Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• Department of Coastal Studies
• East Carolina University
• Flanagan Building, Suite 250
• Greenville, NC 27858
• Email: charlesse20@ecu.edu

Troxler, T., G. Starr, J.N. Boyer, J.D. Fuentes, R. Jaffe, S.L. Malone, J.G. Barr, S.E. Davis, L. Collado-Vides, J.L. Breithaupt, A.K. Saha, R.M. Chambers, C.J. Madden, J.M. Smoak, J.W. Fourqurean, G. Koch, J. Kominoski, L.J. Scinto, S. Oberbauer, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castañeda-Moya, N.O. Schulte, S.P. Charles, J.H. Richards, D.T. Rudnick, and K.R.T. Whelan. 2019. Chapter 6: Carbon Cycles in the Florida Coastal Everglades Social-Ecological System across Scales, in Childers, D.L., E.E. Gaiser and L.A. Ogden (eds.) The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press : New York, New York.

Sloey, T.M., S.P. Charles, L. Xiong, E. Castañeda-Moya, E.S. Yando, and D. Lagomasino. 2024. Challenges to and importance of considering early and intermediate ontogenetic stages in mangrove forest recovery and restoration. Marine Pollution Bulletin 209, Part B: 117287.

Poulter, B., F.M. Adams-Metayer, C. Amaral, A. Barenblitt, A. Campbell, S.P. Charles, R.M. Roman-Cuesta, R. D'Ascanio, E. Delaria, C. Doughty, T.E. Fatoyinbo, J. Gewirtzman, T.F. Hanisco, M. Hull, S.R. Kawa, R.A. Hannun, D. Lagomasino, L.R. Lait, S.L. Malone, P.A. Newman, P. Raymond, J.A. Rosentreter, N. Thomas, D. Vaughn, G.M. Wolfe, L. Xiong, Q. Ying, and Z. Zhang. 2023. Multi-scale observations of mangrove blue carbon ecosystem fluxes: The NASA Carbon Monitoring System BlueFlux field campaign. Environmental Research Letters 18: 075009.

Ishtiaq, K., T. Troxler, L. Lamb-Wotton, B.J. Wilson, S.P. Charles, S.E. Davis, J. Kominoski, D.T. Rudnick, and F.H. Sklar. 2022. Modeling net ecosystem carbon balance and loss in coastal wetlands exposed to sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion. Ecological Applications 32: e2702.

Xiong, L., D. Lagomasino, S.P. Charles, E. Castañeda-Moya, B. Cook, J. Redwine, and L. Fatoyinbo. 2022. Quantifying mangrove canopy regrowth and recovery after Hurricane Irma with large-scale repeat airborne lidar in the Florida Everglades. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 114: 103031.

Mazzei, V., B.J. Wilson, S. Servais, S.P. Charles, J. Kominoski, and E.E. Gaiser. 2020. Periphyton as an indicator of saltwater intrusion into freshwater wetlands: insights from experimental manipulations. Ecological Applications DOI: 10.1002/eap.2067.

Charles, S.P., J. Kominoski, T. Troxler, E.E. Gaiser, S. Servais, B.J. Wilson, S.E. Davis, F.H. Sklar, C. Coronado-Molina, C.J. Madden, S.P. Kelly, and D.T. Rudnick. 2019. Experimental saltwater intrusion drives rapid soil elevation and carbon loss in freshwater and brackish Everglades marshes. Estuaries and Coasts 42: 1868-1881.

Servais, S., J. Kominoski, S.P. Charles, E.E. Gaiser, V. Mazzei, T. Troxler, and B.J. Wilson. 2019. Saltwater intrusion and soil carbon loss: Testing effects of salinity and phosphorus loading on microbial functions in experimental freshwater wetlands. Geoderma 337: 1291-1300.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, S.P. Charles, V. Mazzei, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, J.H. Richards, and T. Troxler. 2019. Phosphorus alleviation of salinity stress: effects of saltwater intrusion on an Everglades freshwater peat marsh. Ecology 100: e02672.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, S.P. Charles, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, J.H. Richards, and T. Troxler. 2018. Declines in plant productivity drive carbon loss from brackish coastal wetland mesocosms exposed to saltwater intrusion. Estuaries and Coasts 41: 2147-2158.

Charles, Sean . 2018. Saltwater Intrusion and Vegetation Change Drive Changes in Carbon Storage in Coastal Wetlands. Ph.D. dissertation, Florida International University.