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Overview

Mark J. McCarthy is affiliated with Wright State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science. Their work has contributed to multiple subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution, and Health, Toxicology, and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research interests focus on topics such as Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Mark J. McCarthy has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scientific venues. Notable journals where the scientist has published include Limnology and Oceanography, Nature Communications, Journal of Great Lakes Research, The Science of The Total Environment, and The Innovation.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Mark J. McCarthy include:

  • Contributions of external nutrient loading and internal cycling to cyanobacterial bloom dynamics in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for nutrient management, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Consistent stoichiometric long-term relationships between nutrients and chlorophyll-a across shallow lakes, 2024, Nature Communications
  • The role of internal nitrogen loading in supporting non-N-fixing harmful cyanobacterial blooms in the water column of a large eutrophic lake, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Evaluating sediments as an ecosystem service in western Lake Erie via quantification of nutrient cycling pathways and selected gene abundances, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Hurricane Disturbance Stimulated Nitrification and Altered Ammonia Oxidizer Community Structure in Lake Okeechobee and St. Lucie Estuary (Florida), 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in the scientist's research include Silvia E. Newell, Tiina Nõges, Justin A. Myers, Peeter Nõges, and Lindsay D. Starr. These coauthors have contributed to multiple publications alongside Mark J. McCarthy.

Best Publications

  • Controlling harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a hyper-eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China): The need for a dual nutrient (N & P) management strategy

    Hans W. Paerl;Hai Xu;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Guangwei Zhu

  • It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems

    Hans W. Paerl;J. Thad Scott;Mark J. McCarthy;Silvia E. Newell

  • Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients.

    Hans W. Paerl;Wayne S. Gardner;Karl E. Havens;Alan R. Joyner

  • Nitrogen fixation and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) support nitrogen dynamics in Texas estuaries

    Wayne S. Gardner;Mark J. McCarthy;Soonmo An;Dmitri Sobolev

  • Nitrogen fixation may not balance the nitrogen pool in lakes over timescales relevant to eutrophication management

    J. Thad Scott;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy

  • Denitrification, dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium, and nitrogen fixation along a nitrate concentration gradient in a created freshwater wetland

    J. Thad Scott;J. Thad Scott;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Wayne S. Gardner;Robert D. Doyle

  • Algal blooms: Noteworthy nitrogen

    Hans W. Paerl;Wayne S. Gardner;Mark J. McCarthy;Benjamin L. Peierls

  • Nitrogen dynamics and microbial food web structure during a summer cyanobacterial bloom in a subtropical, shallow, well-mixed, eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China)

    Mark J. McCarthy;Peter J. Lavrentyev;Longyuan Yang;Lu Zhang

  • Nitrogen dynamics at the sediment–water interface in shallow, sub-tropical Florida Bay: why denitrification efficiency may decrease with increased eutrophication

    Wayne S. Gardner;Mark J. McCarthy

  • Mitigating eutrophication and toxic cyanobacterial blooms in large lakes: The evolution of a dual nutrient (N and P) reduction paradigm

    Hans W. Paerl;Hans W. Paerl;Karl E. Havens;Hai Xu;Guangwei Zhu

  • Contributions of External Nutrient Loading and Internal Cycling to Cyanobacterial Bloom Dynamics in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for Nutrient Management

    Hai Xu;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Hans W. Paerl;Hans W. Paerl;Justin D. Brookes

  • Modeling denitrification in aquatic sediments

    Katja Fennel;Damian Brady;Dominic DiToro;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • Nutrient ratios and phytoplankton community structure in the large, shallow, eutrophic, subtropical Lakes Okeechobee (Florida, USA) and Taihu (China)

    Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;R. Thomas James;Yuwei Chen;Therese L. East

  • Controlling Cyanobacterial Blooms in Hypertrophic Lake Taihu, China: Will Nitrogen Reductions Cause Replacement of non-N2 Fixing by N2 Fixing Taxa?

    Hans W. Paerl;Hai Xu;Nathan S. Hall;Guangwei Zhu

  • Respiration and denitrification in permeable continental shelf deposits on the South Atlantic Bight: Rates of carbon and nitrogen cycling from sediment column experiments

    Alexandra M.F. Rao;Mark J. McCarthy;Wayne S. Gardner;Richard A. Jahnke

  • Reduced forms of nitrogen are a driver of non-nitrogen-fixing harmful cyanobacterial blooms and toxicity in Lake Erie.

    Silvia E. Newell;Timothy W. Davis;Thomas H. Johengen;Duane Gossiaux

  • Assessing Nitrogen Dynamics Throughout the Estuarine Landscape

    Ashley R. Smyth;Suzanne P. Thompson;Kaylyn N. Siporin;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Nitrogen cycling and metabolism in the thalweg of a prairie river

    W. K. Dodds;J. J. Beaulieu;J. J. Beaulieu;Jessica J Eichmiller;J. R. Fischer

  • Nitrification and ammonium dynamics in Taihu Lake, China: seasonal competition for ammonium between nitrifiers and cyanobacteria

    Justyna J. Hampel;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Wayne S. Gardner;Lu Zhang

  • Oxygen consumption in the water column and sediments of the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone

    Mark J. McCarthy;Stephen A. Carini;Zhanfei Liu;Nathaniel E. Ostrom

  • Comparing Denitrification Estimates for a Texas Estuary by Using Acetylene Inhibition and Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry

    Melody J. Bernot;Walter K. Dodds;Wayne S. Gardner;Mark J. McCarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne S. Gardner
Wayne S. Gardner The University of Texas at Austin
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Boqiang Qin
Boqiang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven W. Wilhelm
Steven W. Wilhelm University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Guangwei Zhu
Guangwei Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hai Xu
Hai Xu Tianjin University
Zhanfei Liu
Zhanfei Liu The University of Texas at Austin
Moritz F. Lehmann
Moritz F. Lehmann University of Basel
Karl E. Havens
Karl E. Havens University of Florida
Thomas H. Johengen
Thomas H. Johengen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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