Lake Erie Center
: Publications

Research Publications Involving The Lake Erie Center and its Scientific Advisory Board Researchers Since 2000

(Bold= Lake Erie Center researchers, ***=postdoctoral researchers, **= graduate students, *= undergraduate students)

• Ault, T., K.P. Czajkowski, T. Benko, J. Coss, J. Struble, A. Spongberg, M. Templin, and C. Gross.*  2006.  Validation of the MODIS Snow Product (MOD10) and cloud mask using student and NWS cooperative station observations.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 105:341-353.
  
• Benedict, M.**, R.H. Fortney, and J. F. Gottgens. Successional Development of Cambarazal Forests (Vochysia divergens Pohl) in the Northern Pantanal of Brazil. Wetlands. (in revision).
  
• Bobeldyk, A.M, J.M. Bossenbroek, M.A. Evan-White, D.M Lodge and G.A. Lamberti. 2005. Secondary spread of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in lake-stream systems. Ecoscience 12:414-421.
  
• Borden, W.C.** and C.A. Stepien. 2006. Discordant population genetic structuring of smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu Lacepede, in Lake Erie based on mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear DNA microsatellites. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 32:242-257.
  
• Borden, W.C.** and C.A. Stepien. Genetic differences between lacustrine and riverine smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in glaciated northeast Ohio. Conservation Genetics. In review. Submitted 4-06.
  
• Bossenbroek, J.M., C.E. Kraft, and J.C. Nekola.  2001.  Prediction of Long-Distance Dispersal Using Gravity Models: Zebra Mussel Invasion of Inland Lakes.  Ecological Applications, 11:1778-1788.
  
• Bossenbroek, J.M., J. McNulty and R. Keller. 2005. Can ecologists heat up the discussion on invasive species risk?. Risk Analysis 25:1595-1597.
• Bossenbroek, J.M., L.E. Johnson, B. Peters, and D.M. Lodge.  2007. Forecasting the expansion of zebra mussels in the United States. Conservation Biology, 21:800-810.
• Bossenbroek, J.M., D. Finnoff, and J. Stohlgren.  In Review.  Advances in ecological and economical analysis of invasive species: dreissenid mussels as a case study. In: Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating Ecology, Economics and Management (eds. Keller, Lodge, Lewis, and Shogren). To be published by Oxford University Press.
• Bratton, J.F., J.K. Böhlke, D.E. Krantz, and C.R. Tobias.  2007.  Flow of groundwater beneath a back-barrier lagoon: Geometry and geochemistry of the subterranean estuary at Chincoteague Bay, Maryland, USA. Marine Chemistry, In Press.
• Bridgeman, T.B., D.W. Schloesser, and A.E. Krause. 2006. Recruitment of Hexagenia mayfly nymphs in western Lake Erie linked to environmental variability. Ecological Applications. 16:601-611.
• Brown, J.E.** and C.A. Stepien.  Ancient divisions, recent expansions: Phylogeography and population genetics of the round goby Apollonia melanostoma across Eurasia.  Molecular Ecology, In Review. 
• Burnett, L., D. Moorhead, I. Hawes and C. Howard-Williams.  2006.  Environmental factors associated with deep chlorophyll maxima in dry valley lakes, South Victoria Land, Antarctica.  Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 38:179-189.
• Chen, J., S.C. Saunders, K.D. Brosofske, and T.R. Crow (Eds.).  2006.  Ecology of Hierarchical Landscapes: From Theory to Application.  Nova Science Publisher, 309 pp.
• Chen, J., K. J. Davis, and T. Meyeres.  Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon and Water Cycling in the Upper Great Lakes Region.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, In Press.
• Czajkowski, K. P. 2002. Using Webcasts for Earth Sciences Classroom Instruction: Lessons Learned, American Geophysical Union's EOS weekly newsletter, 83, Oct. 15, 2002, p. 473.
• Czajkowski, K. P., S. N. Goward, D. Shirey*, and A. Walz*. 2002, Thermal remote sensing of near surface water vapor, Remote Sensing of Environment. 79. 253-265.
• Czajkowski, K. P., S. N. Goward, T. Mulhern, S. J. Goetz, A. Walz*, D. Shirey*, S. Stadler, S. Prince, and R. O. Dubayah. 2004. Recovery of environmental variables from thermal remote sensing, in Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes, Ed. J. Luvall and D. Quattrochi, CRC Press, 11-32.
• DeForest, J.L. **, A. Noormets***, S. McNulty, G. Sun, G. Tenney**, and J. Chen.  2006.  Phenophases alter the soil respiration-temperature relationship in an oak-dominated forest.  International Journal of Biometeorology, 51:135-144.
• Drake, J.M. and J.M. Bossenbroek.  2004.  The potential distribution of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in the U.S.A.  BioScience, 54:931-941.
• Egan, K.J., and J.A. Herriges. 2006. "Multivariate Poisson Regression Models with Individual Panel Data from an On-Site Sample," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. In Press.
• Evans, J.E., J. F. Gottgens, W.M. Gill, and S.D. Mackey. 2000. Sediment yields controlled by intrabasinal storage and sediment conveyance over the interval 1842-1994: Chagrin River, Northeast Ohio, U.S.A. J. Soil Water Conservation 55(3): 264-270
• Evans, J.E., S.D. Mackey, J.F. Gottgens, and W.M. Gill**. 2000. From reservoir to wetland: The rise and fall of an Ohio dam. In: The Earth around us: Maintaining a livable planet. (Ed. J.L. Schneiderman), Freeman Publ., San Francisco, CA: 256-267.
• Evans, J.E., S.D. Mackey, J.F. Gottgens, and W.M. Gill. 2000. Lessons from a dam failure. Ohio J. Science 100(5): 121-131
• Evans, J.E., N.S. Levine, S.J. Roberts, J.F. Gottgens, and D.M. Newman. 2002. Assessment using GIS and sediment routing of the proposed removal of Ballville dam, Sandusky River, Ohio. J. American Water Resources Association 38(6): 1549-1565.
• Evans, J.E., J.F. Gottgens, W.M. Gill, and S.D. Mackey.  2000.  Sediment yields controlled by intrabasinal storage and sediment conveyance over the interval 1842-1994: Chagrin River, Northeast Ohio, U.S.A.  Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 55(3):264-270.
• Evans, J.E. and J.F. Gottgens.  Contaminant stratigraphy of the Ballville Reservoir, Sandusky River, NW Ohio: Implications for dam removal.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, Accepted.
• Faber, J.E.** and C.A. Stepien.  1998.  Tandemly repeated sequences in the mitochondrial DNA control region and phylogeography of the pike-perches Stizostedion.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 10(3):310-323.
• Fisher, T.G. 2004. Vibracoring from lake ice with a lightweight monopod and piston coring apparatus. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 377-382.
• Fisher, T.G., and W.L. Loope. 2004. Lake-level variability within Silver Lake, Michigan: A response to fluctuations in lake levels of Lake Michigan. Michigan Academician 35: 373-385.
• Fisher, T. G., and W.L. Loope 2005. Aeolian sand preserved in Silver Lake: A reliable signal of Holocene high stands of Lake Michigan: The Holocene, 15(7): 1072-1078.
• Fisher, T.G., W.L. Loope, W.C. Pierce, and H.M. Jol. 2006. Big lake records preserved in a little lake's sediment: an example form Silver Lake, Michigan, USA. In: Karrow, P. and Lewis, C.F.M. (Eds.) The Greater and Lesser Great Lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology. In Press.
• Fisher, T.G., W.L. Loope, W.C. Pierce, and H.M. Jol.  2007.  Big lake records preserved in a little lake’s sediment: an example from Silver Lake, Michigan, USA.  Journal of Paleolimnology, 37:365-382.
• Ford, A.M.** and C.A. Stepien. 2004. Genetic variation and spawning population structure in Lake Erie yellow perch, Perca flavescens: A comparison with a Maine population. In Proceedings of Percis III, the 3rd International Symposium on Percid Fishes, T.P. Barry and J.A. Malison, eds. University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, Madison, WI. 131-2.
• Fortney, R.H., M. Benedict**, J.F. Gottgens, T. Walters**, B. Leady** and J. Rentch. 2004. Aquatic macrophyte communities along inundation gradients in two ecologically-distinct regions of the Brazilian Pantanal. Wetlands Ecology and Management 12(6): 575-585 
• Francy, D.S, P. Struffolino**, A.M.G. Brady, and D.F. Dwyer. 2005. A spatial, multivariable approach for identifying proximate sources of Escherichia coli to Maumee Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio. US Geological Survey Report 1386.
• Frank, K.A., K. Muller, A.E. Krause, and W.W. Taylor.  Between networks of global trade and food webs: social networks of humans. In: Globalization: Effects on Fishery Resources, W.W. Taylor, M. Schechter, and L. Wolfson, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.  In Press.
• Gottgens, J.F. 2000. Wetland restoration along the southwestern Lake Erie coast line: Case studies and recommendations. J. Great Lakes' Law, Science & Policy 3(1): 49-65.
• Gottgens, J.F., J.E. Perry, R.H. Fortney, J. Meyer**, M. Benedict** and B.E. Rood. 2001. The Paraguay-Parana Hidrovia: Protecting the Pantanal with lessons from the past. BioScience 51(4): 301-308.
• Gottgens, J.F. and R.H. Fortney. 2004. Neotropical wetlands: Building links among wetland scientists. Wetlands Ecology and Management 12(6): 543-546.
• Gottgens, J.F. 2005. What can we learn from sediment cores? The need for long-term data in environmental law, science and policy. J. Great Lakes Law Science & Policy 5 (2): 101-104
• Gottgens, J.F. and J.E. Evans.  Dam Removals and River Channel Changes in Northern Ohio:  Implications for Lake Erie sediment budgets and water quality.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, Accepted.
• Gruden, C.L., A. Khijniak, and P. Adriaens. 2003. Activity Assessment of Microorganisms Eluted from Sediment Using CTC (5-cyano-2,3-ditolyl tetrazolium chloride): A Quantitative Comparison of Flow Cytometry to Epifluorescent Microscopy Journal of Microbiological Methods. 55 (3): 865-874.
• Gruden, C.L., A. Khijniak, S. Skerlos, and P. Adriaens. 2004. Micro-Flow Cytometry for Environmental and Industrial Applications: Integrating Distributed Microbial Sensing in Sustainable Systems Engineering. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 49(1): 37-49.
• Gruden, C., R. McCulloch, T. Towey, J. Wolfe, and P. Adriaens.  2007.  Hydrogen-Based Activity Enhancement in Sediment Cultures and Intact Sediments.  Environmental Engineering Science, 24(5):696-706.
• Hall, D. L., M. R. Willig, D. L. Moorhead, R. W. Sites, E. B. Fish and T. R. Mollhagen. 2004. Aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity in playa wetlands: the role of landscape and island biogeographic characteristics. Wetlands 24:77-91
• Haponski, A.E.*, T.M. Marth**, and C.A. Stepien.  2007. Genetic divergence across a low-head dam:  A preliminary analysis using logperch and greenside darters. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 33(Special Issue 2):117-126.
• Herborg, L.M., J. Drake, J. Rothlisberger and J. Bossenbroek.  Forecasting suitable habitat for invasive species using ecological niche models and the policy implications of forecasts. In: Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating Ecology, Economics and Management (eds. Keller, Lodge, Lewis, and Shogren). To be published by Oxford University Press.  In Review.
• Herendorf, C.E. and K.A. Krieger.  1989.  Overview of Lake Erie and its estuaries with the Great Lakes ecosystem.  In:  Lake Erie Estuarine Systems: Issues, Resources, Status, and Management, Krieger, K.A. ed..  NOAA Estuary of the Month Seminar Series No. 14, US Dept. of Commerce, pp. 1-35.
• Iverson, L.R., A. Prasad, J.M. Bossenbroek, D. Sydnor, and M.W. Schwartz. Modeling potential movements of a ash threat. Submitted to "Advances in Threat Assessment and Their Application to Forest and Rangeland Management"  Conference General Technical Report, In press. 
• Jerde, C. and J.M. Bossenbroek.  Uncertain Invasions: A biological perspective. In Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating Ecology, Economics and Management (eds. Keller, Lodge, Lewis, and Shogren). To be published by Oxford University Press, In Review.
• Johnson, L.E., J.M. Bossenbroek, and C.E. Kraft. 2006. Pathways and patterns of the post-establishment spread of non-indigenous aquatic species across multiple spatial and temporal scales: the continuing invasion of the zebra mussels in North America. Biological Invasions 8: 475-489.
• Krause, A.E., K.A. Frank, D.M. Mason, R.E. Ulanowicz, and W.W. Taylor.  2003.  Compartments revealed in food-web structure.  Nature, 426:282-285.
• Kvach, Y.*** and C.A. Stepien.  2007.  The invasive round goby Apollonia melanostoma (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) – a new intermediate host of the trematode Neochasmus umbellus (Trematoda: Cryptogonimidae) in Lake Erie, Ohio, USA.  Journal of Applied Ichthyology, In Press.
• Kvach, Y.*** and C.A. Stepien.  Metazoan parasites of invasive round and tubenose gobies (Apollonia melanostoma and Proterorhinus semilunaris) in the Great Lakes.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, Accepted.
• LaCroix, J.**, S.R. Ryu,** D. Zheng,** and J. Chen.   2006.  Simulating fire spread with landscape management scenarios.  Forest Science, 5:522-529.
  Lauber, C.**, L. Glatzer and R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2003. Prevalence of pathogenic E. coli in recreational waters. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2):301-306.
• Lawrence, P., K. Czajkowski, and N. Torbick.**  2004.  Policy implications of remote sensing in understanding urban environments: developing a wetlands inventory for community decision-making in the Maumee area of concern, Ohio.  In: Place, Meaning and the Politics of Cities: Alternative Methodologies for Using Geo-Spatial Technologies to Understanding Urban Environments.  Jensen, R., J. Gatrell, and D. McLean, eds. Springer Verlag Press, London, U.K. pp. 23-36.
• Leady, B.S.** and J.F. Gottgens. 2001. Mercury accumulation in sediment cores and along food chains in two regions of the Brazilian Pantanal. Wetlands Ecology and Management 9(4): 349-361.
• Lee, H.H., and D.A. Mora*. 2005. Survival of glochidia of freshwater mussels, Pyganodon grandis (Mollusca: Unionidae), in vitro in the United States. World Aquaculture 36(4): 56-60.
• Lepper, K, T.G. Fisher, I. Hajdas, T.V. Lowell.  2007.  Ages for the Big Stone moraine and the oldest beaches of glacial Lake Agassiz: Implications for deglaciation chronology.  Geology, 35:667-670.
• Leung, B., J.M. Bossenbroek, and D.M. Lodge. 2006. Boats, pathways, and aquatic biological invasions: Estimating dispersal potential with gravity models. Biological Invasions 8:241-254.
• Lohner, R.N., W.V. Sigler, C.M. Mayer, and C. Balogh. A comparison of the benthic microbial community within and surrounding Dreissena clusters in lakes. Microbial Ecology. Accepted
• Loope, W.L., T.G. Fisher, H.M. Jol, R.J. Goble, J.B. Anderton, W.L. Blewett 2004. A Holocene history of dune-mediated landscape change along the southeastern shore of Lake Superior. Geomorphology 61: 303-322.
• Lyons, W. B., K. A. Welch, J. C. Priscu, J. Laborn-Parry, D. Moorhead and D. M. McKnight. 2001. The McMurdo Dry Valleys long-Term Ecological Research program: New understanding of the biogeochemistry of the dry valley lakes: A review. Polar Geography 25:202-217
• Mayer, C. and D. Wahl. 1997. The relationship between prey selectivity and growth and survival in larval fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 54: 1504-1512.
• Mayer, C., A. VanDeValk, J. Forney, L. Rudstam, and E. Mills. 2000.  Response of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Oneida Lake, New York, to the establishment of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 57: 742 - 754.
• Mayer, C., L. Rudstam, E. Mills, S. Cardiff, C. Bloom. 2001. Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), habitat alteration, and yellow perch (Perca flavecens) foraging: system-wide effects and behaviroural mechanisms. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 58: 2459 - 2467.
• Mayer, C.M., R.A. Keats,* E.L. Mills, and L.G. Rudstam.  2002.  Zebra mussels as ecosystem engineers: scale-dependent effects on benthic invertebrates in a large eutrophic lake.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 21:616-633.
• Mayer, C.M., L. E. Burlakova, P. Eklov, D. Fitzgerald A. Karatayev, S. Ludsin , S. Millard, E. L. Mills, A. P. Ostapenya, L. G. Rudstam, B. Zhu**, and T. V. Zhukova. The benthification of freshwater lakes: Exotics turning ecosystems upside down. BioScience, in re-Review.
• McKenna, K.**, D. L.Moorhead, E. Roberts and J. Layborn-Parry. 2006. Simulating energy flow through a pelagic food web in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Ecological Modelling 192:457-472.
• McKnight, D.M., R. L. Runkel, C. M. Tate, J. H. Duff, and D. L. Moorhead. 2004. Inorganic N and P dynamics of Antarctic glacial meltwater streams as controlled by hyporheic exchange and benthic autotrophic communities. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 23:171-188.
• Moorhead, D. L., J. E. Barrett, R. A. Virginia, D. W. Wall and D. Porazinska. 2003. Organic matter and soil biota of upland wetlands in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Polar Biology. 26:567-576.
• Moorhead, D., J. Schmeling and I. Hawes. 2005. Contributions of benthic microbial mats to net primary production in Lake Hoare, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 17:33-45.
• Moorhead, D., T. Bridgeman and T. Bollin. Changes in Water Quality of Maumee Bay 1974-1999. J. Great Lakes Research. In Review.
• Moorhead, D. L.  2007.  Mesoscale dynamics of ephemeral wetlands in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: Implications to production and distribution of organic matter.  Ecosystems, 10:87-95.
• Moorhead, D., T. Bridgeman and J. Morris**. 2007. Changes in Water Quality of Maumee Bay 1928-2003. In M. Munawar and R. Heath (eds) Checking The Pulse of Lake Erie. AEHMS-Ecovision World Monograph Series.
• Mortimer, C.H. 1987. Fifty years of physical investigations and related limnological studies on Lake Erie, 1928-1977.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, 13:407-435.
• Munro-Stasiuk, M.J., Fisher, T.G., and Nitzsche, C.R. 2005. The origin of the western Lake Erie grooves, Ohio: implications for reconstructing the subglacial hydrology of the Great Lakes sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, In: Fisher, T.G. and Russell, A.J. (Eds.) Reassessing the role of meltwater processes during Quaternary glaciations, Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 2392-2409.
• Neilson, M.E.** and C.A. Stepien.  2007.  Genetic identity, systematics, and biogeography of invasive neogobiins:  Patterns in the Ponto-Caspian, the Great Lakes, and beyond.  Biology of Inland Waters MAIK-Nauka, Russia.  In Press.
• Nelson, K.M.**, J. F. Gottgens and E. J. Tramer.  Environmental correlates of tree species distribution in a Great Lakes tributary floodplain forest. Wetlands (in revision).
• Noormets, A., A, Desai, D. M. Ricciuto, B. Cook, K. Davis, P. Bolstad, H. Schmid, P. Curtis, E.V. Carey, H.B. Su, and J. Chen.  Moisture sensitivity of ecosystem respiration: comparison of 14 forest ecosystems in northern Wisconsin, USA.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, In Press.
• Ohayon, J.L.*, and C.A. Stepien.  2007.  Genetic and biogeographic relationships of the racer goby Neogobius gymnotrachelus (Gobiidae: Teleostei) from introduced and native Eurasian locations. Journal of Fish Biology 71 (Supplement C), 360-370. (Credits current NSF project # DEB-0456972, undergraduate NSF REU student)
• Paul, M.J., and J.L. Meyer.  2001.  Streams in the urban landscape.  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 32:333-365.
• Philpott, S.M.  2005.  Trait-mediated effects of parasitic phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) on ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) competition and resource access in coffee agroecosystems.  Environmental Entomology, 34:1089-1094.
• Qin, P.**, C.M. Mayer, K.L. Schulz, X. Ji, and M. Ritchie.  2007.  Ecological stoichiometry in benthic food webs: light and nutrients effects on periphyton food quantity and quality in lakes.  Limnology and Oceanography, 52:1728-1734.
• Report on the Genetic Spawning Site Structure of Lake Erie Walleye, Yellow Perch, and Smallmouth Bass (2006).
• Roberts, S.J., J.F. Gottgens, A. L. Spongberg, J.E. Evans and N.S. Levine. 2007. An Integrated approach to assessing potential dam removals: An example from the Ottawa River, NW Ohio. Environmental Management, 39(1):113-124.
• Schloesser, D.W., R.G. Stickel, and T.B. Bridgeman.  2005.  Potential oxygen demand of sediments from Lake Erie.  Journal of Great Lakes Research, 31 (Suppl. 2):272-283.
• Schmidt, S.K., E.K. Costello, D.R. Nemergut, C.C. Cleveland, S.C. Reed, M.N. Weintraub, A.F. Meyer, and A.M. Martin.  2007.  Biogeochemical consequences of microbial turnover and seasonal succession in soil.  Ecology, 88(6):1379-1385.
  
• Sendzimir, J., J.F. Gottgens and J. Pokorny. Assessing multiple scales of climate change impacts on northern-hemisphere freshwater wetlands. Climate Change, in review.
• Sigler, V. and L. Pasutti.*  2006.  Evaluation of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis to differentiate E. coli communities in secondary environments.  Environmental Microbiology, 8:1703-1711.
• Spijkerman E., D. Barua***, A. Gerloff-Elias, J. Kern, U. Gaedke, S.A. Heckathorn.  2007.  Stress responses and metal tolerance of Chlamydomonas acidophila in metal-enriched lake water and artificial medium. Extremophiles, 11(4): 551-562.
• Spongberg, A.L., J. Gottgens and B. Muller**. 2004. Pesticide Accumulation Rates in a Northwestern Ohio Marsh. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 152:387-404.
• Stepien, C.A. and J.E. Faber.**  1998.  Population genetic structure, phylogeography, and spawning philopatry in walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) from mtDNA control region sequences.  Molecular Ecology, 7(12):1757-1769.
• Stepien, C.A., A.K. Dillon**, and A.K. Patterson.*  2000.  Population genetics, phylogeography, and systematics of the thornyhead rockfishes (Sebastolobus) along the deep continental slopes of the North Pacific Ocean.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences,57:1701-1717.
• Stepien, C.A., B. Morton, K. Dabrowska*, R. Guarnera, T. Radja, and B. Radja**.  2001a.  Genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships of the troglodytic "living fossil” Congeria kusceri (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae).  Molecular Ecology, 10:1873-1879.
• Stepien, C.A., R.H. Rosenblatt, and B.A. Bargmeyer.*  2001b.  Phylogeography of the spotted sandbass, Paralabrax maculatofasciatus:  Divergence of Gulf of California and Pacific coast populations.  Evolution, 55(9):64-74.
• Stepien, C.A., C.D. Taylor*, and K.A. Dabrowska*.  2002.  Genetic variability and phylogeographic patterns of a nonindigenous species invasion:  A comparison of exotic versus native zebra and quagga mussel populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 15(2):314-328.
• Stepien, C.A., C.D. Taylor*, I.A. Grigorovich, S.V. Shirman*, R. Wei, A.V. Korniushin and K.A. Dabrowska.*  2003.  DNA and systematic analysis of invasive and native dreissenid mussels: Is Dreissena bugensis really D. rostriformis?  Aquatic Invaders, 14(2):1-10.
  
• Stepien, C.A., C.D. Taylor*, and D.W. Einhouse. 2004. An analysis of genetic risk to a native spawning stock of walleye Sander vitreus (Stizostedion vitreum) due to stocking in Cattaraugus Creek. In Proceedings of Percis III, the 3rd International Symposium on Percid Fishes, T.P.Barry and J.A.
• Stepien, C.A., J.E. Brown**, M.E. Neilson**, and M.A. Tumeo. 2005. Genetic diversity of invasive species in the Great Lakes versus their Eurasian source populations: Insights for Risk Analysis. Risk Analysis, 25(4):1043-1060.
• Stepien, C.A. and M.A. Tumeo. 2006. Invasion genetics of Ponto-Caspian gobies in the Great Lakes: A "cryptic" species, absence of founder effects, and comparative risk analysis. Biological Invasions, 8(1):61-78.
• Stepien, C.A., D.M. Murphy, and R.M. Strange. 2007. Broad to fine-scale genetic patterning in smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu across the Laurentian Great Lakes and beyond: An interplay of behavior and geography. Molecular Ecology, 16:1605-1624.
• Stepien, C.A., J.E. Brown**, and M.E. Neilson**. 2007. Genetic diversity and divergence patterns in exotic species introduced from the Ponto-Caspian to the North American Great Lakes. Biology of Inland Waters MAIK-Nauka, Russia. In Press.
• Stepien, C.A., R.N. Lohner, and D.M. Murphy.  Genetic patterns among Walleye (Sander vitreus) populations across the Laurentian Great Lakes:  Signatures of historic stocks.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.  In Review.
• Strange, R.M.*** and C.A. Stepien.  2007a.  DNA analysis distinguishes North American and Eurasian yellow perch (Perca flavescens and P. fluviatilis) in unknown fried fillet samples.  U.S. Fishery Bulletin, 105(2):292-295.
• Strange, R.M.*** and C.A. Stepien. 2007b. Genetic divergence and continuity among river and reef spawning groups of walleye (Sander vitreus) in Lake Erie.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64:437-448.
• Torbick, N.**, P. Lawrence, and K.P. Czajkowski.  2006.  Application and Assessment of an Expert System for Wetlands identification in Northwest Ohio, USA.  Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Restoration, 2:26-37.
• Tran, S. L.** and D. L. Moorhead. 2006. A note on effective basking trap size. Herpetological Review, 37:307.
  
• Tran, S. L.**, D. L. Moorhead,and K. C. Mckenna**. Habitat selection by native turtles in a Lake Erie Wetland, USA. American Midland Naturalist. In Review.
• Tran, S. L.**, D. L. Moorhead and K. C. Mckenna**. Understanding urban environments: developing a wetlands inventory for community decision-making in the Maumee area of concern, Ohio. In Jensen, R., Gatrell, J., and McLean, D. eds. Place, Meaning and the Politics of Cities: Alternative Methodologies for Using Geo-Spatial Technologies to Understanding Urban Environments. Springer Verlag Press. In Press.
• Vincent, R. K., X. Qin, R. M. McKay, J. Miner, K. Czajkowski, J. Savino, and T. Bridgeman. 2003. Phycocyanin Detection from Landsat TM data for mapping Cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie. Remote Sensing of Environment. 89: 381-392.
• Wang, X., B. Song, J. Chen, T.R. Crow, and J. LaCroix**.  2006.  Challenges in visualizing forests and landscapes.  Journal of Forestry, 104(6):316-319.
• Witter, J.D.**, A.L. Spongberg, and K.P. Czajkowski.  2007.  Diurnal Soil Temperature within the GLOBE Program Dataset.  Journal of Geography, 106:13-19.
• Yee, S. H., M. R. Willig and D. L. Moorhead. 2005. Tadpole shrimp structure macroinvertebrate communities in playa lake microcosms. Hydrobiologia 541:139-148.
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