Selected Publications:

Moran, M. A., W. M. Sheldon, Jr., and J. E. Sheldon. 1999. Biodegradation of riverine dissolved organic carbon in five estuaries of the southeastern United States. Estuaries 22: 55-64.

Moran, M. A., W. M. Sheldon, Jr. and R. G. Zepp.  2000.  Carbon loss and optical property changes during long-term photochemical and biological degradation of estuarine dissolved organic matter.  Limnology & Oceanography 45(6):1254-1264.

Pomeroy, L. R., J. E. Sheldon, W. M. Sheldon, Jr., J. O. Blanton, J. Amft and F. Peters.  2000.  Seasonal changes in microbial processes in estuarine and Continental Shelf waters of the southeastern U.S.A.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 51:415-428.

Miller, W. L., M. A. Moran, W. M. Sheldon, R. G. Zepp and S. Opsahl. 2002. Determination of apparent quantum yield spectra for the formation of biologically labile photoproducts.  Limnology & Oceanography, 47(2):343-352.

Sheldon, W. M., M. A. Moran and J. T. Hollibaugh. 2002. Efforts to link ecological metadata with bacterial gene sequences at the Sapelo Island Microbial Observatory. Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics -- Information Systems Development II. VII:402-407.

Kowalsczuk, P., Cooper, W.J., Whitehead, R.F., Durako, M.J. and Sheldon, W.M. 2003. Characterization of CDOM in an organic rich river and surrounding coastal ocean in the South Atlantic Bight. Aquatic Sciences, 65(2003): 384-401.

Zepp, R. G., Sheldon, W. M. and Moran, M. A. 2004. Dissolved organic fluorophores in southeastern U.S. coastal waters: Correction method for eliminating Rayleigh and Raman scattering peaks in excitation-emission matrices. CDOM Workshop Special Issue, Marine Chemistry, 89:15-36.

Moran, M. A., A. Buchan, J. M. Gonzalez, J. F. Heidelberg, W. B. Whitman, R. P. Kiene, J. R. Henriksen, G. M. King, R. Belas, C. Fuqua, L. Brinkac, M. Lewis, S. Johri, B. Weaver, G. Pai, J. A. Eisen, E. Rahe, W. M. Sheldon, W. Ye, T. R. Miller, J. Carlton, D. A. Rasko, I. T. Paulsen, Q. Ren, S. C. Daugherty, R. T. Deboy, R. J. Dodson, A. S. Durkin, R. Madupu, W. C. Nelson, S. A. Sullivan, M. J. Rosovitz, D. H. Haft, J. Selengut, N. Ward. 2004. Genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi reveals adaptations to the marine environment. Nature. 432(7019):910-3.

Henshaw, D.L., Sheldon, W.M., Remillard, S.M. and Kotwica, K. 2006. ClimDB/HydroDB: A web harvester and data warehouse approach to building a cross-site climate and hydrology database. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (ICHE 2006). Michael Piasecki and College of Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA.