Publications

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Manuscripts

• Seagrass ecosystem recovery: experimental removal and synthesis of disturbance studies. Tassone, S. J., C. J. Ewers Lewis, K. J. McGlathery, M. L. Pace. Limnology & Oceanography, In press.

• Increased frequency of sediment heatwaves in a Virginia seagrass meadow. 2024; Tassone, S. J. and M. L. Pace. Estuaries and Coasts 47: 656-669

• 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. Estuaries and Coasts 47: 18-31

• 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 & Oceanography Bulletin 

• 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

• 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 & Oceanography Letters 8(2): 295-304

  • UVA Office of Advancement story about this publication

  • 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

• 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 & Oceanography: Methods 20(6) 338-349

• 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)

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Tassone, S. J. and M. L. Pace. 2023. Literature survey of seagrass disturbance-recovery studies up to May 2022. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/180693d22a3eb8c16b1092e7fa7a3e31

• Tassone, S. J. and M. L. Pace. 2023. Sediment elevation transects for the Seagrass Recovery Experiment, South Bay, VA 2022. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c39278c86fe45533e5ffb00371c1846c