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Research presentations that I have given
 | Louise Wootton. 2006.
Rapid Expansion of the Large-Headed Sedge,
Carex macrocephala, at Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, Monmouth
County, New Jersey.
Atlantic Estuarine Research Federation Fall Meeting. Baltimore MD.
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 | Louise Wootton.
2006.
Carex macrocephala: A new threat to the
ecology of New Jersey's coastal dunes?
Atlantic Estuarine
Research Federation Spring Meeting. Philadelphia, Pa. |
 | Wootton, L.S.
2005. Motivating
use of technology in a first year seminar class. 14th International Conference
on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida.
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 | Wootton LS, Burkitt JW, VanWagner C, Myatt S. 2004. Use of GIS in
assessing patterns of density and impacts on native diversity of the invasive sedge, Carex
kobomugi in New Jersey coastal dunes. ASLO.
Savannah GA.
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 | Louise Wootton. 2004. When invasive
species have benefits as well as costs: Managing Carex kobomugi (Asiatic Sand
Sedge) in New Jersey's Coastal Dunes. Horn Point Laboratory, Seminar Series.
University of Maryland. |
 | Wootton, L.S. 2003. Spread rate and changes in species diversity associated with
the introduced Asian sand sedge, Carex kobomugi, in New Jersey
coastal dune communities. Coastal
Zone 2003 Baltimore. (Given by Audrey McGough due to
an illness in my family) |
 | Louise
Wootton, Katy Bevaart, Audrey McGough, Jason Ondreika, Purvi Patel and Susan Halsey. 2003.
Assessment of
spread rates and effectiveness of management strategies for Carex kobomugi (Asiatic sand sedge) in two New Jersey coastal parks. Third international conference on Marine Bioinvasions. San Diego.
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 | Wootton.
Louise S. 1999.
Simulation
of the dynamics of detrital decomposition in aquatic ecosystems using STELLA modeling. New Jersey
Academy of Science Annual Meeting. Georgian Court College, NJ. |
 | Wootton, L.S. 1998. Influence of
protein, energy and particle size upon the value of detrital materials as food sources for
the estuarine amphipod Gammarus mucronatus. New Jersey. Academy of
Science 1998 Annual Meeting. Monmouth University, NJ. |
 | Wootton, L.S. 1993. Measures of digestible
protein and energy content of macrophyte detritus using a new, in vitro,
enzymatic-degradation technique. 12th Biennial International ERF Conference.
Hilton Head, South Carolina. |
 | Wootton. L.S., M.R. Roman and L.M. Mayer. 1992.
Food quality of four different plant materials at different stages of degradation.
ASLO Winter Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
 | Wootton, L.S. and A.G. Lewis. 1990.
Bacterial modification of the palatability of salt flocculated organic material to a
harpactacoid copepod. ASLO Winter Meeting, New Orleans, Louisianna.
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 | Wootton, L.S. and A.G. Lewis. 1989.
Salt-flocculated organic material as a food source in estuarine food webs. ASLO Summer
Meeting. Fairbanks, Alaska |
Research presentations that I have co-authored with faculty colleagues
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Susan
Halsey, Courtney Rella and Louise Wootton.
2006. Testing management strategies for the invasive Asiatic sand
sedge Carex kobomugi, in New Jersey's coastal dunes.
Geological Society of
America, Northeastern
Section. |
 | Emily Parker, Susan Halsey and Louise Wootton.
2005. Monitoring results of herbicide treatments and other
techniques to manage Carex kobomugi (Asiatic Sand Sedge), an invasive plant species, in
New Jersey's Coastal Dunes. Geological Society of America, Joint
Meeting of the Northeastern and SouthEastern Sections, Saratoga Springs. NY. |
 | Susan
Halsey and Louise Wootton. 2004. When policy drives management: strategies to eliminate Carex
kobomugi (Asiatic Sand Sedge), and exotic invasive in dunes with within federal and
state parks. Geological Society of America, Joint Meeting of the
Northeastern and SouthEastern Sections, Washington DC. |
 | Louise
Wootton and Susan Halsey. 2003. Removal of an exotic invasive, Carex kobomugi (Asiatic sand
sedge), from New Jerseys coastal dunes: Implications
for coastal Dune Stability. Geological
Society of America, Northeastern Section. Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
Research presentations that my students
have given
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Jim Burkitt and Louise Wootton.
2008. Role of habitat disturbance in
determining invasion success for Carex kobomugi in New Jersey Coastal
Dunes. Spring Meeting of the Atlantic Estuarine Research Federation.
Lewes Delaware. |
 | Jessica Keiper (co-mentored with Dr. Carolyn Bergman).
2008. Determination of
genetic variability in
Carex kobomugi.
Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Academy of Sciences. Kean University.
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 | Emily Parker
and Louise Wootton. 2005.
Monitoring the Impact of Herbicide Application on Invasive and
Native Plants in a
New Jersey Coastal Dune System.
NJAS 50th Annual Meeting. NJIT.
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 | Courtney Rella,
Louise Wootton and Paul Bologna.
2005. Determination of genetic differences between seagrasses
growing in pristine versus eutrophied portions of Barnegat Bay. TriBeta Annual
Convention. The College of New Jersey. |
 | Burkitt, James, Wootton, Louise, Parker, Emily, Rella,
Courtney, Bevaart, Katy. 2004. Use of GIS technology to
show the impact of the invasive Carex kobomugi on species distribution, diversity
and richness in a
New Jersey coastal dune system. Atlantic Estuarine Research
Federation. Meadowlands, NJ. |
 | McGough, Audrey, Wootton, Louise. 2004.
Effects of seagrass decomposition and litterbag
location on feeding preferences of the amphipod Gammarus mucronatus.
Atlantic
Estuarine Research Federation. Meadowlands, NJ. |
 | Jim Burkitt, Louise Wootton, Sharon Myatt and Crystal
VanWagner. 2004.
Illustrating
differences in impact of the invasive Asiatic Sand Sedge Carex kobomugi on native
species diversity and species richness in pristine versus human-impacted sand dune
systems. ASLO. Savannah GA. |
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Crystal
VanWagner,
Sharon Myatt, Jim Burkitt, Louise Wootton.
2004.
Impact of Carex
kobomugi on plant species diversity and species richness in
Island
Beach
State Parks sand dune
systems.
NJAS. Farleigh Dickenson
University, NJ |
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Sharon Myatt, Crystal
VanWagner, Jim Burkitt, Louise Wootton. 2004. Impact
of Carex kobomugi, Asiatic sand sedge, on native species diversity and species
richness in coastal dunes at the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation area in
New Jersey. NJAS
Farleigh Dickenson
University, NJ |
 | Kara Hendry, Lindsey Vestyck, Marnie Richtmeyer and
Louise Wootton. 2004. Use of Randomly Amplified
Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis as a tool for determining the genetic diversity within
populations of the invasive Asiatic sand sedge, Carex kobomugi. NJAS.
Farleigh Dickenson
University, NJ.
Note: This paper won
the NJAS Award for Excellence in Marine and Coastal Science |
 | Audrey McGough, Katy Bevaart, Jason Ondreika, Purvi
Patel and Louise Wootton.
Effectiveness of low-impact management strategies for
eradication of Carex kobomugi (Asian sand sedge) from dune communities within New
Jerseys coastal parks.
Coastal
Zone 2003 Baltimore.
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 | Audrey McGough and Louise Wootton 2002. Zooplankton abundance and species composition in Northern Barnegat Bay.
New Jersey Academy of Sciences 2002 Annual Meeting. Kean
University.
Note: This paper won
the
NJAS Award for Excellence in Marine and Coastal Science |
 | Azalea-Lisa Chandler and Louise S. Wootton. 2000.
The effects of drainage overflow on the water quality of
Twilight Lake, Bayhead, New Jersey. New Jersey Academy of Science 2000 Annual
Meeting. Georgian Court College, NJ. |
 | Robert W. Zimmerman and Louise S. Wootton. 1999.
Above-ground and
below-ground biomass of Zostera marina in the central region of Barnegat Bay, NJ.
New Jersey Academy of Science 1999 Annual Meeting. Georgian Court College, NJ. |
Upcoming Research presentations
 | None currently scheduled |
In-House Student Presentations
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