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Scholarly Output

  1. Powell JWB, Duffield DA, Fire SE, Hart LB,  Kaufman JJ, McFee WE, Smith CR, Wells RS (submitted). Clinical assessment of bone density in live, free-ranging common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, using quantitative ultrasound.  Aquatic Mammals.
  2. Fire SE, Miller GA, Sabater E, Wells RS (2021). Utility of red tide (Karenia brevis) monitoring data as a predictive tool to estimate brevetoxin accumulation in live, free-ranging marine mammals. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:611310.
  3. Danil K, Berman M, Frame E, Preti A, Fire SE, Leighfield T, Caretta J, Carter ML, Lefebvre K (2021). Marine algal toxins and their vectors in southern California cetaceans. Harmful Algae 103:102000.
  4. Ingels J,  Aronson RB, Smith CR, Baco A, Bik HM, Blake JA, Brandt A, Cape M, Demaster D, Dolan E, Domack E, Fire SE, Geisz H, Gigliotti M, Griffiths H, Halanych KM, Havermans C, Huettmann F, Ishman S, Kranz S, Leventer A,  Mahon AR, Mcclintock J, Mccormick ML, Mitchell BG, Murray A, Peck L, Rogers A, Shoplock B, Smith KE, Steffel B, Stukel MR, Sweetman A, Taylor M, Thurber AR, Truffer M, Van De Putte A, Vanreusel A, Zamora-Duran MA (2021). Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice-shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research. WIREs Climate Change 12:e682.
  5. Fire SE, Bogomolni A, DiGiovanni R, Early G, Leighfield TA, Matassa K, Miller GA, Moore K, Moore M, Niemeyer M, Pugliares K, Wang Z, Wenzel FW (2020). An assessment of temporal, spatial and taxonomic trends in harmful algal toxin exposure in stranded marine mammals from the U.S. New England coast. PLOS ONE 16(1): e0243570.
  6. Fire SE, Leighfield TA, Miller GA, Piwetz S, Sabater E, Whitehead H (2020). Association between red tide exposure and detection of corresponding neurotoxins in bottlenose dolphins from Texas waters during 2007-2017.  Marine Environmental Research 162:105191.
  7. Fire SE, Miller GA, Wells RS (2020).  Explosive exhalations by common bottlenose dolphins during Karenia brevis red tides.  Heliyon 6(3):e03525.
  8. Fire SE, Browning JA, Noke-Durden W, Stolen MK (2020). Comparison of during-bloom and inter-bloom brevetoxin and saxitoxin concentrations in Indian River Lagoon bottlenose dolphins, 2002-2011. Aquatic Toxicology 105371.
  9. Broadwater MH, Van Dolah FM, Fire SE (2018). Vulnerabilities of marine mammals to harmful algal blooms. In: Shumway SE, Burkholder JM, and Morton SL (eds.), Harmful Algal Blooms: A Compendium Desk Reference. pp. 191-222. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  10. Fire SE, Adkesson MJ, Wang Z, Jankowski G, Cárdenas-Alayza S, Broadwater M (2016).  Peruvian fur seals (Arctocephalus australis ssp.) and South American sea lions (Otaria byronia) in Peru are exposed to the harmful algal toxins domoic acid and okadaic acid. Marine Mammal Science 33(2):630–644.
  11. Colegrove KM, Venn-Watson S, Litz J, Kinsel MJ, Terio KA, Fougeres E, Ewing R, Pabst DA, McLellan WA, Raverty S, Saliki J, Fire SE, Rappucci G, Bowen-Stevens S, Noble L, Costidis A, Barbieri M, Field C, Smith S, Carmichael RH, Chevis C, Hatchett W, Shannon D, Tumlin M, Lovewell G, McFee W, Rowles TK (2016). Fetal distress and in utero pneumonia in perinatal dolphins during the Northern Gulf of Mexico unusual mortality event. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 119(1):1-16.
  12. Bogomolni AL, Bass AL, Fire SE, Jasperse L, Levin M, Nielsen O, Waring G, and De Guise S (2016). Saxitoxin increases phocine distemper virus replication upon in-vitro infection in harbor seal immune cells. Harmful Algae 51:89–96.
  13. Wilson C, Sastre AV, Hoffmeyer M, Rowntree VJ, Fire SE, Santinelli NH, Díaz-Ovejero S, D’Agostino V, Marón CF, Doucette GJ, Broadwater MH, Wang Z, Montoya N, Seger J, Adler FR, Sironi M, Uhart MM (2016). Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) calf mortality at Península Valdés, Argentina: are harmful algal blooms to blame? Marine Mammal Science 32(2):423-451.  
  14. Venn-Watson S, Colegrove KM, Litz J, Kinsel M, Fougeres E, Mase B, Terio K, Saliki J, Fire SE, Stratton E, Carmichael R, Solangi M, Smith S, Tumlin M, Ewing R, Fauquier D, Lovewell G, Rotstein D,  McFee W, Whitehead H, Rowles T (2015).  Adrenal gland and lung lesions in Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) found dead following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126538.
  15. Fire SE, Flewelling L, Stolen M, Noke Durden W, de Wit M, Spellman A, Wang Z (2015).  A brevetoxin-associated mass mortality event of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) along the east coast of Florida. Marine Ecology Progress Series 526:241-251.
  16. Litz JA, Baran MA, Bowen-Stevens SR, Carmichael RH, Colegrove KM, Garrison LP, Fire SE, Fougeres EM, Hardy R, Holmes S, Jones W, Mase-Guthrie BE, Odell DK, Rosel PE, Saliki JT, Shannon DK, Shippee SF, Smith SM, Stratton EM, Tumlin MC, Whitehead HR, Worthy GAJ, Rowles TK (2014).  Review of historical unusual mortality events (UMEs) in the Gulf of Mexico (1990-2009): Providing context for the multi-year northern Gulf of Mexico cetacean UME declared in 2010.  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 112(2):161-175.
  17. Hattenrath-Lehmann TK, Marcoval MA, Berry DL, Fire SE, Wang Z, Morton SL, Gobler CJ (2013). The emergence of Dinophysis acuminata blooms and DSP toxins in shellfish in New York waters. Harmful Algae 26:33–44.
  18. International Atomic Energy Agency (2013).  Detection of harmful algal toxins using the radioligand receptor binding assay: A manual of methods.  Bottein Dechraoui M-Y, Cruz L, Darius HT, Descroix-Comanducci F, Doucette GJ, Fire SE, Gerardo-Abaya J, Leighfield TA, Mikulski TM, Sombrito E, Van Dolah FM (eds.). IAEA Technical Document IAEA-TECDOC-1729, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
  19. Wilkin SM, Cordaro J, Gulland FMD, Wheeler E, Dunkin R, Sigler T, Casper D, Berman M, Flannery M, Fire SE, Wang Z, Colegrove K, Baker J (2012). An unusual mortality event of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) off central California: Increase in blunt trauma rather than an epizootic. Aquatic Mammals 38: 301-310.
  20. Twiner MJ, Flewelling LJ, Fire SE, Bowen-Stevens SR, Gaydos JK, Johnson CK, Landsberg JH, Leighfield TA, Mase-Guthrie B, Schwacke L, Van Dolah FM, Wang Z, Rowles TK (2012). Comparative analysis of three brevetoxin-associated bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) mortality events in the Florida Panhandle region (USA). PLoS ONE 7:e42974.
  21. Fire SE, Pruden J, Couture D, Wang Z, Dechraoui Bottein MY, Haynes BL, Knott T, Bouchard D, Lichtenwalner A, Wippelhauser G (2012). Saxitoxin exposure in endangered fish stocks: association of a shortnose sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum mortality event with a harmful algal bloom in Maine. Marine Ecology Progress Series 460:145-153.
  22. Fire SE and Van Dolah FM (2012). Marine Biotoxins: Emergence of harmful algal blooms as health threats to marine wildlife. In: Aguirre AA, Ostfeld RS and Daszak P (eds.), New Directions in Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health, Oxford University Press, New York, p. 374-389.
  23. Van Dolah FM, Fire SE, Leighfield TA, Doucette GJ (2012). Determination of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in shellfish by receptor binding assay: a collaborative study. Journal of AOAC International 95(3):795-812.
  24. Shuler AL, Paternoster J, Brim M, Nowocin K, Tisdale T, Neller K, Cahill JA, Leighfield T, Fire SE, Wang Z, Morton S (2012). Spatial and temporal trends of the toxic diatom Pseudo-nitzschia in the southeastern United States. Harmful Algae 17:6-13.
  25. Wang Z, Maucher-Fuquay J, Fire SE, Mikulski CM, Haynes B, Doucette GJ, Ramsdell JS (2012). Optimization of solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the determination of domoic acid in seawater, phytoplankton, and mammalian fluids and tissues. Analytica Chimica Acta 715:71-79.
  26. Twiner M, Fire SE, Schwacke L, Davidson L, Wang Z, Morton S, Roth S, Balmer B, Rowles T, Wells R (2012). Concurrent exposure of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to multiple algal toxins in Sarasota Bay, Florida, USA. PLoS ONE 6(3):e17394.
  27. Fire SE, Wang Z, Byrd M, Whitehead HR, Paternoster J, Morton SL (2011). Co-occurrence of multiple classes of harmful algal toxins in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranding during an unusual mortality event in Texas, USA. Harmful Algae 10:330-336. 
  28. Fire SE, Wang Z, Berman M, Langlois GW, Morton SL, Sekula-Wood E, Benitez-Nelson CR (2010). Trophic transfer of the harmful algal toxin domoic acid as a cause of death in a minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) stranding in southern California. Aquatic Mammals 36(4):342-350.
  29. Del Rio R, Bargu S, Baltz D, Fire SE, Peterson G, Wang Z (2010). Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus): A potential vector of domoic acid in coastal Louisiana food webs. Harmful Algae 10(1):19-29.
  30. Fire SE, Wang Z, Leighfield TA, Morton SL, McFee WE, McLellan WA, Litaker RW, Tester PA, Hohn AA, Lovewell G, Harms C, Rotstein DS, Barco SG, Costidis A, Sheppard B, Bossart GD, Stolen M, Durden WN, Van Dolah FM (2009). Domoic acid exposure in pygmy and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia spp.) from southeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S. waters. Harmful Algae 8:658-664.
  31. Fire SE, Flewelling LJ, Wang Z, Naar J, Henry MS, Pierce RH, Wells RS (2008). Florida red tide and brevetoxins: Association and exposure in live resident bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. Marine Mammal Science 24(4):831-844.
  32. Fire SE, Flewelling LJ, Naar J, Twiner MJ, Henry MS, Pierce RH, Gannon DP, Wang Z, Davidson L, Wells RS (2008). Prevalence of brevetoxins in prey fish of bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Marine Ecology Progress Series 368:283-294.
  33. Fire SE, Fauquier D, Flewelling LJ, Henry MS, Naar J, Pierce RH, Wells RS (2007). Brevetoxin exposure in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) associated with Karenia brevis blooms in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Marine Biology 152(4):827-834.
  34. Fire SE and Silver MW (2005). Domoic acid in the Santa Cruz wharf fishery. California Fish and Game  91(3):179-192.