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Overview

Jeremy M. Testa is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences in the United States. Their research spans extensively across Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work primarily addresses topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, marine and coastal plant biology, and marine and fisheries research.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include Ming Li, Wei-Jun Cai, Chunqi Shen, C. L. S. Hodgkins, and Jianzhong Su.

Jeremy M. Testa has contributed publications to several leading scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets comprise Limnology and Oceanography, Estuaries and Coasts, Water Research, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Their recent research publications include:

  • Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Acidification in Large Estuaries (2020) published in Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Chesapeake Bay acidification buffered by spatially decoupled carbonate mineral cycling (2020) published in Nature Geoscience
  • Discerning effects of warming, sea level rise and nutrient management on long-term hypoxia trends in Chesapeake Bay (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton in Chesapeake Bay: Development of an empirical approach for water-quality management (2020) published in Water Research
  • Stressing over the Complexities of Multiple Stressors in Marine and Estuarine Systems (2022) published in Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research

Best Publications

  • Temporal responses of coastal hypoxia to nutrient loading and physical controls

    W. M. Kemp;J. M. Testa;Daniel Conley;D. Gilbert

  • Biogeochemical Controls on Coastal Hypoxia

    Katja Fennel;Jeremy M Testa

  • Long-term nutrient reductions lead to the unprecedented recovery of a temperate coastal region

    Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Robert J. Orth;William C. Dennison;David J. Wilcox

  • The metabolism of aquatic ecosystems: history, applications, and future challenges

    Peter A. Staehr;Jeremy M. Testa;W. Michael Kemp;Jon J. Cole

  • Redox reactions and weak buffering capacity lead to acidification in the Chesapeake Bay

    Wei-Jun Cai;Wei-Jen Huang;Wei-Jen Huang;George W. Luther;Denis Pierrot

  • Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Acidification in Large Estuaries.

    Wei-Jun Cai;Richard A Feely;Jeremy M Testa;Ming Li

  • Quantifying the effects of nutrient loading on dissolved O2 cycling and hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay using a coupled hydrodynamic–biogeochemical model

    Jeremy M. Testa;Yun Li;Yun Li;Younjoo J. Lee;Younjoo J. Lee;Ming Li

  • What drives interannual variability of hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay: Climate forcing versus nutrient loading?

    Ming Li;Younjoo J. Lee;Jeremy M. Testa;Yun Li

  • Sediment flux modeling: Simulating nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica cycles

    Jeremy M. Testa;Damian C. Brady;Dominic M. Di Toro;Walter R. Boynton

  • Top-down control of phytoplankton by oysters in Chesapeake Bay, USA: Comment on Pomeroy et al. (2006)

    Roger I. E. Newell;W. Michael Kemp;James D. Hagy;Carl F. Cerco

  • Progress and Challenges in Coupled Hydrodynamic-Ecological Estuarine Modeling

    Neil K. Ganju;Mark J. Brush;Brenda Rashleigh;Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta

  • Submersed Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay: Sentinel Species in a Changing World

    Robert J. Orth;William C. Dennison;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Cassie Gurbisz

  • Oxygen and Nutrient Exchanges at the Sediment-Water Interface: a Global Synthesis and Critique of Estuarine and Coastal Data

    W. R. Boynton;M. A. C. Ceballos;E. M. Bailey;C. L. S. Hodgkins

  • Challenges associated with modeling low-oxygen waters in Chesapeake Bay: a multiple model comparison

    Isaac D. Irby;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Carl T. Friedrichs;Aaron J. Bever

  • Hypoxia-induced shifts in nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in Chesapeake Bay

    Jeremy Mark Testa;W. Michael Kemp

  • Chesapeake Bay acidification buffered by spatially decoupled carbonate mineral cycling

    Jianzhong Su;Jianzhong Su;Wei-Jun Cai;Jean Brodeur;Baoshan Chen

  • Long-Term Changes in Water Quality and Productivity in the Patuxent River Estuary: 1985 to 2003

    Jeremy M. Testa;W. Michael Kemp;Walter R. Boynton;James D. Hagy

  • Sediment flux modeling: Calibration and application for coastal systems

    Damian C. Brady;Jeremy M. Testa;Dominic M. Di Toro;Walter R. Boynton

  • Dissolved iron cycling in the subterranean estuary of a coastal bay: Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts.

    Jeremy M. Testa;Matthew A. Charette;Edward R. Sholkovitz;Matt C. Allen

  • Discerning effects of warming, sea level rise and nutrient management on long-term hypoxia trends in Chesapeake Bay.

    Wenfei Ni;Ming Li;Jeremy M. Testa

  • Nutrient- and Climate-Induced Shifts in the Phenology of Linked Biogeochemical Cycles in a Temperate Estuary

    Jeremy M. Testa;Rebecca R. Murphy;Damian C. Brady;William M. Kemp

Frequent Co-Authors

Ming Li
Ming Li University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Wei-Jun Cai
Wei-Jun Cai University of Delaware
Walter R. Boynton
Walter R. Boynton University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Jeffrey C. Cornwell
Jeffrey C. Cornwell University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Neil K. Ganju
Neil K. Ganju United States Geological Survey
Dominic M. Di Toro
Dominic M. Di Toro University of Delaware
Jonathan S. Lefcheck
Jonathan S. Lefcheck Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
William C. Dennison
William C. Dennison University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs
Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Donald E. Weller
Donald E. Weller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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