Manuscripts In Prep

  1. Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., Darnell, K., & Dunton, K. H. (2026). Drivers and Trends of Sedimentary Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks from Seagrass Meadows in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. In Estuaries and Coasts.
  2. Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., Bijak, A., Draugh, A., & Patrick, C. J. (2026). Seagrass meadow loss reduces their role as long-term blue nutrient reservoirs. In Limnology Oceanography Letters.
  3. Capistrant-Fossa, K., Gilmore, J., Wilcox, D., Edwards, M., Holbert, F., Solis, A., Hall, A., & Patrick, C. (2026). Escaping the vertical squeeze: Water quality management buffers foundation species against warming waters.
  4. Marconi, C. M., Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., & O’Connell, J. (2025). An open source tool for rapid coastal habitat change detection through machine learning and remotely sensed data. In Estuaries and Coasts.
  5. Barst, B. D., Jenckes, J., Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., Iken, K., Porter, D., Trifari, M., Ussery, E. J., & Nielsen, K. (2025). Determinants of Mercury Accumulation in Pacific blue mussels (Mytilus trossulus) Along a Gradient of Glacial Coverage and Implications for Ecological & Human Health. In Chemosphere.
  6. Ye, N., Wang, Y., Sun, K., Ruan, S., Capistrant-Fossa, K., Fan, X., Wang, L., Zhang, X., Xu, D., Zhang, P., & Wang, W. (2025). Underestimated vulnerability of Zostera marina to accelerating sea-level rise.

Journal Articles

  1. Ballard, M. S., Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., Lee, K. M., McNeese, A. R., Cushing, C. W., Taylor, R. T., Jerome, T. S., Dunton, K. H., & Wilson, P. S. (2026). Acoustic monitoring of two seagrass meadows reveals differences in oxygen ebullition and biomass. Estuaries and Coasts.
  2. Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., Ballard, M. S., Lee, K., McNeese, A. R., Cushing, C., Jerome, T., Wilson, P., & Dunton, K. H. (2025). Acoustic Monitoring of Oxygen Ebullition Reveals Hidden Productivity in a Seemingly Heterotrophic Seagrass Meadow. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere-Research.
  3. Jerome, T. S., Ballard, M. S., Lee, K. M., Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., McNeese, A. R., Cushing, C. W., Taylor, R. T., Dunton, K. H., & Wilson, P. S. (2025). Bayesian inference for monitoring of above-ground biomass in a seagrass meadow over two annual cycles. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
  4. Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., & Dunton, K. H. (2024). Rapid sea level rise causes loss of seagrass meadows. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 87.
  5. Ballard, M. S., Lee, K., Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., McNeese, A. R., Cushing, C., Jerome, T., Wilson, P., & Dunton, K. H. (2024). A multi-year study of acoustic propagation and ambient sound in a Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadow in a shallow sub-tropical lagoon. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(5).
  6. Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., Morrison, H. G., Engelen, A. H., Quigley, C. T. C., Morozov, A., Serrão, E. A., Brodie, J., Gachon, C. M. M., Badis, Y., Johnson, L. E., Hoarau, G., Abreu, M. H., Tester, P. A., Stearns, L. A., & Brawley, S. H. (2021). The microbiome of the habitat-forming brown alga Fucus vesiculosus (Phaeophyceae) has similar cross-atlantic structure that reflects past and present drivers. Journal of Phycology, 57(6), 1681–1689. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpy.13194
  7. Quigley, C. T. C., Capistrant-Fossa, K. A., Morrison, H. G., Johnson, L. E., Morozov, A., Hertzberg, V. S., & Brawley, S. H. (2020). Bacterial communities show algal host (Fucus spp.)/zone differentiation across the stress gradient of the intertidal zone. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. Note: shared first authorship. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.563118/full
  8. Bricknell, I. R., Birkel, S. D., Brawley, S. H., Van Kirk, T., Hamlin, H., Capistrant-Fossa, K., Huguenard, K., Van Walsum, G. P., Liu, Z. L., Zhu, L. H., Grebe, G., Taccardi, E., Miller, M., Preziosi, B. M., Duffy, K., Byron, C. J., Quigley, C. T. C., Bowden, T. J., Brady, D., … Moeykens, S. (2020). Resilience of cold water aquaculture: A review of likely scenarios as climate changes in the Gulf of Maine. Reviews in Aquaculture.
  9. Capistrant-Fossa, K., & Brawley, S. H. (2019). Unexpected reproductive traits of Grateloupia turuturu revealed by its resistance to bleach-based biosecurity protocols. Botanica Marina, 62(2).

Conference Proceedings

  1. Jerome, T., Ballard, M., Lee, K., Cushing, C., Capistrant-Fossa, K., McNeese, A., Wilson, P., & Dunton, K. (2024). Effective medium modeling of acoustic propagation in a seagrass meadow for an ecosystem monitoring application. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 51.