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Brian L. Howes is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable engagement in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Pollution.

The scientist's work extensively covers several interconnected topics, including Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Aeolian Processes and Effects, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal.

Their recent scholarly contributions include papers published in peer-reviewed journals with focuses in environmental monitoring, aquaculture, and coastal ecosystem dynamics. Selected recent publications include:

  • Salt marsh vegetation change during a half-century of experimental nutrient addition and climate-driven controls in Great Sippewissett Marsh (2023) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Modelling the Spatial Distribution of Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Biodeposits Settling from Suspended Aquaculture (2022) in Estuaries and Coasts
  • Quantifying the Effects of Floating Oyster Aquaculture on Nitrogen Cycling in a Temperate Coastal Embayment (2022) in Estuaries and Coasts
  • Water quality measurements in Buzzards Bay by the Buzzards Bay Coalition Baywatchers Program from 1992 to 2018 (2021) in Scientific Data
  • Water Quality Monitoring Using Landsat 8 OLI in Pleasant Bay, Massachusetts, USA (2025) in Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborators include Micheline S. Labrie, Miles A. Sundermeyer, Iván Valiela, Kelsey Chenoweth, and Javier Lloret. These coauthors have worked with Howes on multiple research projects, contributing to their outputs across various coastal and marine environmental studies.

The scientist's publications have appeared repeatedly in several established venues. The most frequent ones are:

  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Transport of groundwater-borne nutrients from watersheds and their effects on coastal waters

    Ivan Valiela;Joseph Costa;Kenneth Foreman;John M. Teal

  • Oxidation‐reduction potentials in a salt marsh: Spatial patterns and interactions with primary production1

    Brian L. Howes;Robert W. Howarth;John M. Teal;Ivan Valiela

  • Factors controlling the growth form of Spartina alterniflora: feedbacks between above-ground production, sediment oxidation, nitrogen and salinity

    B. L. Howes;J. W. H. Dacey;D. D. Goehringer

  • Denitrification in nitrate-contaminated groundwater: Occurrence in steep vertical geochemical gradients

    Richard L Smith;Brian L Howes;John H Duff

  • Carbon flow through oxygen and sulfate reduction pathways in salt marsh sediments1

    Brian L. Howes;John W. H. Dacey;Gary M. King

  • Henry's law constants for dimethylsulfide in freshwater and seawater

    John W. H. Dacey;Stuart G. Wakeham;Brian L. Howes

  • Coliform Contamination of a Coastal Embayment: Sources and Transport Pathways

    Peter K. Weiskel;Brian L. Howes;George R. Heufelder

  • Nitrogen transport and transformations in a shallow aquifer receiving wastewater discharge: A mass balance approach

    Leslie A. DeSimone;Brian L. Howes

  • Salt marshes and eutrophication: An unsustainable outcome

    R. Eugene Turner;Brian L. Howes;John M. Teal;Charles S. Milan

  • Water Uptake by Roots Controls Water Table Movement and Sediment Oxidation in Short Spartina Marsh

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  • Effects of sampling technique on measurements of porewater constituents in salt marsh sediments1

    Brian L. Howes;John W. H. Dacey;Stuart G. Wakeham

  • Annual carbon mineralization and belowground production of Spartina alterniflora in a New England salt marsh

    Brian L. Howes;John W. H. Dacey;John M. Teal

  • Differential transport of sewage-derived nitrogen and phosphorus through a coastal watershed

    Peter K. Weiskel;Brian L. Howes

  • Long-term 15N-nitrogen retention in the vegetated sediments of a New England salt marsh

    David S. White;Brian L. Howes

  • PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS IN A STABLY STRATIFIED ANTARCTIC LAKE DURING WINTER DARKNESS

    Diane M. McKnight;B. L. Howes;C. D. Taylor;D. D. Goehringer

  • Sterols in decomposing Spartina alterniflora and the use of ergosterol in estimating the contribution of fungi to detrital nitrogen1

    Cindy Lee;Robert W. Howarth;Brian L. Howes

  • Porewater drainage and dissolved organic carbon and nutrient losses through the intertidal creek-banks of a New England salt marsh

    BL Howes;DD Goehringer

  • Experimental investigation of taxon-specific response of alkaline phosphatase activity in natural freshwater phytoplankton

    Karin Rengefors;K C Ruttenberg;C L Haupert;C Taylor

  • Biogeochemistry of dimethylsulfide in a seasonally stratified coastal salt pond

    S.G. Wakeham;B.L. Howes;J.W.H. Dacey;R.P. Schwarzenbach

  • Denitrification and Nitrogen Transport in a Coastal Aquifer Receiving Wastewater Discharge

    Leslie A. DeSimone;Brian L. Howes

  • Control of denitrification in a septage-treating artificial wetland: the dual role of particulate organic carbon.

    M.Robert Hamersley;Brian L Howes

  • A Comparison of Methods to Determine K in a Shallow Coastal Aquifer

    Newton P. Millham;Brian L. Howes

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Teal
John M. Teal Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Stuart G. Wakeham
Stuart G. Wakeham Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Ivan Valiela
Ivan Valiela Marine Biological Laboratory
Anne E. Giblin
Anne E. Giblin Marine Biological Laboratory
Karin Rengefors
Karin Rengefors Lund University
Mark E. Hahn
Mark E. Hahn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Diane M. McKnight
Diane M. McKnight University of Colorado Boulder
Charles S. Hopkinson
Charles S. Hopkinson University of Georgia
Donald M. Anderson
Donald M. Anderson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Josef Zeyer
Josef Zeyer ETH Zurich

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