, TX.

1997 Salinity and organic matter transformations as controls on wetland-water column interactions in a south Florida mangrove forest. Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Ocean Springs, MS.

1997 An hierarchical approach to quantifying wetland-water column interactions in south Florida mangrove forest. Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Gulf Springs, MS.

1997 Quantifying the effects of low-level nutrient enrichment on pristine Everglades wetlands in situ flumes and phosphorus dosing. Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.

1997 The exchange of nutrients and materials at the prop root-water interface in red mangroves. Estuarine Research Federation, Providence, RI, October 1997.

Publications

  1. Hornbach, D.J. and D.L.Childers, 1986. Life history variations in a stream population of Musculium partumeium (Bivalvia: Pisidiidae). Jour. North Am.Benthol. Soc. 5:263-271.

  2. Hornbach, D.J. and D.L.Childers, 1987. The effects of acidification on life-history traits of the freshwater clam Musculiumpartumeium Say, (Bivalvia: Pisidiidae). Can. Jour. Zool. 65:113121.

  3. Childers, D.L. and H.N.McKellar, Jr., 1987. A simulation of salt marsh water column dynamics. Ecol. Mod. 36:211-238.

  4. Childers, D.L. and J.W.Day, Jr., 1988. A flow-through flume technique for quantifying nutrient and materials fluxes in microtidal estuaries. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 27(5):483-494.

  5. Childers, D.L., 1989. Marsh-water column exchanges in the Fourleague Bay estuary. In [J.W.Day and W.H.Conner, eds.] Phvsical Processes, Ecological Dvnarnics. and Management Implications: Results of Research in the Atchafalaya Bay Delta. LA. LSU Seagrant College Program Report, pp. 53-57.

  6. Childers, D.L, J.G.Gosselink, and M. Koch, 1989. Assessment of cumulative impacts to water quality in a forested wetland landscape. In: [J.G.Gosselink, G.P.Shaffer, L.C.Lee, D.Burdick, D.Childers, N.Taylor, S.Hamilton, R.Boumanns, D.Cushman, S.Fields, M.Koch, and J.Visser, contributors] Cumulative impact assessment and management in a forested wetland watershed in the Mississippi River flood plain. Marine Sciences Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. LSU-CEI-89-02. pp. 69-90.

  7. Whiting, G. and D.L.Childers, 1989. Subtidal advective water as a potentially important nutrient input to southeastern U.S.A. salt marsh estuaries. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 28:417-431.

  8. Gosselink, J.G.,L.C.Lee, R.Boumanns, D.Burdick, D.Childers, D.Cushman, S.Fields, S.Hamilton, M.Koch, G.P.Shaffer, N.Taylor, and J.Visser, 1989. Cumulative impact assessment and management in bottomlands of the Tensas Basin, LA. In: J.C.Lefeuvre [ed.] Conservation and Development: The Sustainable use of Wetland Resources. Proc. 3rd Int. Wetl. Conf., Rennes, France. p. 53-54.

  9. Childers, D.L. and J.G.Gosselink, 1990. Assessment of cumulative impacts to water quality in a forested wetland landscape. Jour. Environ. Qual. 19(3):455-464.

  10. Gosselink, J.G., Gary P.Shaffer, Lyndon C.Lee, David Burdick, Daniel Childers, Nancy Liebowicz, Susan Hamilton, Roel Boumanns, Douglas Cushman, Sherri Fields, Marguerite Koch, and Jenneke Visser, 1990. Can we manage cumulative impacts? Experience from a forested wetland watershed. Bioscience 40(8):588-600.

  11. Childers, D.L. and J.W.Day, Jr., 1990. Marsh-water column interactions in two Louisiana estuaries. I. Sediment dynamics. Estuaries 13(3):393-403.

  12. Childers, D.L. and J.W.Day, Jr., 1990. Marsh-water column interactions in two Louisiana estuaries. II. Nutrient dynamics. Estuaries 13(3):404-417.

  13. Childers, D.L., J.W.Day, Jr., and R.L.Muller, 1990. Relating climatological forcing to coastal water levels in Louisiana estuaries and the potential importance of El Nino-Southern Oscillation events. Climate Res. 1(1):31-42.

  14. Childers, D.L. and J.W.Day, Jr., 1991. The dilution and loss of wetland function associated with conversion to open water. Wetl. Ecology and Manage. 3:163-171.

  15. Sklar, F.H., R.Costanza, D.L.Childers, E.B.DeBellevue, M.S.Jacobsen, T.Maxwell, and M.L.White, 1992. Developments in regional scale simulation and analysis: Case studies from coastal wetland ecosystems. In: R.B.Singh [ed.], Environmental Monitoring--Application of Remote Sensing and GIS.

  16. Dame, R., D.L.Childers, and E.T.Koopfler, 1992. A geohydrologic continuum theory for the spatial and temporal evolution of marsh-estuarine ecosystems. Neth. J. Sea Res. 30:63-72.

  17. Childers, D.L., H.N.McKellar, Jr., R. Dame, F.Sklar, and E.Blood, 1993. A dynamic nutrient budget of subsystem interactions in a salt marsh estuary. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 36: 105- 131.

  18. Childers, D.L., 1994. Fifteen years of marsh flumes - A review of marsh-water column interactions in Southeastern USA estuaries. In: [W.Mitsch, ea.] Global Wetlands. Elsevier Publ., Amsterdam p. 277-294.

  19. Childers, D.L., S.Cofer-Shabica, and L.Nakashima, 1993. Spatial and temporal variability in marshwater column interactions in a Georgia salt marsh. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 95(1,2):25-38.

  20. Childers, D.L., F.H.Sklar, B.Drake, and T.Jordan, 1993. Seasonal measurements of sediment elevation in three Mid-Atlantic estuaries. Jour. Coastal Res. 9(4):986-1003.

  21. Childers, D.L., F.H.Sklar, and S.E.Hutchinson, 1994. The collection and statistical treatment of scaledependent aquatic transect data in estuarine landscapes. Landscape Ecol. 9(2):127-141.

  22. Cofer-Shabica, S., L.D.Nakashima, J.W.Day, Jr., and D.L.Childers, 1993. Assessment of technological approaches to measuring wetlands changes and their implications for developing management strategies. In: [O.T.Magoon, W.S.Wilson, H.Converse, and L.T.Tobin, eds.] Coastal Zone '93, ASCE, New York, NY. p. 2126-2137.

  23. Day, J.W., C.J.Madden, R.R. Twilley, R.F. Shaw, B.A. McKee, M.J. Dagg, D.L. Childers, R.C. Raynie, and L.J. Rouse, 1995. The influence of Atchafalaya River discharge on Fourleague Bay, Louisiana (USA). In [K.R.Dyer and R.J.Orth, eds.] Changes in Fluxes in Estuaries, ECSA 22/ERF Symposium Series, Olsen and Olsen Publ, Fredensborg, Denmark. pp.151-160.

  24. Childers, D.L., C.J.Madden, and J.W.Day, Jr., 1996. Materials fluxes between Fourleague Bay and adjacent wetlands. In [J.W.Day, ea.] Aspects of the Atchafalaya Delta Region of Coastal Louisiana. LSU Seagrant College Program Report.

  25. Childers, D.L., 1997. A review of Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMSP and Related Sulfonium Compounds, R.P. Kiene P.T. Visscher, M.D. Keller, and G.O. Kirst, Eds. Estuaries 20(2):465.

  26. Doren, R.F., D.L. Childers, T.V. Armentano, M. Norland, W.J. Platt, C. Horwitz, and B. Sparkman, 1997. Restoring wetlands on abandoned agricultural lands in Everglades National Park: A strategic plan for guiding research, monitoring, and management of the "Hole in the Donut" restoration program. South Florida Natural Resources Center Tech. Report 97-002. 35 pp.

  27. Childers, D.L., S.Davis, V.Rivera-Monroy, and R.R.Twilley, 1997. Wetland-water column interactions and the biogeochemistry of estuary-watershed coupling around the Gulf of Mexico. In [ T.S. Bianchi and R.Twilley, eds.]: Biogeochemistrv of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY. (in press).

  28. Doren, R.F., D.L. Childers, T.V. Armentano, M. Norland, W.J. Platt, C. Horwitz, and B. Sparkman, 1997. Restoring wetlands on abandoned agricultural lands in Everglades National Park: A strategic plan for guiding research, monitoring, and management of the "Hole in the Donut" restoration program. South Florida Natural Resources Center Tech. Report 97-002. 35 pp.

  29. Daoust, R. and D.L.Childers, in review. Quantifying aboveground biomass and estimating productivity in nine Everglades wetland macrophytes using a non-destructive allometric approach. Aquatic Botany.

  30. Daoust, R. and D.L.Childers, in review. The importance of considering intra-annual variability in vascular tissue nutrient content when assessing ecosystem nutritional status using C:N:P ratios. Wetlands.

  31. Rudnick, D., Z. Chen, D. Childers, J.Boyer, and T. Fontaine, in review. Phosphorus and nitrogen inputs to Florida Bay: the importance of the Everglades watershed. Target journal: Estuaries.

  32. Childers, D.L. and J.W. Day, Jr., in prep. A review of marsh and estuarine flux studies from the south Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. In: [M.P. Weinstein and D.Q. Kreeger, eds.] Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology.

  33. Childers, D.L., R.Boumans, S.Cofer-Shabica, J.Day, L.Nakashima, and D.Reed, in prep. Controls on sediment dynamics at several scales in salt marshes of different ages. Target journal: Jour. Coastal Res.

  34. Childers, D.L., in prep. Sedimentological and environmental factors that control wetland-water column exchanges in salt marsh estuaries. Target journal: Mangroves and Salt Marshes.

  35. Day, J., L.Nakashima, R.Boumans, D.L. Childers, S.Cofer-Shabica, and D.Reed, in prep. A sedimentological basis for wetland management in saltmarsh-dominated estuaries. Target journal: Ecol. Applications.

  36. Reeder, B.C., M.D. Quillen, F.H.Sklar, and D.L.Childers, in prep. Nutrient dynamics at the sedimentwater interface of tidal creeks in the North Inlet, SC estuary. Biogeochemistry.

  37. Fourqurean, J.W. and D.L. Childers, in prep. The importance of nutrient fluxes on intertidal seagrass banks to nutrient dynamics in Florida Bay, FL.

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