Publications
2024
Ralston DK, WR Geyer, CC Wackerman, B Dzwonkowski, DA Honegger, MC Haller, 2024. Interacting influences of diurnal tides, winds, and river discharge on a large coastal plume, J. Geophys. Res., 129(9): e2024JC021288, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021288
Bo, T, DK Ralston, WR Geyer, JC McWilliams, 2024. Small estuaries as sinks of buoyant particles, PNAS, 121 (35) e2401498121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401498121
Eidam, EF, T Souza, M Keogh, DA Sutherland, DK Ralston, J Schmitt, A Helms, 2024. Spatial and temporal variability of century-scale sediment accumulation in an active-margin estuary, Estuaries and Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01407-x
Deitrick, AR, DK Ralston, MM Baustian, CR Esposito, M Beltran-Burgos, AJ Courtois, H Nepf, 2024. Vegetation-generated turbulence does not impact the erosion of natural cohesive sediment, Geophys. Res. Let., 51(4), e2024GL109730, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109730
Honegger, DA, DK Ralston, J Jurisa, WR Geyer, MC Haller, 2024. Kinematics of an ebb plume front controlled by a tidal crossflow, J. Geophys. Res., 129, e2023JC020550, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020550
Wang, A, DK Ralston, N Bi, X Wu, C Wang, P Yuan, H Wang, 2024. Sediment resuspension and transport due to synoptic winter winds in the Bohai Sea, Geomorph., 456:109211, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109211
Bo, T, DK Ralston, AMP Garcia, WR Geyer, 2024. Tidal intrusion fronts, surface convergence, and mixing in an estuary with complex topography, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 54(3):653-677 https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-23-0131.1
Geyer, WR, DK Ralston, MC Haller, C Bassett, DA Honegger, 2024. The Structure and Dynamics of an Estuarine Tidal Intrusion Front, J. Geophys. Res., 129(2): e2023JC020371 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020371
2023
Bassett, C, AC Lavery, DK Ralston, WR Geyer, JT Jurisa, J Thomson, DA Honegger, A Simpson, ME Scully, MC Haller, 2023. Acoustic backscattering at a tidal intrusion front, Prog. Oceanogr., 219, 103167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103167.
Deitrick, AR, EH Hovendon, DK Ralston, HM Nepf, 2023, Sediment deposition reduced by vegetation-generated turbulence within a model array of mangrove roots, Front. Mar. Sci., 10: 1266241, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1266241.
Bo, T, DK Ralston, WR Geyer, 2023. Sources of drag in estuarine meanders: momentum redistribution, bottom stress enhancement, and bend-scale form drag. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 53(7):1629-1650 https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0211.1
Orton, P, DK Ralston, B van Prooijen, D Secor, N Ganju, Z Chen, S Fernald, B Brooks, Kristin Marcell, 2023. Increased Utilization of Storm Surge Barriers: A Research Agenda on Estuary Impacts, Earth’s Future, 11(3): e2022EF002991. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002991.
Ralston, DK, 2023. Changes in estuarine sediment dynamics with a storm surge barrier, Estuaries and Coasts, 46, 678–696, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01172-3.
2022
Wang, A, X Wu, N Bi, DK Ralston, C Wang, H Wang, 2022. Combined effects of waves and tides on bottom sediment resuspension in the southern Yellow Sea, Mar. Geol., 452, 106892, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106892.
Bo, T, and DK Ralston, 2022. Frontogenesis, mixing, and stratification in estuarine channels with curvature, J. Physical Oceanogr., 52: 1333–1350, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0298.1 .
Ralston, DK, 2022. Impacts of storm surge barriers on drag, mixing, and exchange flow in a partially mixed estuary, J. Geophys. Res., 127(4):e2021JC018246, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018246 .
Clark, S, KA Hubbard, DK Ralston, DJ McGillicuddy, C Stock, MA Alexander, E Curchitser, 2022. Projected effects of climate change on Pseudo-nitzschia bloom dynamics in the Gulf of Maine, J. Mar. Sys.,230:103737, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2022.103737
2021
Bo, T, DK Ralston, WM Kranenburg, WR Geyer, P Traykovski, 2021. High and variable drag in a sinuous estuary with intermittent stratification, JGR-Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017327.
Clark S, K Hubbard, DJ McGillicuddy, Jr., DK Ralston, S Shankar, 2021. Investigating Pseudo-nitzschia australis introduction to the Gulf of Maine with observations and models, Continental Shelf Res., 228:104493, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2021.104493.
Yellen, B, JD Woodruff, C Ladlow, DK Ralston, S Fernald, and W Lau, 2021. Rapid Tidal Marsh Development in Anthropogenic Backwaters., Earth Surf. Proc. Landforms, 46(3): 554-572, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5045
Eidam, EF, DA Sutherland, DK Ralston, T Conroy, B Dye, 2021. Shifting sediment dynamics in the Coos Bay Estuary in response to 150 years of modification, J. Geophys. Res., 126(1): e2020JC016771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016771.
Ralston, DK, B Yellen, and JD Woodruff. 2021. Watershed sediment supply and potential impacts of dam removals for an estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00873-3.
2020
Bo, T, DK Ralston, Flow Separation and Increased Drag Coefficient in Estuarine Channels with Curvature, 2020, JGR-Oceans, 125(10): e2020JC016267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016267
Warner, J, WR Geyer, DK Ralston, T Kalra, 2020. Using tracer variance decay to quantify variability of salinity mixing in the Hudson River Estuary, JGR-Oceans, 125(12): e2020JC016096, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016096 .
Geyer, WR, J-L Chen, DK Ralston, 2020. Mechanisms of exchange flow in an estuary with a narrow, deep channel and wide, shallow shoals, JGR-Oceans, 125, e2020JC016092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016092.
Chant, RJ, DK Ralston, NK Ganju, C Pianca, AE Simonson, and RA Cartwright, 2020. Sediment budget estimates for a highly impacted embayment with extensive wetland loss, Estuaries and Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00784-3
Eidam, EF, DA Sutherland, D.K. Ralston, B Dye, T Conroy, J Schmitt, P Ruggiero, J Wood, 2020. Impacts of 150 years of shoreline and bathymetric change in the Coos Estuary, Oregon, USA, Estuaries and Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00732-1.
Ralston, DK, B Yellen, JD Woodruff, S Fernald, 2020. Turbidity hysteresis in an estuary and tidal river following an extreme discharge event, Geophys. Res. Letters, 46, e2020GL088005, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088005
Hoagland, P, A Beet, DK Ralston, GR Parsons, YA Shirazi, and EW Carr, 2020. Salinity Intrusion in a Modified River-Estuary System: A Framework for Integrated Source-to-Sea Management, Frontiers in Marine Science, 7:425, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00425
Conroy, T, DA Sutherland, DK Ralston, 2020. Estuarine exchange flow variability in a seasonal, segmented estuary, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 50: 595-613, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0108.1
Ralston, DK and SK Moore, 2020. Modeling harmful algal blooms in a changing climate, Harmful Algae, 91:101729, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2019.101729
2019
Fringer, O, C Dawson, R He, DK Ralston, Y Zhang, 2019. The future of coastal and estuarine modeling: Findings from a workshop, Ocean Modelling, 143:101458, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.101458
Clark S, K Hubbard, DM Anderson, DJ McGillicuddy, Jr., DK Ralston, D Townsend, 2019. Pseudo-nitzschia Bloom Dynamics in the Gulf of Maine: 2012-2016, Harmful Algae, 88, 101656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2019.101656
Ralston, DK and WR Geyer, 2019. Response to channel deepening of the salinity intrusion, estuarine circulation, and stratification in an urbanized estuary, J. Geophys. Res., 124 (7): 4784-4802, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015006
Kranenburg WM, WR Geyer, AMP Garcia, and DK Ralston, 2019. Reversed lateral circulation in a sharp estuarine bend with weak stratification, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 49, 1619–1637, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0175.1
Wang, A, DK Ralston, N Bi, Z Cheng, X Wu, H Wang, 2019. Seasonal variation in sediment transport and deposition associated with an Omega-shaped clinoform in the Yellow Sea, Continental Shelf Res., 179, 37-51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2019.04.009
Shirazi Y, EW Carr, GR Parsons, P Hoagland, DK Ralston, J-L Chen, 2019. Increased operational costs of electricity generation in the Delaware River and Estuary from salinity increases due to sea-level rise and a deepened channel. J. Environ. Manag. 244:228-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.04.056
Pareja-Roman, LF, RJ Chant, DK Ralston, 2019. Wind generated waves and their role in the momentum budget and subtidal exchange of a coastal embayment, JGR-Oceans, 124, 1005-1028, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014585.
Ralston, DK, S Talke, WR Geyer, H Al’Zubadaei, and CK Sommerfield, 2019. Bigger tides, less flooding: Effects of dredging on barotropic dynamics in a highly modified estuary, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2018JC014313.
Chen, J-L, DK Ralston, WR Geyer, CK Sommerfield, and RJ Chant., 2019. Wave generation, dissipation, and disequilibrium in an embayment with complex bathymetry, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2018JC014381.
2018
Burchard, H, Schuttelaars, HM, & Ralston, DK, 2018. Sediment trapping in estuaries. Annual Review of Marine Science, 10, 371-395.
Geyer WR and DK Ralston, 2018. A mobile pool of contaminated sediment in the Penobscot Estuary, Maine, USA, Sci Total Environ. 612: 694-707. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.195.
2017
Ralston, DK, WR Geyer, 2017. Sediment transport time scales and trapping efficiency in a tidal river. J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surface, 122, 2042–2063. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JF004337
Brosnahan, ML, DK Ralston, AD Fischer, AR Solow, DM Anderson, 2017. Bloom termination of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella: Vertical migration behavior, sediment infiltration, and benthic cyst yield. Limnol. Oceanogr., 62: 2829–2849. doi:10.1002/lno.10664
Geyer, WR, DK Ralston, RC Holleman, 2017. Hydraulics and mixing in a laterally divergent channel of a highly stratified estuary. J. Geophys.Res. Oceans, 122, 4743–4760, doi:10.1002/2016JC012455.
Yellen, B, JD Woodruff, DK Ralston, DG MacDonald, DS Jones, 2017. Salt wedge dynamics lead to enhanced sediment trapping within side-embayments in high-energy estuaries. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JC012595.
Ralston, DK, GC Cowles, WR Geyer, RC Holleman, 2017. Turbulent and numerical mixing in a salt wedge estuary: dependence on grid resolution, bottom roughness, and turbulence closure. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JC011738.
Rodenberg, LA and DK Ralston, 2017. Historical sources of polychlorinated biphenyls to the sediment of the New York/New Jersey Harbor. Chemosphere, 169: 450–459 doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.11.096.
2016
Holleman, RC, WR Geyer, DK Ralston, 2016. Stratified turbulence and mixing efficiency in a salt wedge estuary. J. Phys. Oceaongr., 46(6): 1769-1783, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-15-0193.1.
Pineda, J, W Cho, V Starczak, AF Govindarajan, HM Guzman, Y Girdhar, RC Holleman, J Churchill, H Singh, DK Ralston, 2016. A crab swarm at an ecological hotspot: patchiness and population density from AUV observations at a coastal, tropical seamount. PeerJ, 4:e1770 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1770. PMCID: PMC4841253.
Ganju, NK, MJ Brush, B Rashleigh, AL Aretxabaleta, P del Barrio, M Forsyth, JS Grear, LA Harris, SJ Lake, G McCardell, J O’Donnell, DK Ralston, RP Signell, JM Testa, and JMP Vaudrey, 2016. Progress and challenges in coupled hydrodynamic-ecological estuarine modeling. Estuaries and Coasts, 39(2):311-332, doi:10.1007/s12237-015-0011-y. PMCID: PMC5053394.
2015
Ralston, DK, ML Brosnahan, SE Fox, KD Lee, and DM Anderson, 2015. Temperature and residence time controls on an estuarine harmful algal bloom: Modeling hydrodynamics and Alexandrium fundyense in Nauset estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, doi:10.1007/s12237-015-9949-z.
Brosnahan, ML, L Velo-Suarez, DK Ralston, SE Fox, TR Sehein, A Shalapyonok, HM Sosik, RJ Olson, and DM Anderson, 2015. Rapid growth and concerted sexual transitions by a bloom of the harmful dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense (Dinophyceae). Limnol. Oceangr. 60(6):2059-2078, doi: 10.1002/lno.10155. PMCID: PMC5014212.
Halliday, E, DK Ralston, and R Gast, 2015. Contribution of sand-associated enterococci to dry weather water quality. Environ. Sci. Tech., 49(1):451-458, doi:10.1021/es504908h.
Geyer, WR, DK Ralston, 2015. Estuarine frontogenesis. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45(2): 546-561, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-14-0082.1.
2014
Ralston, DK, BA Keafer, ML Brosnahan, and DM Anderson, 2014. Temperature dependence of an estuarine harmful algal bloom: Resolving interannual variability in bloom dynamics using a degree day approach. Limnol. Oceanogr., 59(4):1112-1126, doi:10.4319/lo.2014.59.4.1112.
2013
Ralston, DK, JC Warner, WR Geyer, and GR Wall, 2013. Sediment transport due to extreme events: the Hudson River estuary after Tropical Storms Irene and Lee. Geophys. Res. Let., 40(20):5451-5455, doi:10.1002/2013GL057906.
Ralston, DK, H Jiang, and JT Farrar, 2013. Waves in the Red Sea: response to monsoonal and mountain gap winds. Continental Shelf Res., 65:1-13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.05.017.
Ralston, DK, WR Geyer, PA Traykovski, and NJ Nidzieko, 2013. Effects of estuarine and fluvial processes on sediment transport over deltaic tidal flats, Contintental Shelf Res., 60, S40-S57, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2012.02.004.
Raubenheimer, B., DK Ralston, S Elgar, D Giffen, and R Signell, 2013.Winds on the Skagit tidal flats, Continental Shelf Research, 60, S13-S21, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2012.02.001.
2012
Ralston, DK, WR Geyer, and JC Warner, 2012. Bathymetric controls on sediment transport in the Hudson River estuary: lateral asymmetry and frontal trapping. J. Geophys Res., 117, C10013, doi:10.1029/2012JC008124.
Nidzieko, NJ, and DK Ralston, 2012. Tidal asymmetry and velocity skew over tidal flats and shallow channels within a macrotidal river delta. J. Geophys. Res., 117, C03001, 17 pp, doi:10.1029/2011JC007384.
Chen S-N, WR Geyer, DK Ralston, and JA Lerczak, 2012. Estuarine exchange flow quantified with isohaline coordinates: contrasting long and short estuaries, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 42, 748-763, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-086.1.
2011
Crespo, B.G., B.A. Keafer, D.K. Ralston, H. Lind, D. Farber, and D.M. Anderson, 2011. Dynamics of Alexandrium fundyense blooms and shellfish toxicity in the Nauset Marsh System of Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA). Harmful Algae,12: 26-38, doi: 10.1016/j.hal.2011.08.009.
Levinton, JS, M Doall, DK Ralston, A Starke, and B Allam, 2011. Climate change, precipitation and impacts on an estuarine refuge from disease. PLoS ONE, 6(4): e18849. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018849.
Geyer, WR and DK Ralston, 2011. The dynamics of strongly stratified estuaries. In: Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, E. Wolanski and DS McLusky, Eds., vol. 2:37-51. Waltham: Academic Press.
2010
Ralston, DK, WR Geyer, JA Lerczak, and M Scully, 2010. Turbulent mixing in a strongly forced salt wedge estuary. J. Geophys. Res., 115, C12024, doi:10.1029/2009JC006061.
Chen S-N, WR Geyer, CR Sherwood, and DK Ralston, 2010. Sediment transport and deposition on a river‐dominated tidal flat: An idealized model study. J. Geophys. Res.. 115, C10040, doi:10.1029/2010JC006248.
Ralston, DK, WR Geyer, and JA Lerczak, 2010. Structure, variability, and salt flux in a strongly forced salt wedge estuary. J. Geophys. Res., 115, C06005, doi:10.1029/2009JC005806.
2009
Ralston, DK and WR Geyer, 2009. Episodic and long-term sediment transport in the Hudson River estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, 32, 1130–1151, doi: 10.1007/s12237-009-9206-4.
Chen, S-N, LP Sanford, and DK Ralston, 2009. Lateral circulation and sediment transport driven by axial winds in an idealized, partially mixed estuary. J. Geophys. Res., 114, C12006, doi:10.1029/2008JC005014.
Lerczak, JA, WR Geyer, and DK Ralston, 2009. The temporal response of the length of a partially-stratified estuary to changes in river flow and tidal amplitude, J. Physical Oceanogr., 39(4):915-933, doi:10.1175/2008JPO3933.1.
2008
Geyer, WR, ME Scully, and DK Ralston, 2008. Quantifying vertical mixing in estuaries. Environ. Fluid Mech., 8, 495-509, doi:10.1007/s10652-008-9107-2.
Ralston, DK, WR Geyer, and JA Lerczak, 2008. Subtidal salinity and velocity in the Hudson River estuary: observations and modeling. J. Physical Oceanogr., 38(4), 753-770.
2007
Ralston, DK, DJ McGillicuddy, and DW Townsend, 2007. Asynchronous vertical migration and bimodal distribution of motile phytoplankton. J. Plankton Res., 29(9), 803-821, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbm061.
Ralston, DK and MT Stacey, 2007. Tidal and meteorological forcing of sediment transport in tributary mudflat channels. Continental Shelf Res., 27(10-11), 1510-1527, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2007.01.010.
2006
Ralston, DK and MT Stacey, 2006. Shear and turbulence production across subtidal channels. J. Marine Res., 64(1), 147-171, doi:10.1357/ 002224006776412359.
2005
Ralston, DK and MT Stacey, 2005. Longitudinal dispersion and lateral circulation in the intertidal zone. J. Geophys. Res., 110(C7), C07015, doi:10.1029/2005JC002888.
Ralston, DK and MT Stacey, 2005. Stratification and turbulence in subtidal channels through intertidal mudflats. J. Geophys. Res., 110(C8), C08009, doi:10.1029/2004JC002650.
Stacey, MT and DK Ralston, 2005. The scaling and structure of the estuarine bottom boundary layer. J. Physical Oceanogr., 35(1), 55-71.