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Richard L. Whitman is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. The scientist's professional work is primarily rooted within this federal agency, which focuses on natural sciences and earth studies.

There is no publicly available record of recent papers authored by Richard L. Whitman, nor any documented frequent co-authors or publication venues associated with their research output.

Similarly, no book publications or details regarding publishers linked to Whitman's work have been recorded.

Information about the main fields of study, subfields, or specific research topics connected to Richard L. Whitman is not present in the accessible data, limiting insight into the detailed areas of specialization or thematic focus within their scientific endeavors.

There are no recorded awards or honors attributed to Whitman, and the individual is currently living according to available information.

Best Publications

  • Occurrence of Escherichia coli and enterococci in Cladophora (Chlorophyta) in nearshore water and beach sand of Lake Michigan

    Richard L. Whitman;Dawn A. Shively;Heather Pawlik;Meredith B. Nevers

  • Foreshore Sand as a Source of Escherichia coli in Nearshore Water of a Lake Michigan Beach

    Richard L. Whitman;Meredith B. Nevers

  • Solar and Temporal Effects on Escherichia coli Concentration at a Lake Michigan Swimming Beach

    Richard L. Whitman;Meredith B. Nevers;Ginger C. Korinek;Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli

  • Growth and survival of Escherichia coli and enterococci populations in the macro-alga Cladophora (Chlorophyta)

    Muruleedhara N Byappanahalli;Dawn A Shively;Meredith B Nevers;Michael J Sadowsky

  • Population structure, persistence, and seasonality of autochthonous Escherichia coli in temperate, coastal forest soil from a Great Lakes watershed

    Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli;Richard L. Whitman;Dawn A. Shively;Michael J. Sadowsky

  • Ubiquity and Persistence of Escherichia coli in a Midwestern Coastal Stream

    Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli;Melanie Fowler;Dawn Shively;Richard Whitman

  • Evaluation of a rapid, quantitative real-time PCR method for enumeration of pathogenic Candida cells in water.

    Nichole E. Brinkman;Richard A. Haugland;Larry J. Wymer;Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli

  • Microbes in beach sands: integrating environment, ecology and public health

    Richard L. Whitman;Valerie J. Harwood;Thomas A. Edge;Meredith B. Nevers

  • Abundance and characteristics of the recreational water quality indicator bacteria Escherichia coli and enterococci in gull faeces

    L.R. Fogarty;S.K. Haack;M.J. Wolcott;R.L. Whitman

  • Cladophora (Chlorophyta) spp. Harbor Human Bacterial Pathogens in Nearshore Water of Lake Michigan

    Satoshi Ishii;Tao Yan;Dawn A. Shively;Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli

  • Nowcast modeling of Escherichia coli concentrations at multiple urban beaches of southern Lake Michigan

    Meredith B. Nevers;Richard L. Whitman

  • Modeling the transport and inactivation of E. coli and enterococci in the near-shore region of Lake Michigan.

    Lubo Liu;Mantha S. Phanikumar;Stephanie L. Molloy;Richard L. Whitman

  • Performance of human fecal anaerobe-associated PCR-based assays in a multi-laboratory method evaluation study

    Blythe A. Layton;Yiping Cao;Darcy L. Ebentier;Kaitlyn Hanley

  • Faecal indicator bacteria enumeration in beach sand: a comparison study of extraction methods in medium to coarse sands

    A.B. Boehm;J. Griffith;C. McGee;T.A. Edge

  • Economic and health risk trade-offs of swim closures at a Lake Michigan beach.

    Sharyl J. M. Rabinovici;Richard L. Bernknopf;Anne M. Wein;Don L. Coursey

  • Examination of the Watershed-Wide Distribution of Escherichia coli along Southern Lake Michigan: an Integrated Approach

    Richard L. Whitman;Meredith B. Nevers;Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli

  • Beach sand and the potential for infectious disease transmission: observations and recommendations

    Helena M. Solo-Gabriele;Valerie J. Harwood;David Kay;Roger S. Fujioka

  • Escherichia coli sampling reliability at a frequently closed Chicago Beach: monitoring and management implications.

    Richard L. Whitman;Meredith B. Nevers

  • Seasonal stability of Cladophora-associated Salmonella in Lake Michigan watersheds.

    Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli;Richard Sawdey;Satoshi Ishii;Dawn A. Shively

  • TiO2 as a photocatalyst for control of the aquatic invasive alga, Cladophora, under natural and artificial light

    Julie R. Peller;Richard L. Whitman;Scott Griffith;Patricia Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Sadowsky
Michael J. Sadowsky University of Minnesota
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University
Thomas A. Edge
Thomas A. Edge Environment and Climate Change Canada
Helena M. Solo-Gabriele
Helena M. Solo-Gabriele University of Miami
Joan B. Rose
Joan B. Rose Michigan State University
David J. Schwab
David J. Schwab Michigan Technological University
Stephen B. Weisberg
Stephen B. Weisberg Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Eric A. Johnson
Eric A. Johnson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard A. Haugland
Richard A. Haugland Environmental Protection Agency
Stefan Wuertz
Stefan Wuertz Nanyang Technological University

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