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Email: bnowicki@uri.edu

Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1991

M.S. in Biological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1983

B.S. in Biology, Syracuse University, 1974

For Undergraduate Environmental Research

Adjunct Associate Professor
Dept. of Natural Resources Science, URI
 

Clough, T.J., Bertram, J., Sherlock, R., Leonard, R.and B. Nowicki. 2006. Comparison of measured and EF5-r-derived N2O fluxes from a spring-fed river. Global Change Biology 12:352-363.

Addy, K., Gold, A., Nowicki, B., McKenna, J., Stolt, M., and P. Groffman. 2005. Denitrification capacity in a subterranean estuary below a Rhode Island fringing salt marsh. Estuaries 28(6):896-908.

Davis, J. L., Nowicki, B., and C. Wigand. 2004. Denitrification in fringing salt marshes of Narragansett Bay, R.I. (USA). Wetlands 24(4):870-878.

Nowicki, B.L., E. Requintina, D. Van Keuren, and J. Portnoy. 1999. The role of sediment denitrification in reducing groundwater-derived nitrate inputs to Nauset Marsh Estuary, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Estuaries 22(2):245-259.

Portnoy, J.W., B.L. Nowicki, C.T. Roman, and D.W. Urish. 1998. The discharge of nitrate-contaminated groundwater from developed shoreline to marsh-fringed estuary. Water Resources Research 34(11):3095-3104.

Nowicki, B.L., J.R. Kelly, E. Requintina, and D. VanKeuren. 1997. Nitrogen losses through sediment denitrification in Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay. Estuaries. 20(3):626-639.

Nixon, S.W., S.L. Granger, and B.L. Nowicki. 1995. An assessment of the annual mass balance of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in Narragansett Bay. Biogeochemistry 31:15-61.

Doering, P.H., C.A. Oviatt, B.L. Nowicki, E.G. Klos, and L. Reed. 1995. Phosphorus and nitrogen limitation of primary production in a simulated estuarine gradient. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 124:271-287.

Oviatt, C.A., P.H. Doering, B.L. Nowicki, L. Reed, J. Cole, and J. Frithsen. 1995. An ecosystem level experiment on nutrient limitation in temperate coastal marine environments. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 116:171-179.

Nowicki, B.L. 1994. The effect of temperature, oxygen, salinity, and nutrient enrichment on estuarine denitrification rates measured with a modified nitrogen gas flux technique. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 38:137-156.

Oviatt, C.A., P.H. Doering, B.L. Nowicki, and A. Zoppinni. 1993. Net system production in c­oastal waters as a function of eutrophication, seasonality, and benthic macrofaunal abundance. Estuaries. 16(2):247-254.

Nowicki, B.L. and C.A. Oviatt. 1990. "Are estuaries traps for anthropogenic nutrients? Evidence from estuarine mesocosms," Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 66:131-146.

Nixon, S.W., C.D. Hunt, and B.L. Nowicki.  1986.  "The retention of nutrients (C, N, P), heavy metals (Mn, Cd, Pb, Cu), and petroleum hydrocarbons in Narragansett Bay.  In: Lasserre, P. and J. Martin (eds.), Biogeochemical Processes at the Land-Sea Boundary," Elsevier Oceanography Series 43, Elsevier Press, NY, pp. 99-122.

Nowicki, B.L. and S.W. Nixon. 1985. "Benthic nutrient remineralization in a coastal lagoon ecosystem," Estuaries 8(2B):182-190.

Nowicki, B.L. and S.W. Nixon. 1985. "Benthic community metabolism in a coastal lagoon ecosystem," Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 22:21-30.

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Water Research, Estuaries,