Updated 27 October 2009

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Submitted manuscripts

  • N. R. De Sieyes, K. M. Yamahara, A. Paytan, A. B. Boehm. 200_. Submarine groundwater discharge to a high-energy surf zone at Stinson Beach, California, estimated using radium isotopes. Submitted.
  • J. Davis, A. B. Boehm, A. J. Pickering, K. Rogers, S. Mamuya. 200_. Bacterial contamination levels in stored water and on mothers' hands are affected by informational interventions: Experience from peri-urban communities in Tanzania. Submitted.
  • B. A. Layton, S. P. Walters, L. Lam, A. B. Boehm. 200_. Enterococcus species distribution among human and animal hosts using multiplex PCR. Submitted.
  • K. L. Knee, J. H. Street, E. G. Grossman, A. B. Boehm, and A. Paytan. 200_. Nutrient inputs to the coastal ocean from submarine groundwater discharge in a groundwater-dominated system: relation to land use (Kona coast, Hawai`i, USA). Submitted.
In press
  • A. J. Pickering, A. B. Boehm, Mathew Mwanjali, J. Davis. 200_. Efficacy of waterless hand hygiene as compared to handwashing with soap: A field study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In press at American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
  • A. E. Santoro, N. J. Nidzieko, G. L. van Dijken, K. R. Arrigo, A. B. Boehm. 200_. Contrasting spring and summer phytoplankton dynamics in the nearshore Southern California Bight. Accepted at Limnology and Oceanography.
  • H. M. Horak, J. S. Chynoweth, W. P. Myers, J. A. Davis, S. Fendorf, A. B. Boehm. 200_. Water quality of water in rain catchments compared to other drinking water sources in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. In press at Journal of Water and Health.
2009
  • S. P. Walters, K. M. Yamahara, A. B Boehm. 2009. Persistence of nucleic acid markers of health-relevant organisms in seawater microcosms: Implications for their use in assessing risk in recreational waters. In press at Water Research. Special issue on microbial method comparisons, 43, 4929-4939. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm, J. Griffith, C. McGee, T. Edge, H. Solo-Gabriele, R. Whitman, Y. Cao, M. Getrich, J. A. Jay, D. Ferguson, K. Goodwin, C. Lee, M. Madison, S. Weisberg. 2009. Fecal indicator bacteria enumeration in beach sand: A comparison study of extraction methods in medium to coarse sands. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 107, 1740 - 1750. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm, K. M. Yamahara, D. C. Love, B. M. Peterson, K. McNeill, K. L. Nelson. 2009. Covariation and photoinactivation of traditional and novel indicator organisms and human viruses at a sewage-impacted marine beach. Environmental Science & Technology, 43, 8046-8052. Link.
  • T. R. Julian, R. A. Canales, J. O. Leckie, A. B. Boehm. 2009. A model of exposure to rotavirus from non-dietary ingestion iterated by simulated intermittent contacts. Risk Analysis, 25, 617-632. Link.
  • B. A. Layton, S. P. Walters, and A. B. Boehm. 2009. Distribution and diversity of the enterococcal surface protein (esp) gene in animal hosts and the Pacific Coast Environment. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 106, 1521-1531. Link.
  • K. M. Yamahara, S. P. Walters, and A. B. Boehm. 2009. Growth of enterococci in unaltered, unseeded beach sands subjected to tidal wetting. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75, 1517-1524. Link. In the original version of the paper, the color of the circles in Fig 1C are reversed from what they should be.
  • D. P. Keymer, L. Lam, and A. B. Boehm. 2009. Biogeographic patterns in genomic diversity among a large collection of Vibrio cholerae isolates.Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75, 1658-1666. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm, N. J. Ashbolt, J. M. Colford, Jr., L. E. Dunbar, L. E. Fleming, M. A. Gold, J. A. Hansel, P. R. Hunter, A. M. Ichida, C. D. McGee, J. A. Soller, and S. B. Weisberg. 2009. A sea change ahead for recreational water quality criteria. Journal of Water and Health, 7, 9-20. Link.
2008
  • G. G. Shellenbarger, N. D. Athearn, J. Y. Takekawa, A. B. Boehm. 2008. Fecal indicator bacteria and Salmonella in ponds managed as bird habitat, San Francisco Bay, CA. Water Research , 42, 2921-2930. Link.
  • K. L. Knee, B. A. Layton, J. Street, A. B. Boehm, A. Paytan. 2008. Sources of nutrients and fecal indicator bacteria to nearshore waters on the North Shore of Kaua`i. Estuaries and Coasts, 31, 607-622. Link to paper. This article was chosen as a feature for Coastal and Estuarine Science News October issue for its strong implication for management of coastal areas. Link
  • N. R. De Sieyes, K. M. Yamahara, B. A. Layton, E. H. Joyce, A. B. Boehm. 2008. Submarine discharge of nutrient enriched fresh groundwater at Stinson Beach, California is enhanced during neap tides. Limnology and Oceanography, 53, 1434-1445. Link to paper.
  • A. E. Santoro, C. A. Francis, N. DeSieyes, A. B. Boehm. 2008. Shifts in the relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea across physicochemical gradients in a subterranean estuary. Environmental Microbiology, 10, 1069-1079. Link to paper.
2007
  • A. B. Boehm. 2007. Enterococci concentrations in diverse coastal environments exhibit extreme variability. Environmental Science & Technology, 41, 8227-8232. Link to paper.
  • A. E. Santoro and A. B. Boehm. 2007. Frequent occurrence of the human-specific Bacteroides fecal marker at an open coast marine beach: Relationship to waves, tides, and traditional indicators. Environmental Microbiology, 9, 2038-2049. Link to paper.
  • K. M. Yamahara, B. A. Layton, A. E. Santoro, A. B. Boehm. 2007. Beach sands along the California coast are diffuse sources of fecal bacteria to coastal waters. Environmental Science & Technology, 41, 4515-4521. Link to paper.
  • D. P. Keymer, M. C. Miller, G. K. Schoolnik, A. B. Boehm. 2007. Genomic and phenotypic diversity of coastal Vibrio cholerae is explained by environmental factors. 2007. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73, 3705-3714. Link to paper.
  • M. C. Miller, D. P. Keymer, A. Avelar, A. B. Boehm, G. K. Schoolnik. 2007. Detection and transformation of genome segments variable within a coastal population of Vibrio cholerae. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73, 3695-3704. Link to paper.
2006
  • D. Hou, S. J. Rabinovici, A. B. Boehm. 2006. Enterococci predictions from a partial least squares regression model can improve the efficacy of beach management advisories. Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 1737 -1743 Link.
  • A. E. Santoro, A. B. Boehm, C. A. Francis. 2006. Denitrifier community composition along a nitrate and salinity gradient in a coastal aquifer. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, 2102-2109. Link to paper.
  • A. B. Boehm, A. Paytan, G. G. Shellenbarger, K. A. Davis. 2006. Composition and flux of groundwater from a California beach aquifer: Implications for nutrient supply to the surf zone. Continental Shelf Research, 26, 269-282. Link. Due to a typesetting error, equation 7 is not printed correctly. Please download the errata.
  • S. Given, L. H. Pendleton, A. B. Boehm. 2006. Regional public health cost estimates of contaminated coastal waters: A case study of gastroenteritis at Southern California beaches. Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 4851 - 4858 Link.
  • N. B. Handler, A. Paytan, C. P. Higgins, R. G. Luthy, and A. B. Boehm. 2006. Human development is linked to multiple water-body impairments along the California Coast. Estuaries and Coasts (formerly Estuaries), 29, 860-870. Link.
2005
  • A. B. Boehm, D. P. Keymer, G. G. Shellenbarger. 2005. An analytical model of enterococci inactivation, grazing, and transport in the surf zone of a marine beach. Water Research, 39, 3565-3578. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm and S. B. Weisberg. 2005. Tidal forcing of enterococci at marine recreational beaches at fortnightly and semidiurnal frequencies. Environmental Science & Technology, 39, 5575-5583. Link.
2004
  • A. B. Boehm, G. G. Shellenbarger, and A. Paytan. 2004. Groundwater Discharge: A potential association with fecal indicator bacteria in the surf zone. Environmental Science & Technology, 38, 3558-3566. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm, D. B. Lluch-Cota, K. A. Davis, C. D. Winant, and S. G. Monismith. 2004. Covariation of coastal water temperature and microbial pollution at interannual to tidal periods. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L06309, doi:10.1029/2003GL019122. Link.
  • R. L. Reeves, S. B. Grant, R. D. Mrse, C. M. C. Oancea, B. F. Sanders, A. B. Boehm. 2004. Sources, management, and scaling of fecal indicator bacteria in runoff from a coastal urban watershed in Southern California. Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 2637-2648. Link.
2003
  • A. B. Boehm. 2003. A model of microbial transport and inactivation in the surf zone and application to field measurements of total coliform in Northern Orange County, California. Environmental Science & Technology, 37, 5511-5517. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm, J. A. Fuhrman, R. D. Mrse, and S. B. Grant. 2003. A tiered approach for identification of a human fecal pollution source at a recreational beach: Case study at Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, California, USA. Environmental Science & Technology, 37, 673-680. Reprint.
2002
  • A. B. Boehm, S. B. Grant, J.-H. Kim, S. L. Mowbray, C. D. McGee, C. D. Clark, D. M. Foley, and D. E. Wellman. 2002. Decadal and shorter period variability of surf zone water quality at Huntington Beach, California. Environmental Science & Technology, 36, 3885-3892. Click here for a view of the cover of the Sept. 15 2002 ES&T featuring this paper. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm, B. F. Sanders, and C. D. Winant. 2002. Cross-shelf transport at Huntington Beach -Implications for the fate of sewage discharged through an offshore ocean outfall. Environmental Science & Technology, 36, 1899-1906. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm. 2002. A Scaling theory for number-flux distributions generated during steady-state coagulation and settling and application to particles in Lake Zurich, Switzerland. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 254, 266-273. Link.
2001
  • S. B. Grant, B. F. Sanders, A. B. Boehm, J. A. Redman, J. H. Kim, R. D. Mrse, and others. 2001. Generation of enterococci bacteria in a coastal saltwater marsh and its impact on surf zone water quality. Environmental Science & Technology, 35, 2407-2416. Link.
  • A. B. Boehm and S. B. Grant. 2001. A steady-state model of particulate organic carbon flux below the mixed layer and application to the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 106, 31227-21237. Link.
1998
  • A. B. Boehm and S. B. Grant. 1998. The influence of coagulation, sedimentation, and grazing by zooplankton on phytoplankton aggregate size distributions in aquatic systems. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 103, 15601-15612. Link to abstract available.
  • A. B. Boehm, C. Poor, and S. B. Grant. 1998. Particle coagulation and the memory of initial conditions, Journal of Physics A: Mathematics and General, 31, 9241-9254. Link.