Publications

• Garrison, V.H., Foreman, W.T., Genualdi, S., Griffin, D.W., Kellogg, C.A., Majewski, M.S., Mohammed, A., Ramsubhag, A., Shinn, E.A., Simonich, S.L., and Smith, G.W. 2006. Saharan dust – a carrier of persistent organic pollutants, metals and microbes to the Caribbean? International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 54 (Suppl. 3): 9-21. [available online (906 KB PDF)]
  
  
• Garrison, V.H., Orazio, C., Alvarez, D., Aeby, G., Carroll, J., and Taylor, M. 2005. Anthropogenic organic contaminants on coral reefs – Global atmospheric deposition or local sources? U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report #2005-1400, p. 24.
  
  
• Garrison, V.H., Shinn, E.A., Foreman, W.T., Griffin, D.W., Holmes, C.W., Kellogg, C.A., Majewski, M.S., Richardson, L.L., Ritchie, K.B., and Smith, G.W. 2003. African and Asian dust: From desert soils to coral reefs. BioScience 53 (5):469-480.
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., Garrison, V.H., Kellogg, C., and Shinn, E.A. 2001. African desert dust in the Caribbean atmosphere: Microbiology and public health. Aerobiologia 17: 203-213. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., Kellogg, C.A., Garrison, V.H., Lisle, J.T., Borden, T.C., and Shinn, E.A. 2003. Atmospheric microbiology in the northern Caribbean during African dust events. Aerobiologia 19: 143-157. [available online]
  
  
• Griffin, D.W., Kellogg, C.A., Peak, K.K., and Shinn, E.A. 2002. A rapid and efficient assay for extracting DNA from fungi. Letters in Applied Microbiology 34: 1-5. [available online]
  
  
• Holmes, C.W. and Miller, R. 2004. Atmospherically transported elements and deposition in the southeastern United States: Local or transoceanic? Applied Geochemistry 19 (2004): 1189-1200. [available online]
  
  
• Kellogg, C.A. and Griffin, D.W. 2006. Aerobiology and the global transport of desert dust. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21 (11): 638-644. [available online]
  
  
• Kellogg, C.A., Griffin, D.W., Garrison, V.H., Peak, K.K., Royall, N., Smith, R.R., and Shinn, E.A. 2004. Characterization of aerosolized bacteria and fungi from desert dust events in Mali, West Africa. Aerobiologia 20:99-110. [available online]
  
  
• Nipper, M., Carr, R.S., Biedenbach, J.M., and Garrison, V.H. 2008. Toxicity of African dust and related components to marine organisms. Chapter 8, pp. 279-295, Marine Pollution: New Research (T.N. Hofer, ed.) Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York.
  
  
• Shinn, E.A., Smith, G.W., Prospero, J.M., Betzer, P., Hayes, M.L., Garrison, V., and Barber, R.T. 2000. African dust and the demise of Caribbean coral reefs. Geophysical Research Letters 27:3029-3032. [available online]
  
  
• Weir-Brush, J.R., Garrison V.H., Smith, G.W., and Shinn, E.A. 2004. The relationship between Gorgonian coral (Cnidaria: Gorgonacea) diseases and African dust storms. Aerobiologia 20: 119-126 [available online].