Updated Jan 2012

Click here for book chapters Submitted manuscripts T. L. Russell, K. M. Yamahara, A. B. Boehm. 201_. Mobilization and transport of naturally occurring enterococci in beach sands subject to transient infiltration of seawater. Submitted. L. M. Sassoubre, D. C. Love, A. I. Silverman, K. L. Nelson, A. B. Boehm. 201_. Comparison of enterovirus and adenovirus concentration and enumeration methods in seawater from Southern California, USA and Baja Malibu, Mexico. Submitted. A. J. Pickering, T. R. Julian, S. J. Marks, M. C. Mattioli, A. B. Boehm, K. J. Schwab, J. Davis. 201_. Fecal contamination and diarrheal pathogens on surfaces and soil show spatial heterogeneity within Tanzanian households and no association with improved sanitation. Submitted. N. R. De Sieyes, T. L. Russell, C. N. McClain, N. P. Crook, A. B. Boehm. 201_. Nitrogen, fecal indicator bacteria, and coliphage attenuation and flux from a septic leach field to the coastal ocean. Submitted.

In press K. M. Yamahara, L. M. Sassoubre, K. D. Goodwin, A. B. Boehm. 2012. Occurrence and persistence of human pathogens and indicator organisms in beach sands along the California coast. Accepted at Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

2012 S. H. C. Wong, A. E. Santoro, N. J. Nidzieko, J. L. Hench, A. B. Boehm. 2012. Coupled physical, chemical, and microbiological measurements suggest a connection between internal waves and surf zone water quality in the Southern California Bight. Continental Shelf Research, 34, 64-78. Link. P. A. Maraccini, D. M. Ferguson, A. B. Boehm. 2012. Diurnal variation in Enterococcus species composition in polluted ocean water: A potential role for enterococcal carotenoids in protection against photoinactivation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78, 305-310. Link.

2011 E. J. Viau, A. B. Boehm. 2011. Quantitative PCR-based detection of pathogenic Leptospira in Hawaiian coastal streams. Journal of Water and Health , 9, 637-646. H.-I. Tong, C. Connell, A. B. Boehm, Y. Lu. 2011. Effective detection of human noroviruses in Hawaiian waters using enhanced RT-PCR methods. Water Research, 45, 5837-5848. Link. K. Knee, E. Garcia-Solsona, J. Garcia-Orellana, A. B. Boehm, A. Paytan. 2011. Using radium isotopes to characterize water ages and coastal mixing rates: A sensitivity analysis. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 9, 380-395. Link T. R. Julian, F. J. Tamayo, J. O. Leckie, A. B. Boehm. 2011. A comparison of surface sampling methods for virus recovery from fomites. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77, 6918-6925. Link. E. J. Viau, D. Lee, A. B. Boehm. 2011. Swimmer risk of gastrointestinal illness from exposure to tropical coastal waters contaminated with terrestrial runoff. Environmental Science and Technology, , 45 (17), 7158- 7165. Link. A. B. Boehm, K. M. Yamahara, S. P. Walters, B. A. Layton, D. P. Keymer, R. S. Thompson, K. L. Knee, and M. Rosener. 2011. Dissolved inorganic nitrogen, soluble reactive phosphorous, and microbial pollutant loading from tropical rural watersheds in Hawai'i to the coastal ocean during non-storm conditions. Estuaries and Coasts, 34 (5): 925-936. Link. A. J. Pickering, J. Davis, A. B. Boehm. 2011. Efficacy of alcohol-based hand sanitizer on hands soiled with dirt and cooking oil. Journal of Water and Health, 9 (3), 429-433. L. M. Sassoubre, S. P. Walters, T. Russell, A. B. Boehm. 2011. Sources and fate of Salmonella and fecal indicator bacteria in an urban stream. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 13 (8), 2206-2212. Link . G. Imamura, R. M. Strickfaden, A. B. Boehm, J. A. Jay. 2011. Beach wrack is a reservoir for faecal indicator bacteria along the California coast, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 77, 40-49. Link. E. J. Viau, K. Goodwin, K. M. Yamahara, L. M. Sassoubre, B. A. Layton, S. Burns, H-I Tong, S. H. C. Wong, Y. Lu, A. B. Boehm. 2011. Bacterial pathogens in Hawaiian coastal stream - associations with fecal indicators, land cover, and water quality. Water Research, 45, 3279-3290. Link. N. R. De Sieyes, K. M. Yamahara, A. Paytan, A. B. Boehm. 2011. Submarine groundwater discharge to a high-energy surf zone at Stinson Beach, California, estimated using radium isotopes. Estuaries and Coasts, 34, 256-266. Link. S. P. Walters, A. L. Thebo, A. B. Boehm. 2011. Impact of urbanization and agriculture on the occurrence of bacterial pathogens and Stx genes in coastal waterbodies of Central California. Water Research, 45, 1752-1762. Link. D. P. Keymer and A. B. Boehm. 2011. Recombination shapes the structure of an environmental Vibrio cholerae population. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77, 537-544. Link. A. J. Pickering, T. R. Julian, S. Mamuya, A. B. Boehm, J. Davis. 2011. Hand fecal contamination among Tanzanian mothers varies temporally and following household activities. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 16, 233-239. Link. J. Davis, A. J. Pickering, K. Rogers, S. Mamuya, and A. B. Boehm. 2011. The effects of informational interventions on household water management, hygiene behaviors, stored drinking water quality, and hand contamination in peri-urban Tanzania. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 84, 184-191. Link. M. Goebes, A. B. Boehm, L. Hildemann. 2011. Contributions of foot traffic and outdoor concentrations to indoor airborne Aspergillus. Aerosol Science & Technology, 45, 352-363. Link. P. K. Bienfang, S. V. DeFelice, E. A. Laws, L. E. Brand, R. R. Bidigare, S. Christensen, H. Trapido-Rosenthal, T. K. Hernscheidt, D. J. McGillicuddy, D. M. Anderson, H. M. Solo-Gabriele, A. B. Boehm, L. C. Backer. 2011. Prominent human health impacts from several marine microbes: History, ecology, and public health implications. International Journal of Microbiology, 2011, doi:10.1155/2011/152815. Link.

2010 T. R. Julian, J. O. Leckie, A. B. Boehm . 2010. Virus transfer between fingerpads and fomites. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 109, 1868-1874. Link. K. L. Knee, R. Gossett, A. B. Boehm and A. Paytan. 2010. Caffeine and agricultural pesticide concentrations in surface water and groundwater on the north shore of Kaua`i (Hawai`i, USA). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 60, 1376-1382. Link. B. A. Layton, S. P. Walters, L. Lam, A. B. Boehm. 2010. Enterococcus species distribution among human and animal hosts using multiplex PCR. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 109, 539-547. Link. R. L. Whitman, Z. Ge, M. B. Nevers, A. B. Boehm, E. Chern, R. A. Haugland, A. M. Lukasik, M. Molina, K. Przybyla-Kelly, D. A. Shively, E. White, R. G. Zepp, M. N. Byappanahalli. 2010. Relationship and variation of qPCR and culturable enterococci estimates in ambient surface waters are predictable. Environmental Science & Technology, 44, 5049-5054. Link. A. J. Pickering, J. Davis, S. P. Walters, H. M. Horak, D. P. Keymer, D. Mushi, R. Strickfaden, J. S. Chynoweth, J. Liu, A. Blum, K. Rogers, A. B. Boehm. 2010. Hands, water, and health: fecal contamination in Tanzanian communities with improved, non-networked water supplies. Environmental Science & Technology, 44,3267-3272. Link. K. L. Knee, J. H. Street, E. G. Grossman, A. B. Boehm, and A. Paytan. 2010. Nutrient inputs to the coastal ocean from submarine groundwater discharge in a groundwater-dominated system: relation to land use (Kona coast, Hawai`i, USA). Limnology & Oceanography, 55, 1105-1122. A. J. Pickering, A. B. Boehm, Mathew Mwanjali, J. Davis. 2010. Efficacy of waterless hand hygiene as compared to handwashing with soap: A field study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 82, 270-278. Link. H. M. Horak, J. S. Chynoweth, W. P. Myers, J. A. Davis, S. Fendorf, A. B. Boehm. 2010. Water quality of water in rain catchments compared to other drinking water sources in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Water and Health, 8, 126-138. A. E. Santoro, N. J. Nidzieko, G. L. van Dijken, K. R. Arrigo, A. B. Boehm. 2010. Contrasting spring and summer phytoplankton dynamics in the nearshore Southern California Bight. Limnology and Oceanography, 55, 264-278. Link.

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. 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. This paper won best paper of the year in the journal. Link to announcement. 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.