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Cathleen Wigand is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and coastal and marine dynamics.

The main fields of study for Cathleen Wigand include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields explored by Wigand cover:

  • Ecology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Plant Science
  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science

The scientist's principal topics of work are:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Cassava research and cyanide
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Cathleen Wigand has published multiple papers, including recent works such as:

  • Greenhouse Gas Fluxes of Mangrove Soils and Adjacent Coastal Waters in an Urban, Subtropical Estuary (2020) in Wetlands
  • Unexpected Nitrogen Sources in a Tropical Urban Estuary (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Laying it on thick: Ecosystem effects of sediment placement on a microtidal Rhode Island salt marsh (2022) in Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Recent Carbon Storage and Burial Exceed Historic Rates in the San Juan Bay Estuary Peri-Urban Mangrove Forests (Puerto Rico, United States) (2021) in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Implementing adaptive management into a climate change adaptation strategy for a drowning New England salt marsh (2020) in Journal of Environmental Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cathleen Wigand include:

  • Michael Bradley
  • Kate Mulvaney
  • Erin Burman
  • Nathaniel Merrill
  • Elizabeth Watson

Wigand's publications appear often in certain venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Assessment of a δ15N Isotopic Method to Indicate Anthropogenic Eutrophication in Aquatic Ecosystems

    Marci L. Cole;Ivan Valiela;Kevin D. Kroeger;Gabrielle L. Tomasky

  • Contributions of Organic and Inorganic Matter to Sediment Volume and Accretion in Tidal Wetlands at Steady State

    James T. Morris;Donald C. Barber;John C. Callaway;Randy Chambers

  • Vascular Plants as Engineers of Oxygen in Aquatic Systems

    Nina Caraco;Jonathan Cole;Stuart Findlay;Cathleen Wigand

  • Effects of different submersed macrophytes on sediment biogeochemistry

    Cathleen Wigand;J.Court Stevenson;Jeffry C. Cornwell

  • Wetland Loss Patterns and Inundation-Productivity Relationships Prognosticate Widespread Salt Marsh Loss for Southern New England

    Elizabeth Burke Watson;Elizabeth Burke Watson;Cathleen Wigand;Earl W. Davey;Holly M. Andrews;Holly M. Andrews

  • Sediment chemistry associated with native and non-native emergent macrophytes of a Hudson River marsh ecosystem

    Pamela Templer;Stuart Findlay;Cathleen Wigand

  • Understanding Effects of Multiple Stressors: Ideas and Challenges

    Denise L. Breitburg;James W. Baxter;Colleen A. Hatfield;Robert W. Howarth

  • Below the disappearing marshes of an urban estuary: historic nitrogen trends and soil structure

    Cathleen Wigand;Charles T. Roman;Earl Davey;Mark Stolt

  • Effects of an introduced aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata, on benthic communities in the Upper Chesapeake Bay.

    Martin H. Posey;Cathleen Wigand;J.Court Stevenson

  • Relationships of nitrogen loadings, residential development, and physical characteristics with plant structure in New England salt marshes

    Cathleen Wigand;Richard A. McKinney;Michael A. Charpentier;Marnita M. Chintala

  • A Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Management of Coastal Marsh Systems

    Cathleen Wigand;Thomas Ardito;Caitlin Chaffee;Wenley Ferguson

  • RIBBED MUSSEL NITROGEN ISOTOPE SIGNATURES REFLECT NITROGEN SOURCES IN COASTAL SALT MARSHES

    R. A. McKinney;W. G. Nelson;M. A. Charpentier;C. Wigand

  • Soil respiration rates in coastal marshes subject to increasing watershed nitrogen loads in southern New England, USA.

    Cathleen Wigand;Patricia Brennan;Mark Stolt;Matt Holt

  • Effect of ”Brown Tide“ shading on eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) distributions

    William C. Dennison;Gregory J. Marshall;Cathleen Wigand

  • Nutrient enrichment and precipitation changes do not enhance resiliency of salt marshes to sea level rise in the Northeastern U.S.

    E. B. Watson;A. J. Oczkowski;C. Wigand;A. R. Hanson

  • Formation of root plaques and their influence on tissue phosphorus content in Lobelia dortmanna

    Kasper Kjellberg Christensen;Cathleen Wigand

  • Endomycorrhizae of isoetids along a biogeochemical gradient

    C. Wigand;F. O. Andersen;K. K. Christensen;M. Holmer

  • Effect of nutrient loading on biogeochemical and microbial processes in a New England salt marsh

    Jane M. Caffrey;Michael C. Murrell;Cathleen Wigand;Richard McKinney

  • A rapid, non-destructive method for estimating aboveground biomass of salt marsh grasses

    Glen B. Thursby;Marnita M. Chintala;Denise Stetson;Cathleen Wigand

  • Interferences between root plaque formation and phosphorus availability for isoetids in sediments of oligotrophic lakes

    Kasper Kjellberg Christensen;Henning Skovgaard Jensen;Frede Østergaard Andersen;Marianne Holmer

  • Denitrification enzyme activity of fringe salt marshes in New England (USA).

    Cathleen Wigand;Richard A. McKinney;Marnita M. Chintala;Michael A. Charpentier

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. McKinney
Richard A. McKinney Environmental Protection Agency
James T. Morris
James T. Morris University of South Carolina
Stuart E. G. Findlay
Stuart E. G. Findlay Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Marianne Holmer
Marianne Holmer University of Southern Denmark
Daniel E. Campbell
Daniel E. Campbell Environmental Protection Agency
Ivan Valiela
Ivan Valiela Marine Biological Laboratory
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Scott W. Nixon
Scott W. Nixon University of Rhode Island
Donald R. Cahoon
Donald R. Cahoon United States Geological Survey
Charles S. Hopkinson
Charles S. Hopkinson University of Georgia

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