Publications
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.
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
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.
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, 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ralston, DK and MT Stacey, 2006. Shear and turbulence production across subtidal channels. J. Marine Res., 64(1), 147-171, doi:10.1357/ 002224006776412359.
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.