Position: Professor of Oceanography
(since 1969)
Administrative
Experience:
Director, Rhode Island Sea
Grant College Program, 1984-2000
Education: B.A. (Biology) University
of Delaware, 1965
Ph.D. (Botany-Ecology) University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill,
1970 (under
Prof. H. T. Odum)
Research Interests:
The
ecology of estuaries, bays, lagoons, marshes and other coastal ecosystems. My research is focused on the fundamental processes
that determine the primary and secondary productivity of these environments,
with particular emphasis on the importance of nutrient enrichment and other
forms of anthropogenic impact. The
study of this general problem has required the use of comparative and historical
field data, autecological rate measurements, numerical simulation modeling,
and manipulative ecosystem-level experiments.
Teaching Experience:
Introduction to Oceanography
(undergraduate)
Benthic Ecology (graduate) Ecological
Systems Analysis (graduate)
Ecological Energetics (graduate)
Estuarine Ecology (graduate)
Major
Professor for 14 completed Ph.D. Theses and 11 MS Theses
Recent Awards:
Sea Grant Association (SGA)
Distinguished Service Award given to select individuals in recognition of
their outstanding ability to further the Sea Grant mission, March 2001
New England Estuarine Research
Society award for outstanding contributions to estuarine
research, May 2000
B. H. Ketchum Award for excellence
in coastal research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September
1992
Recent Professional Activities:
Co-editor-in-Chief, ESTUARIES
— the journal of the Estuarine Research Federation (ERF)
Chair, External Review Committee
for the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality and Ecosystem Model
Member,
National Research Council,
Ocean Studies Board
National Research Council,
Committee to Review the Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Analysis (Chair)
National Research Council,
Committee on the Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem (Vice Chair)
Technical Review Team, Hillsborough
River Minimum Flow Determination, Southwest Florida
Water Management District, 1999
Advisor to the United Kingdom on Eutrophication of U.K. estuaries and the North Sea
Outfall
Monitoring Task Force, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
2
Memberships:
American Society of Limnology
and Oceanography
American
Society of Environmental History
Estuarine Research Federation (ERF)
Selected Publications:
Books (selected)
Kremer, J. N. and S. W. Nixon.
1978. A Coastal Marine Ecosystem:
Simulation and Analysis. Ecological Studies, Vol. 24. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. 210 pp. Translated
into Japanese by Kisaburo Nakata.
Published by Seibutu Kenkyusha Publishers, 1987.
Book Chapters (selected)
Nixon, S. W. 1992. Quantifying the relationship between nitrogen
input and the productivity of marine ecosystems, pp. 57-83. In: M.
Takahashi, K. Nakata, and T. R. Parsons (eds.), Proceedings of Advanced Marine Technology Conference (AMTEC), Vol.
5, Tokyo,
Japan.
Technical Reports (selected)
Nixon, S. W., H. Ducklow, E. Hofmann, G. Smith, and G. Gross. 1999. Review
of the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Model. Chesapeake Bay Research Consortium, Edgewater,
MD.
Nixon, S. W. 1995. Metal
inputs to Narragansett Bay A history
and assessment of recent conditions. Section
I: A history of metal inputs to Narragansett
Bay, 109 p. Section II:
Recent metal inputs to Narragansett
Bay, 76 p. Rhode Island Sea Grant,
Narragansett, RI.
Scientific
Journals: (selected)
Nixon, S. W. 1987. Chesapeake
Bay nutrient budgets — a reassessment. Biogeochemistry 4:77-90.
Nixon, S. W. 1988. Physical energy inputs and the comparative
ecology of lake and marine ecosystems. Limnol.
Oceanogr. 33(4, part 2):1005-1025. Translated into Japanese by Masumi Yamamuro and distributed separately
by Ocean Research Inst., University of Tokyo.
Nixon, S. W., S. L. Granger,
D. I. Taylor, P. W. Johnson, and B. A. Buckley. 1994. Subtidal volume fluxes,
nutrient inputs, and the brown tide — an alternate hypothesis. Est. Coast. Shelf Science 39(3):303-312.
Nixon, S. W. 1995. Coastal
marine eutrophication: A definition,
social causes, and future concerns. Ophelia 41:199-219.
Nixon, S. W., S. L. Granger,
and B. L. Nowicki. 1995. An assessment of the annual mass balance of
carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in Narragansett Bay. Biogeochemistry 31:15-61.
Nixon, S. W. et al. 1996. The
fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic
Ocean. Biogeochemistry 35:141-180.
Nixon, S. W. 1997. Prehistoric
nutrient inputs and productivity in Narragansett Bay. Estuaries 20(2):253-261.
Nixon, S. 2001. Some reluctant ruminations on scales (and claws
and teeth) in marine mesocosms. In:
R. H. Gardner, W. M. Kemp, V. S. Kennedy, and J. E. Petersen (eds.),
Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology.
Columbia University Press, NY. In
press.