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Select Scientific Publications Informing the R2R Initiative

Amato, D.W., Bishop, J.M., Glenn, C.R., Dulai, H., Smith, C.M., 2016. Impact of submarine groundwater discharge on marine water quality and reef biota of Maui. PLoS ONE 11 (11), e0165825, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165825  
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27812171
 
Bishop, J.M., Glenn, C.R., Amato, D.W., Dulai, H., 2015. Effect of land use and groundwater flow path on submarine groundwater discharge nutrient flux. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.10.008 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581815001135
 
Cochran, S.A., Gibbs, A.E., D.J., W., 2014. Benthic habitat map of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Watershed Partnership Initiative Kāʻanapali priority study area and the State of Hawaiʻi Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area, west-central Maui,  Hawaiʻi. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1129, p. 42 p
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1129/
 
Dailer, M.L., Knox, R.S., Smith, J.E., Napier, M., Smith, C.M., 2010. Using δ15N values in algal tissue to map locations and potential sources of anthropogenic nutrient inputs on the island of Maui, Hawai‘i, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin 60 (5), 655-671, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2009.12.021.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20070989
 
Dailer, M.L., Ramey, H.L., Saephan, S., Smith, C.M., 2012. Algal δ15N values detect a wastewater effluent plume in nearshore and offshore surface waters and three-dimensionally model the plume across a coral reef on Maui, Hawai‘i, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin 64 (2), 207-213, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.12.004.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22225912
 
*DeCarlo, T.M., Cohen, A.L., Barkley, H.C., Cobban, Q., Young, C., Shamberger, K.E., Brainard, R.E., Golbuu, Y., 2015. Coral macrobioerosion is accelerated by ocean acidification and nutrients. Geology 43 (1), 7-10, doi:10.1130/G36147.1.
www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=217244&pt=2&p=36767
 
Fackrell, J.K., Glenn, C.R., Popp, B.N., Whittier, R.B., Dulai, H., 2016. Wastewater injection, aquifer biogeochemical reactions, and resultant groundwater N fluxes to coastal waters: Kā'anapali, Maui, Hawai'i. Marine Pollution Bulletin 110 (1), 281-292, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.050.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X16304544
 
Glenn, C.R., Whittier, R.B., Dailer, M.L., Dulaiova, H., El-Kadi, A.I., Fackrell, J., Kelly, J.L., Waters, C.A., Sevadjian, L., 2013. Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study – Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, Final Report. State of Hawaii Department of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, p. 502 p.
http://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/Lahaina-Tracer-Dye-Study.pdf
 
Hunt, C.D., Jr., Rosa, S.N., 2009. A multitracer approach to detecting wastewater plumes from municipal injection wells in nearshore marine waters at Kihei and Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5253, p. 166 p.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5253/
 
Prouty, N.G, Cohen, A., Yates, K.K., Storlazzi, C.D., Swarzenski,, P.W., and White, D. 2017.  Vulnerability of coral reefs to bioerosion from land-based sources of pollution Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, DOI: 10.1002/2017JC013264. 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JC013264/abstract;jsessionid=CB564149FEE84CC0545A88312A447EC1.f04t01?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+usage+report+download+page+will+be+unavailable+on+Friday+24th+November+2017+at+21%3A00+EST+%2F+02.00+GMT+%2F+10%3A00+SGT+%28Saturday+25th+Nov+for+SGT+
 
Rodgers, K.u.S., Jokiel, P.L., Brown, E.K., Hau, S., Sparks, R., 2015. Over a decade of change in spatial and temporal dynamics of Hawaiian coral reef communities 1. Pacific Science 69 (1), 1-13, doi:10.2984/69.1.1.
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2984/69.1.1
 
Ross, M., White, D., Aiwohi, M., Walton, M., Sudek, M., Lager, D., Jokiel, P., 2012. Characterization of “dead zones” and population demography of Porites compressa along a gradient of anthropogenic nutrient input at Kahekili Beach Park, Maui. Final Report for Project C11722. State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813.
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dar/files/2016/07/Maui_Mon_Report.pdf
 
Silbiger, N.J., Donahue, M.J., Brainard, R.E., 2017. Environmental drivers of coral reef carbonate production and bioerosion: a multi-scale analysis. Ecology, doi: 10.1002/ecy.1946
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.1946/suppinfo
 
Smith, J.E., Runcie, J.W., Smith, C.M., 2005. Characterization of a large-scale ephemeral bloom of the green alga Cladophora sericea on the coral reefs of West Maui, Hawaii. Marine Ecology Progress Series 302, 77-91.
http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/jes013/content/characterization-large-scale-ephemeral-bloom-green-alga-cladophora-sericea-coral-reefs-west-
 
Swarzenski, P., Dulai, H., Kroeger, K., Smith, C., Dimova, N., Storlazzi, C., Prouty, N., Gingerich, S., Glenn, C., 2016. Observations of nearshore groundwater discharge: Kahekili Beach Park submarine springs, Maui, Hawaii. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.12.056. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581815002062
 
Swarzenski, P.W., Storlazzi, C.D., Presto, M.K., Gibbs, A.E., Smith, C.G., Dimova, N.T., Dailer, M.L., Logan, J.B., 2012. Nearshore morphology, benthic structure, hydrodynamics, and coastal groundwater discharge near Kahekili Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii:. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1166, p. 34 p.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1166/
     
Wiltse, W., 1996. Algal Blooms: Progress Report on Scientific Research. West Maui Watershed Management Project, State of Hawaii Department of Health, Honolulu. 64 pp
 
*Yates, K.K., Zawada, D.G., Smiley, N.A., Tiling-Range, G., 2017. Divergence of seafloor elevation and sea level rise in coral reef ecosystems. Biogeosciences 14 (6), 1739-1772, doi:10.5194/bg-14-1739-2017.
https://www.biogeosciences.net/14/1739/2017/
 
*non Maui specific but critical to discussion

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