Hawai 'i's Cesspool Problem: Review and Recommendations for Water Resources and Human Health

M Mezzacapo, MJ Donohue, C Smith… - … Water Research & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cesspools as onsite sewage disposal systems (OSDS) are widespread in the Hawaiian
Islands and of concern due to their lack of primary treatment and direct discharge of …

Impact of submarine groundwater discharge on marine water quality and reef biota of Maui

DW Amato, JM Bishop, CR Glenn, H Dulai, CM Smith - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Generally unseen and infrequently measured, submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) can
transport potentially large loads of nutrients and other land-based contaminants to coastal …

Eutrophication and the dietary promotion of sea turtle tumors

KS Van Houtan, CM Smith, ML Dailer, M Kawachi - PeerJ, 2014 - peerj.com
The tumor-forming disease fibropapillomatosis (FP) has afflicted sea turtle populations for
decades with no clear cause. A lineage of α-herpesviruses associated with these tumors has …

Algal bioassays detect modeled loading of wastewater-derived nitrogen in coastal waters of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

DW Amato, RB Whittier, H Dulai, CM Smith - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies indicate coastlines are at risk of wastewater contamination from injection
wells, cesspools, and septic systems. In this study, common marine algae were used to …

Macroalgae as a tool for assessing the ecological status of coral reefs under the Water Framework Directive: A case study on the reef flats of La Reunion (Indian …

M Zubia, M Depetris, O Flores, J Turquet, P Cuet - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
The monitoring of macroalgae is required by the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to
achieve good ecological status for coastal waters and specific questions arise for tropical …

Spatial and temporal variation of diverse inter‐tidal algal assemblages in Southwest O 'ahu

TE Cox, HL Spalding, MS Foster - Marine Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial and temporal variation in tropical inter‐tidal communities is poorly known, making
predictions about the effects of climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances …

Variation in rocky shore assemblages and abundances of key taxa along gradients of stormwater input

CM Kinsella, TP Crowe - Marine environmental research, 2015 - Elsevier
Stormwater brings freshwater and terrestrially derived contaminants into coastal systems
and is predicted to increase with climate change. This study aimed to characterise variation …

[PDF][PDF] Ecophysiological responses of macroalgae to submarine groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi

DW Amato - 2015 - danielwamato.com
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a ubiquitous process that delivers significant
amounts of nutrients and other solutes to coastal ecosystems worldwide. Although the …

Assessing anthropogenic impacts on reef communities: patterns, indicators and processes

AE Fowles - 2017 - figshare.utas.edu.au
Estuaries have been favoured for human settlement, and since then have slowly
deteriorated as a consequence of multiple and interacting anthropogenic impacts in their …

Trophic ecology of nearshore soft-sediment communities around O'ahu, Hawai'i

DT Lin - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Coastal and nearshore marine ecosystems are increasingly under threat from
anthropogenic stressors such as overfishing, nutrient enrichment, exotic species invasions …