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Staff Profile

Tom Jordan today, by picture of himself from 1981

Thomas Jordan

Principal Investigator, Senior Scientist

Research Labs

Nutrient Cycles

jordanth@si.edu

Expert Areas

Chesapeake Bay

ecology

ecosystems

environmental chemistry

landscape ecology

nitrogen cycling

nutrient pollution

watersheds

Publications

Hogan, D. M., Jordan, Thomas E. and Walbridge, M. R. (2004). Phosphorus retention and soil organic carbon in restored and natural freshwater wetlands . Wetlands, 24 , 573-585.
Breitburg, Denise L., Bartell, S. M., Brandt, S. B., Bundy, M. H., Gilmour, Cynthia C., Jordan, Thomas E., Lipton, D. L., Magnien, R. E., McManus, G., Osman, Richard W., Riedel, Gerhardt, Sellner, Kevin G., Sanders, J. G., Seitzinger, S. and Weller, Donald E. . (2003). Importance of understanding ecological complexity to predicting effects of multiple stressors on coastal systems (COASTES Project). Final Report. Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center .
Breitburg, Denise L., Jordan, Thomas E. and Lipton, D. (2003). Preface - From ecology to economics: tracing human influence in the Patuxent River estuary and its watershed . Estuaries and Coasts, 26 (2) , 167-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695959
Breitburg, Denise L., Jordan, Thomas E. and Lipton, Douglas W. (2003). From ecology to economics : tracing human influence in the Patuxent River Estuary and its watershed. Estuarine Research Federation .
Castro, M. S., Driscoll, C. T., Jordan, Thomas E., Reay, W. G. and Boynton, W. R. (2003). Sources of nitrogen to estuaries in the United States. Estuaries, 26 , 803-814.
Jordan, Thomas E., Weller, Donald E. and Correll, David L. (2003). Sources of nutrient inputs to the Patuxen River estuary . Estuaries, 26 , 226-243.
Jordan, Thomas E., Whigham, Dennis F., Hofmockel, Kirsten H. and Pittek, Mary A. (2003). Nutrient and sediment removal by a restored wetland receiving agricultural runoff . Journal of Environmental Quality, 32 , 1534-1547.
Weller, Donald E., Jordan, Thomas E., Correll, David L. and Liu, Zhi-Jun. (2003). Effects of land-use change on nutrient discharges from the Patuxent River watershed . Estuaries, 26 , 244-266.
Whigham, Dennis F. and Jordan, Thomas E. (2003). Isolated wetlands and water quality . Wetlands, 23 , 541-549.
Whigham, Dennis F., Weller, Donald E., Jacobs, A. D., Jordan, Thomas E. and Kentula, M. E. (2003). Assessing the ecological condition of wetlands at the catchment scale . Landschap, 20 , 99-112.
Gallegos, Charles L. and Jordan, Thomas E. (2002). Impact of the Spring 2000 phytoplankton bloom in Chesapeake Bay on optical properties and light penetration in the Rhode River, Maryland . Estuaries, 25 , 508-518.
Whigham, Dennis F., Pittek, Mary, Hofmockel, Kirsten H., Jordan, Thomas E. and Pepin, Antoinette L. (2002). Biomass and nutrient dynamics in restored wetlands on the Outer Coastal Plain of Maryland, USA . Wetlands, 22 , 562-574.
Castro, Mark S., Driscoll, C. T., Jordan, Thomas E., Reay, W. G., Boynton, W. R., Seitzinger, S. P., Styles, R. V. and Cable, J. E. (2001). Contribution of atmospheric deposition to the total nitrogen loads to thirty-four estuaries on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. Nitrogen loading in coastal water bodies: an atmospheric perspective (77-106) American Geophysical Union .
Correll, David L., Jordan, Thomas E. and Weller, Donald E. (2001). Effects of precipitation and air temperature on organic carbon discharges from Rhode River watersheds . Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 28 , 139-159.
Correll, David L., Jordan, Thomas E. and Weller, Donald E. (2000). Transfer of Phosphorus from the farm to the Bay . Agriculture and Phosphorus management: the Chesapeake Bay (131-144) Lewis Publishers .

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