Publications

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*Indicates a student or post-doctoral researcher who I mentored.  

·   *Shrestha, S., Liu, B., Li, J., Huang, W., Baustian, M.M., D'Sa, E.J., Bargu, S., Messina, F., Georgiou, I.Y., Kumar, A., Freeman, A., and Mize, S., 2025. Phytoplankton biomass dynamics in wet (2019) and dry (2023) years in Lake Pontchartrain estuary, Louisiana from Sentinel 2-MSI and PACE-OCI observations: Science of The Total Environment, v. 1011, art. 181126, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.181126 

·  Oster, J., Henkel, J.R., Dausman, A., Windhoffer, E., *Liu, B., Baustian, M.M., Reed, D., Langlois, S., and D. Lindquist. 2025. Advancing the implementation of coastal restoration in Louisiana through a co-production of science framework. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01584-3 

·  Lamont, M.M., Osland, M.J. and M.M. Baustian. 2025. Salt marsh habitats and diamondback terrapins in a rapidly changing climate: A review.  Estuaries and Coasts.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01466-0 

·  Baustian, M.M., Jung, H.,*Liu, B., Moss, L., Foster-Martinez, M., Esposito, C., Georgiou, I.Y., Bregman, M., Di Leonardo, D., McMann, B., Hemmerling, S.A, and M.D. Miner. 2024. Current and future potential net greenhouse gas sinks of existing, converted, and restored marsh and mangrove forest habitats. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14259 

·  *Deitrick, A.R, Ralston, D.K, Esposito, C.R., Baustian, M.M., Beltrán-Burgos, M., Courtois, A.J., and H. Nepf. 2024. Vegetation-generated turbulence does not impact the erosion of natural cohesive sediment. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109730 

·  Freiss, D.A., Shribman, Z.I., Stankovic, M., Iram, N., Baustian, M.M., Ewers Lewis, C.J. 2024. Restoring blue carbon ecosystems. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2024.9 

·  Creamer C.A., Waldrop M.P, Stagg C.L., Manies K.L., Baustian M.M., Laurenzano C., Aw T.G., Haw M., Merino S.L. Schoolmaster Jr. D.R., Sevilgen S., Villani R.K., Ward E.J. 2024. Plant death following vertical drowning of Mississippi River Deltaic wetlands leads to faster microbial decomposition and loss of stored soil carbon. Journal Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007832 

·  *Loesser, K.B., *Powell, C.E., *Davis, B., Baustian, M.M., and M.J. Polito. 2024. Stable isotopes reveal that foraging strategy dictates salt marsh residents’ trophic response to black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) range expansion. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14500 

·  *Liu, B., D’Sa, E.J., Messina, F., Baustian, M.M., Maiti, K., Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Huang, W. and I.Y. Georgiou. 2023. Dissolved organic carbon dynamics and fluxes in Mississippi-Atchafalaya deltaic system impacted by an extreme flood event and hurricanes: A multi-satellite approach using Sentinel-2/3 and Landsat-8/9 Data. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1159367 

·  Jung, H., Nuttle, W., Baustian, M.M., and T. Carruthers. 2023. Influence of increased freshwater inflow on nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in a dynamic subtropical estuary, Barataria Basin, Louisiana. Water 15: 1974. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15111974. 

·  *Beltrán-Burgos, M., Esposito, C.R., Nepf, H.M, Baustian, M.M., and D.R. Di Leonardo. 2023. Vegetation-driven seasonal sediment dynamics in a freshwater marsh of the Mississippi River Delta. JGR Biogeosciences 128, no. 4: e2022JG007143. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007143. 

·  Hemmerling S.A., DeMyers, C., Parfait, J, Piñero, E., Baustian M.M., Bregman, M., Di Leonardo D., Esposito, C., Georgiou, I.Y., Grismore, A., Jung, H., McMann, B., and M.D. Miner. 2023. A community-informed transdisciplinary approach to coastal restoration planning: Maximizing the social and ecological co-benefits of wetland creation in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, USA. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11:1105671. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1105671 

·  Baustian, M.M., *Liu, B., Moss, L., Dausman, A., and J.W. Pahl. 2023. Climate change mitigation potential of Louisiana’s coastal area: Current Estimates and Future Projections. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2847. 

·  Schoolmaster, D.R., Stagg, C.L., Creamer, C., Laurenzano, C., Ward, E.J., Waldrop, M.J., Baustian, M.M., Aw, T.G., Merino, S., Villani, R., and L. Scott. 2022. A model of the spatiotemporal dynamics of soil carbon following coastal wetland loss applied to a Louisiana salt marsh in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain. JGR Biogeosciences.

·        Mavrommati, G. and Baustian, M.M. 2022. Linking water purification and waste treatment to human wellbeing. The Encyclopedia of Conservation: Imperiled Ecosystems and Species. Elsevier.

·        La Peyre, M.K., Sable, S., Taylor, C., Kiskaddon, E., and M.M. Baustian. 2021.  Effects of sample gear on estuarine fish assemblage assessments and food web models. Ecological Indicators. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108404

·        Carruthers, T.J., Kiskaddon, E., Baustian, M.M., Darnell, K.M., Moss, L., Perry, C.L., and C. Stagg. 2021. Tradeoffs in habitat value to maximize natural resource benefits from coastal restoration in a rapidly eroding wetland: is monitoring land area sufficient? Restoration Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13564

·         Wiesenburg, D.A., Shipp, B. Wilson, C., Fodrie, J., Powers, S., Latrigue, J., Darnell, K.M., Baustian, M.M., Ngo, C., Valentine, J.F. and K. Wowk. 2021. Prospects for Gulf of Mexico Environmental Recovery and Restoration. Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.124

·         Baustian, M.M., Stagg, C.L, Perry, C.L., Moss, L.C., and Carruthers, T.J.B. 2021. Long-term carbon sinks in marsh soils of the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain are at risk to wetland loss.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005832

·         Barra, M., Hemmerling, S and Baustian, M.M. 2020. A model controversy: Using environmental competency groups to inform coastal restoration planning in Louisiana. Professional Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2020.1777574

·         N.N. Rabalais and Baustian, M.M. 2020. Historical shifts in benthic infaunal diversity in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the appearance of seasonally severe hypoxia.  Diversity. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12020049

·         Baustian, M.M., Brooks, Y.M., Baskaran, M., Liu, B., Ostrom, N.E., Stevenson, R.J. and J.B. Rose. 2020.  Paleo-environmental examination of human-driven ecosystem change in Lake St. Clair region of Laurentian Great Lakes basin. Journal of Paleolimnology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-019-00108-x

·         Baustian, M.M, Jung, H., Bienn, H., Barra, M., Hemmerling, S. Wang, Y., White, E., and E. Meselhe. 2020. Engaging coastal community members about natural and nature-based solutions and assessing their ecosystem functions. Ecological Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoena.2019.100015

·         Meselhe, E., Wang, Y., White, E., Jung, H., Baustian, M.M., Hemmerling, S.A., Barra, M., and H. Bienn. 2020. Knowledge-Based predictive tools to assess effectiveness of natural and nature-based solutions for coastal restoration and protection planning. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 146(2): https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001659.

·         Hemmerling, S.A., Barra, M., Bienn, H.C., Baustian, M.M., Jung, H., Meselhe, E., Wang, Y. and E. White. 2019. Elevating local knowledge through participatory modeling: Active community engagement in restoration planning in coastal Louisiana. Journal of Geographical Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-019-00313-2.

·         Baustian, M.M. Meselhe, E., Jung, H., Sadid, K, Duke- Sylvester, S., Visser, J., Allison, M., Moss, L., Ramatchandirane, C, van Maren, B., Jeuken, M., and Bargu, S. 2018. Development of an Integrated Biophysical Model to represent morphological and ecological processes in a changing deltaic and coastal ecosystem. Environmental Modeling and Software. 109:402-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.05.019

·         Baustian, M.M., Bargu, S., Rabalais, N.N, and W.L. Morrison. 2018. The polychaete, Paraprionospio pinnata, is a likely vector of domoic acid to the benthic food web in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Harmful Algae. 79:44-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2018.06.002

·         Stagg, C., Baustian, M.M., Perry, C., Carruthers, T. and Hall, C. 2018.  Direct and indirect controls on organic matter decomposition in four coastal wetland communities along a landscape salinity gradient. Journal of Ecology. 106:655-670. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12901/full

·         Baustian, M.M., Clark, R. Jerabek, A.S., Wang, Y. Bienn, H.C., White, E.D. 2018.  Modeling current and future freshwater inflow needs of a subtropical estuary to manage and maintain forested wetland ecological conditions. Ecological Indicators. 85:791-807. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X17306295

·         Price, A., Baustian, M.M., Turner, R.E. Rabalais, N.N., Chmura, G. 2017. Dinoflagellate cysts track eutrophication in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Estuaries and Coasts. 41:1322-1336. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-017-0351-x

·         Baustian, M.M., Stagg, C.L, Perry, C.L., Moss, L.C., Carruthers, T.J.B., and M. Allison. 2017. Short-term soil carbon accumulation rates from marsh types across a salinity gradient suggest implications of climate change. Wetlands. 37:313-324. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13157-016-0871-3

·         Brooks, Y.M., Baustian, M.M., Baskaran, M., Ostrom, N.E. and J. B. Rose. 2016. Historic associations of fecal indicator marker concentrations to anthropogenic activities and climate in freshwater sediment cores. Environmental Science and Technology. 50:6902-6911.  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.6b01372

·         Price, A., Baustian, M.M., Turner, R.E. Rabalais, N.N., Chmura, G. 2016. Melitasphaeridium choanophorum – a living dinoflagellate cyst fossil in the Gulf of Mexico. Palynology.  41:351-358. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01916122.2016.1205676

·         Bargu, S., Baustian, M.M., Rabalais, N.N., Del Rio, R., Von Korff, B., and R.E. Turner. 2016. Influence of the Mississippi River on Pseudo-nitzschia spp. abundance and toxicity in Louisiana coastal waters. Estuaries and Coasts. 39:1345-1356.  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-016-0088-y

·         Baustian, M.M., Hansen, G., de Kluijver, A., Robinson, K., Henry Norton, E., Knoll, L., Rose, K, and C. Carey. 2014. Linking the bottom to the top in aquatic ecosystems: mechanisms and stressors of benthic-pelagic coupling. Invited Eco-DAS X chapter for Association for Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography e-book. http://www.aslo.org/books/ecodas10/ecodas10_025.pdf

·         Monk, M.H., Baustian, M.M., Saari, C.R., Welsh, S., D’Elia, C., Gaston, S., and J.E. Powers. 2014. EnvironMentors: mentoring at-risk high school students through university partnerships. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education. 9:385-397. http://www.ijese.com/ijese.2014.223a.pdf

·         Hansen, G.A., Sadro, S., Baustian, M.M., and B. Stauffer. 2014. Shifting career pathways of Ph.D. ecologists: Is it time to redefine the “alternative” career? Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. 23:2-5. http://aslo.org/bulletin/issues/14_v23_i1.pdf

·         Baustian, M.M., Mavrommati, G., Dreelin, E.A., Esselman, P., Schultze, S., Qian, L. Aw, T.G Luo, L. and J.B. Rose. 2014. A one hundred year review of the socioeconomic and ecological systems in Lake St. Clair, North America. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 40:15-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2013.11.006

·         Mavrommati, G., Baustian, M.M. and E. Dreelin. 2013. Coupling Socioeconomic and Lake Systems for Sustainability: A Conceptual Analysis Using Lake St. Clair Region as a Case Study. Ambio 43:275-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-013-0432-4

·         Baustian, M.M., Rabalais, N.N., Morrison, W.L. and R.E. Turner. 2013. Microphytobenthos along the Louisiana continental shelf during mid-summer hypoxia. Continental Shelf Research.52:108-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2012.10.014

·         Baustian, M.M., Rabalais, N.N., Morrison, W.L. and R.E. Turner. 2011. Seasonal microphytobenthos on the hypoxic northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 436:51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09262

·         Qian, S.S., Craig, J.K., Baustian, M.M. and N.N. Rabalais. 2009. A Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach for analyzing observational data from marine ecological studies. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 58:1916–1921.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2009.09.029

·         Baustian, M.M., Craig, J.K. and N.N. Rabalais. 2009.  Effects of summer 2003 hypoxia on macrobenthos and Atlantic croaker foraging selectivity in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.  381:S31-S37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2009.07.007

·         Baustian, M.M. and N.N. Rabalais. 2009. Seasonal composition of benthic macroinfauna exposed to hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Estuaries and Coasts. 32:975–983. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-009-9187-3

·         Baustian, M.M., Bentley, S.J. and J.H. Wandersee. 2008. Innovative assessment tools for a short, fast-paced, summer field course. Journal of College Science Teaching. 37:37-43.  http://learningcenter.nsta.org/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/4/jcst08_037_06_37

·         Millman, M., Teichberg, M, Martinetto, P and I. Valiela.  2002. Response of shrimp populations to land-derived nitrogen in Waquoit Bay. Biological Bulletin. 203:263-264 http://www.biolbull.org/content/203/2/263.full.pdf+html