Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Natural Resources and the Environment
Associate Director, N.H. Sea Grant
Phone: (603) 862-5124
Office: Natural Resources & the Environment, Jackson Lab, Durham, NH 03824

My main focuses of research are: 1) ribotyping Escherichia coli to identify sources of fecal contamination in surface waters; 2) microbial cycling of mercury in estuarine and marine environments; 3) monitoring for toxic chemicals in the marine environment; 4) stormwater-related pollution of estuarine waters. I have many different projects that make up my research program, the majority of which are related to these 4 topic areas.

Courses Taught

  • BMS 799H: Senior Honors Thesis

Education

  • Ph.D., Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin
  • M.S., Soil Science, University of Wisconsin
  • B.S., Soil Science, University of Maine

Selected Publications

  • Mooshammer, M., Wanek, W., Jones, S. H., Richter, A., & Wagner, M. (2021). Cyanate is a low abundance but actively cycled nitrogen compound in soil. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, 2(1). doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00235-2

  • Hartwick, M. A., Berenson, A., Whistler, C. A., Naumova, E. N., & Jones, S. H. (2021). The Seasonal Microbial Ecology of Plankton and Plankton-Associated Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Northeast United States. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 87(15). doi:10.1128/AEM.02973-20

  • Mousavi, S., Ghayoomi, M., & Jones, S. H. (2021). Compositional and geoenvironmental factors in microbially induced partial saturation. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS, 8(4), 282-294. doi:10.1680/jenge.18.00087

  • Moore, B. M., Chadhain, S. M. N., Miller, J. L., Jones, S. H., & Launen, L. A. (2020). Metagenome Sequences from Tidal Marsh and Marine Sediment from the Great Bay Estuary of New Hampshire. MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS, 9(10). doi:10.1128/MRA.00038-20

  • Hartwick, M. A., Urquhart, E. A., Whistler, C. A., Cooper, V. S., Naumova, E. N., & Jones, S. H. (2019). Forecasting Seasonal Vibrio parahaemolyticus Concentrations in New England Shellfish. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 16(22). doi:10.3390/ijerph16224341

  • Mahoney, J. C., Gerding, M. J., Jones, S. H., & Whistler, C. A. (2010). Comparison of the Pathogenic Potentials of Environmental and Clinical Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains Indicates a Role for Temperature Regulation in Virulence. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 76(22), 7459-7465. doi:10.1128/AEM.01450-10

  • Eddy, S. D., & Jones, S. H. (2002). Microbiology of summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus fingerling production at a marine fish hatchery. AQUACULTURE, 211(1-4), 9-28. doi:10.1016/S0044-8486(01)00882-1

  • Chase, M. E., Jones, S. H., Hennigar, P., Sowles, J., Harding, G. C. H., Freeman, K., . . . Taylor, D. (2001). Gulfwatch: Monitoring spatial and temporal patterns of trace metal and organic contaminants in the Gulf of Maine (1991-1997) with the blue mussel, Mytilis edulis L. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN, 42(6), 491-505. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

  • Weber, J. H., Evans, R., Jones, S. H., & Hines, M. E. (1998). Conversion of mercury(II) into mercury(O), monomethylmercury cation, and dimethylmercury in saltmarsh sediment slurries. CHEMOSPHERE, 36(7), 1669-1687. doi:10.1016/S0045-6535(97)10042-X

  • ONEILL, K. R., JONES, S. H., & GRIMES, D. J. (1992). SEASONAL INCIDENCE OF VIBRIO-VULNIFICUS IN THE GREAT BAY ESTUARY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND MAINE. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 58(10), 3257-3262. doi:10.1128/AEM.58.10.3257-3262.1992

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