Publications

Manuscripts (Google Scholar Profile)

1. Sediment heatwaves increase in frequency in a Virginia seagrass meadow. S. J. Tassone and M. L. Pace. In review: Estuaries & Coasts

2. Quantifying disturbance and recovery in estuaries: tropical cyclones and high-frequency measures of oxygen and salinity. 2023; Buelo, C. D., A. F. Besterman, J. A. Walter, M. L. Pace, D. T. Ha, S. J. Tassone. In press: Estuaries & Coasts.

3. Better Together: Early career aquatic scientists forge new connections at Eco-DAS XV. 2023; Graham, O. J., A. Al-Haj, [and 35 others including S. J. Tassone]. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 

4. Rising watershed and bay temperatures: ecological implications and management responses - a STAC Workshop. 2023; Batiuk, R., Brownson, K., Dennison, W., Ehrhart, M., Hanson, J., Landry, B., Reichert-Nguyen, J., Soueidan, J., Tassone, S., Vogt, B. STAC Publication Number 23-001. Edgewater, MD.

   • Chesapeake Bay Journal quoted text about riverine heatwaves

5. Increasing heatwave frequency in streams and rivers of the United States. 2022; Tassone, S. J., A. F. Besterman, C. D. Buelo, D. T. Ha, J. A. Walter, M. L. Pace. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 8(2): 295-304

   • Utah Public Radio interview on riverine heatwaves

   • Fox Weather interview on riverine heatwaves

   • Science News magazine story about this publication

   • UVA Today story about this publication

   • Cavalier Daily story about this publication

   • Rath Public Service Research Award

6. An algorithm for detecting and quantifying disturbance and recovery in high-frequency time series. 2022; Walter, J. A., A. F. Besterman, C. D. Buelo, S. J. Tassone, J. Atkins, M. L. Pace. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 20(6) 338-349

7. Co-occurrence of aquatic heatwaves with atmospheric heatwaves, low dissolved oxygen, and low pH events in estuarine ecosystems. 2022; Tassone, S. J., A. F. Besterman, C. D. Buelo, J. A. Walter, M. L. Pace. Estuaries and Coasts 45(3) 707-720

   • Podcast interview on Estuarine Heatwaves with The Coastal Current Podcast (Episode 3)

8. The influence of storm events on metabolism and water quality of riverine and estuarine segments of the James, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey rivers. 2020; Bukaveckas, P. A., S. J. Tassone, W. Lee, R. B. Franklin. Estuaries and Coasts 43(7) 1585-1602

• Awarded the Editor's Choice for Volume 43 Issue 7 of the journal Estuaries and Coasts.

9. Seasonal, interannual, and longitudinal patterns in estuarine metabolism derived from diel oxygen data using multiple computational approaches. 2019; Tassone, S. J., P. A. Bukaveckas. Estuaries and Coasts 42(4) 1032-1051

10. Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins at the river-estuarine transition. 2018; Bukaveckas, P. A., R. B. Franklin, S. J. Tassone, B. Trache, T. Egerton. Harmful Algae 76, 11-21

11. On the use of climate covariates in aquatic species distribution models: are we at risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water? 2018; McGarvey, D. J., M. Menon, T. Woods, S. J. Tassone, J. Reese, M. Vergamini, E. Kellogg. Ecography 41(4) 695-712

12. Microcystin in aquatic food webs of the Baltic and Chesapeake Bay regions. 2017; Bukaveckas, P. A., J. Lesutiene, Z. R. Gasiunaite, L. Lozys, I. Olenina, R. Pilkaityte, Z. Putys, S. J. Tassone, J. Wood. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 191, 50-59

13. Biotransport of algal toxins to riparian food webs. 2016; Moy, N. J., J. Dodson, S. J. Tassone, P. A. Bukaveckas, L. P. Bulluck. Environmental Science & Technology 50(18) 10007-10014 

• Awarded the Thrid-Runner Up Best Environmental Science Paper of 2016 for the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Datasets

• Tassone, S. J. and M.L. Pace. 2023. High-frequency water and sediment temperature from the Seagrass Recovery Experiment, South Bay, VA 2020-2022 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/9d0556bf46a3a79b6bde96003529f407

• Tassone, S. J. and M.L. Pace. 2023. Seagrass shoot density and benthic chlorophyll density from the Seagrass Recovery Experiment, South Bay, VA 2020-2022 ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/ab8241aa642bd1d83adbd823f42526b4

• Tassone, S. J. and M.L. Pace. 2023. Surface water quality from the Seagrass Recovery Experiment, South Bay, VA 2020-2022 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/2c72655635d341114648e73834c52d73