Publications by William & Mary Undergraduates

Since 2017

This is a list of peer-reviewed marine-science publications by William & Mary and VIMS faculty, staff, and students which were lead or co-authored by a scientist who contributed to the science and/or publication as a William & Mary undergraduate. Click on the paper title for a link to the publication.

BOLDED Name - W&M Undergraduate Student

2024

Heminway, S.S., Cohn, N., Davis, E.H., White, A., Hein, C.J., & Zinnert, J.C. (2024). Exploring Ecological, Morphological, and Environmental Controls on Coastal Foredune Evolution at Annual Scales Using a Process-Based Model. Sustainability, 16, 3460.

Hein, C.J., Connell, J.E., FitzGerald, D.M., Georgiou, I.Y., Hughes, Z., & King, K. (2024). Vertical accretion trends project doughnut-like fragmentation of saltmarshes, Communications: Earth & Environment, 5, 74.

2023

Gilsinan, C.B., Borsetti, S., Munroe, D.M., & Scheld, A.M. (2023). Hatchery capacity needed to support large-scale Atlantic surfclam fishery enhancement. Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, doi: 10.1002/aff2.144.

Heminway, S.S., Davis, E.H., Cohn, N., Skaden, J., Anderson, D., & Hein, C.J. (2023). Modeled changes in foredune morphology influenced by variable storm intensity and sea-level rise, In: Coastal Sediments ’23: Proceedings of the 13^th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 684-697.

Schneider, A.K., Pomroy, A.K., & Shields, J.D. (2023). Prevalence, intensity, and biomarker potential of the nemertean worm, Carcinonemertes carcinophila, on blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, in Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 43(4), 1–12.

Davis, E.H., Cohn, N., Heminway, S.S., Skaden, J., & Hein, C.J. (2023). Linking internal coastal foredune moisture dynamics to erosion vulnerability, In: Coastal Sediments ’23: Proceedings of the 13^th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 656-669.

2022

Hall, E.A., Molino, G.D., Messerschmidt, T.C., & Kirwan, M.L. (2022). Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts. Anthropocene, 40, p.100350.

Harris, C., Wacht, J., Fair, M., & Cote, J. (2022). ADCP observations of currents and suspended sediment in the macrotidal Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar. Frontiers in Earth Science, 507.

Levine, A. J., Turrietta, E. M., Bilkovic, D. M., & Chambers, R. M. (2022). Demographic and Trophic Analysis of Adult Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) from Living Shoreline and Natural Tidal Marshes in the Chesapeake Bay. Northeastern Naturalist, 29(2), 207-228.

Robbins, M. G., Shawler, J. L., & Hein, C. J. (2022). Contribution of longshore sand exchanges to mesoscale barrier-island behavior: Insights from the Virginia Barrier Islands, US East Coast. Geomorphology, 403, 108163.

2021

Ashey, J., & Rivest, E. B. (2021). Effect of environmental history on the physiology and acute stress response of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 674, 115-130.

FitzGerald, D. M., Hein, C. J., Connell, J. E., Hughes, Z. J., Georgiou, I. Y., & Novak, A. B. (2021). Largest marsh in New England near a precipice. Geomorphology, 379, 107625.

Gillen, M. N., Messerschmidt, T. C., & Kirwan, M. L. (2021). Biophysical controls of marsh soil shear strength along an estuarine salinity gradient. Earth Surface Dynamics, 9(3), 413-421.

Himmelstein, J., Vinent, O. D., Temmerman, S., & Kirwan, M. L. (2021). Mechanisms of pond expansion in a rapidly submerging marsh. Frontiers in Marine Science, 1228.

Jung, J., Gillevet, P. M., Sikaroodi, M., Andrews, J., Song, B., & Shields, J. D. (2021). Comparative study of the hemolymph microbiome between live and recently dead American lobsters Homarus americanus. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 143, 147-158.

Onofrio, M. D., Egerton, T. A., Reece, K. S., Pease, S. K., Sanderson, M. P., Jones III, W., Yeargan, E., Roach, A., DeMent, C., Wood, A., Reay, W. G., Place, A. R, & Smith, J. L. (2021). Spatiotemporal distribution of phycotoxins and their co-occurrence within nearshore waters. Harmful Algae, 103, 101993.

Pease, S. K., Reece, K. S., O'Brien, J., Hobbs, P. L., & Smith, J. L. (2021). Oyster hatchery breakthrough of two HABs and potential effects on larval eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica). Harmful Algae, 101, 101965.

Shawler, J. L., Ciarletta, D. J., Connell, J. E., Boggs, B. Q., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., & Hein, C. J. (2021). Relative influence of antecedent topography and sea-level rise on barrier-island migration. Sedimentology, 68(2), 639-669.

Shawler, J. L., Hein, C. J., Obara, C. A., Robbins, M. G., Huot, S., & Fenster, M. S. (2021). The effect of coastal landform development on decadal-to millennial-scale longshore sediment fluxes: Evidence from the Holocene evolution of the central mid-Atlantic coast, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 267, 107096.

Vinent, O. D., Herbert, E. R., Coleman, D. J., Himmelstein, J. D., & Kirwan, M. L. (2021). Onset of runaway fragmentation of salt marshes. One Earth, 4(4), 506-516.

2020

Crear, D. P., Brill, R. W., Averilla, L. M., Meakem, S. C., & Weng, K. C. (2020). In the face of climate change and exhaustive exercise: the physiological response of an important recreational fish species. Royal Society open science, 7(3), 200049.

Failon, C. M., Wittyngham, S. S., & Johnson, D. S. (2020). Ecological associations of Littoraria irrorata with Spartina cynosuroides and Spartina alterniflora. Wetlands, 40(5), 1317-1325.

Jones, S. T., Asher, J. M., Boland, R. C., Kanenaka, B. K., & Weng, K. C. (2020). Fish biodiversity patterns of a mesophotic-to-subphotic artificial reef complex and comparisons with natural substrates. Plos one, 15(4), e0231668.

Thibodeau, P. S., Steinberg, D. K., McBride, C. E., Conroy, J. A., Keul, N., & Ducklow, H. W. (2020). Long-term observations of pteropod phenology along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 166, 103363.

2019

Hein, C. J., Fallon, A. R., Rosen, P., Hoagland, P., Georgiou, I. Y., FitzGerald, D. M., Morris, M., Baker, S., Marino, G. B., & Fitzsimons, G. (2019). Shoreline dynamics along a developed river mouth barrier island: Multi-decadal cycles of erosion and event-driven mitigation. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 103.

Shawler, J. L., Hein, C. J., Canuel, E. A., Kaste, J. M., Fitzsimons, G. G., Georgiou, I. Y., & Willard, D. A. (2019). Tidal erosion and upstream sediment trapping modulate records of land-use change in a formerly glaciated New England estuary. Anthropocene Coasts, 2(1), 340-361.

2018

Barris, B. N., Shields, J. D., Small, H. J., Huchin-Mian, J. P., O'leary, P., Shawver, J. V., Glenn, R. P., & Pugh, T. L. (2018). Laboratory studies on the effect of temperature on epizootic shell disease in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Bulletin of Marine Science, 94(3), 887-902.

Raff, J. L., Shawler, J. L., Ciarletta, D. J., Hein, E. A., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., & Hein, C. J. (2018). Insights into barrier-island stability derived from transgressive/regressive state changes of Parramore Island, Virginia. Marine Geology, 403, 1-19.

2017

Deaton, C. D., Hein, C. J., & Kirwan, M. L. (2017). Barrier island migration dominates ecogeomorphic feedbacks and drives salt marsh loss along the Virginia Atlantic Coast, USA. Geology, 45(2), 123-126.

Smith, W. O., Delizo, L. M., Herbolsheimer, C., & Spencer, E. (2017). Distribution and abundance of mesozooplankton in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 40(12), 2351-2361.