PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2025
Hart, L.N., Zepernick, B.Z., Natwora, K., Brown, K., Obuya, J.A., Lomeo, D., Barnard, M.A., Okech, E.O., 2022-2023 NSF-IRES Lake Victoria Research Consortium, Kiledal, E.A., Den Uyl, P.A., Olokotum, M., Wilhelm, S.W., McKay, R.M., Drouillard, K.G., Sherman, D.H., Sitoki, L., Achiya, J., Getabu, A., Otiso, K.M., Bullerjahn, G.S., and Dick, G.J. Metagenomics Reveals Temporal Variation in Cyanobacterial Composition, Function, and Biosynthetic Potential in the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2025, 91(2), e01507-24. DOI: 10.1128/aem.01507-24. [Selected as Spotlight Selection]
2024
Paerl, H.W., Chaffin, J.D., Cheshire, J.H., Plaas, H.E., Barnard, M.A., Goerlitz, L.B., Braddy, J.S., Sabo, A., Nelson, L.M., and Yue, L. Dual phosphorus and nitrogen nutrient reduction will be more effective than a phosphorus-only reduction in mitigating diatom and cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie, USA-Canada. Limnology and Oceanography. 2024. 69 (12), 2913-2928. DOI: 10.1002/lno.12719.
Zepernick, B.N., Hart, L.N., Natwora, K.E., Brown, K.M., Obuya, J.A., Olokotum, M., Owino, E., Keating, N.G., Lomeo, D., NSF-IRES 2022-2023 Lake Victoria Research Consortium [33 researchers including Barnard, M.A.], Sheik, C.S., Sherman, D.H., Dick, G.J., Wilhelm, S.W., Otiso, K.M., McKay, R.M., Bullerjahn, G.S. Metagenomic Sequencing of Cyanobacterial-Dominated Lake Victoria - an African Great Lake. Microbial Resource Announcements. 2024. 13 (12), e00798-24. DOI: 10.1128/mra.00798-24.
Müller, M., D’Andrilli, J., Silverman, V., Bier, R.L., Barnard, M.A., Lee, M.C.M., Richard, F., Tanentzap, A.J., Wang, J., de Melo, M., and Lu, Y. 2024. "Machine-based learning approach to examine ecological processes influencing the diversity of riverine dissolved organic matter composition," Frontiers in Water. 6: 1379284. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1379284.
2023
Powers, S.M., Barnard, M.A., Macleod, M.S., Miller, L., and Wagner, N.D. 2023. "Spatially intensive patterns of water clarity in reservoirs determined rapidly with sensor-equipped boats and satellites," Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 128(10): e2023JG007650. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007650.
Dunn, P.O., Ahmed, I, Armstrong, E., Barlow, N., Barnard, M.A., Belisle, M., Benson, T.J., Berzins, L.L., Boynton, C.K., Brown, T.A., Cady, M., Cameron, K., Chen, X., Clark, R.G., Clotfelter, E.D., Cromwell, K., Dawson, R.D., Denton, E., Forbes, A., Fowler, K., Fraser, K.C., Gandhi, K., Garant, D., Hiebert, M., Houchen, C., Houtz, J., Imlay, T.L., Inouye, B.D., Inouye, D.W., Jackson, M., Jacobson, A.P., Jayd, K., Juteau, C., Kautz, A., Killian, C., Kinnear, E., Komatsu, K.J., Larsen, K., Laughlin, A., Levesque-Beaudin, V., Leys, R., Long, E., Lougheed, S.C., Mackenzie, S., Marangelo, J., Miller, C., Molano-Flores, B., Morrissey, C.A., Nicholls, E., Orlofske, J.M., Pearse, I.S., Pelletier, F., Pitt, A., Poston, J., Racke, D.M., Randall, J.A., Richardson, M.L., Rooney, O., Ruegg, A.R., Rush, S., Ryan, S., Sadowski, M., Schoepf, I., Schulz, L., Shea, B., Sheehan, T.N., Siefferman, L., Sikes, D., Stanback, M., Styrsky. J.D., Taff, C.C., Uehling, J.J., Uvino, K., Wassmer, T., Weglarz, K., Weinberger, M., Wenzel, J., and Whittingham, L.A. 2023. "Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America," Ecology. 104(5): e4036. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4036.[Top Viewed Article in Ecology (2023)]
Stadler, M., Barnard, M.A., Bice, K., de Melo, M.L., Dwivedi, D., Freeman, E.C., Garayburu-Caruso, V.A., Linkhorst, A., Mateus-Barros, E., Shi, C., Tanentzap, A.J., and Miele, C. 2023. "Applying the core-satellite species concept: Characteristics of rare and common riverine dissolved organic matter," Frontiers in Water. 5: 1156042. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2023.1156042.
2022
Plaas, H., Paerl, R.W., Baumann, K., Karl, C., Popendorf, K.J., Barnard, M.A., Chang, N.Y., Curtis, N.P., Huang, H., Mathieson, O.L., Sanchez, J., Maizel, D.J., Bartenfelder, A.N., Braddy, J.S., Hall, N.S., Rossignol, K.L., Sloup, R., and Paerl, H.W. 2022. "Harmful Cyanobacterial Aerosolization Dynamics in the Airshed of a Eutrophic Estuary," Science of the Total Environment. 852: 158383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158383.
Borton, M.A., Collins, S.M., Graham, E.B., Garayburu-Caruso, V.A., Goldman, A.E., de Melo, M.L., Renteria, L., Stegen, J.C., and WHONDRS Crowdsourced Consortium [56 researchers including Barnard, M.A.]. 2022. "It takes a village: using a crowdsourced approach to investigate organic matter composition in global rivers through the lens of ecological theory," Frontiers in Water. 4: 870453. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.870453.
Barnard, M.A., Emani, S.R., Fortner, S.K., Haygood, L., Sun, Q., White-Newsome, J.L., and Zaitchik, B. 2022. "GeoHealth Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science," Earth and Space Science. 9(5): e2021EA002157. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002157. Full text: ResearchGate | Academia
Dwivedi, D., Santos, A.L.D., Barnard, M.A., Crimmins, T.M., Malhotra, A., Rod, K.A., Aho, K.S., Bell, S.M., Bomfim, B., Brearley, F.Q. and Cadillo-Quiroz, H., Chen, J., Gough, C.M., Graham, E.B., Hakkenberg, C.R., Haygood, L., Koren, G., Lilleskov, E., Meredith, L.K., Naeher, S., Nickerson, Z.L., Pourret, O., Song, H.-S., Stahl, M., Taş, N., Vargas, R., and Weintraub-Leff, S. 2022. "Biogeosciences Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science," Earth and Space Science. 9(3):e2021EA002119. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002119. Full text: ResearchGate | Academia
2021
Barnard, M.A., Chaffin, J.D., Plaas, H.E., Boyer, G.L., Wei, B., Wilhelm, S.W., Rossignol, K.L., Braddy, J.S., Bullerjahn, G.S., Bridgeman, T.B., Davis, T.W., Wei, J., Bu, M., Paerl, H.W. 2021. "Roles of Nutrient Limitation on Western Lake Erie CyanoHAB Toxin Production," Toxins. 13(1):47. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins13010047. [Selected as Editor’s Choice] Full text: ResearchGate | Academia
2020
Paerl, H.W., Hall, N.S., Hounshell, A.G, Rossignol, K.L., Barnard, M.A., Luettich, R.A. Rudolf, J.C., Osburn, C.L., Bales, J., and Harding, L.W. 2020. "Recent increases of rainfall and flooding from tropical cyclones (TCs) in North Carolina (USA): implications for organic matter and nutrient cycling in coastal watersheds," Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10533-020-00693-4. Reprinted in a special issue as Biogeochemistry (2023) 164: 257-276 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00770-2. Full text: ResearchGate | Academia
Paerl, H.W. and Barnard, M.A. 2020. Mitigating the global expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms: Moving targets in a human- and climatically-altered world,” Harmful Algae. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101845. Full text: ResearchGate | Academia
2017
Barnard, M.A., Porter, J.W., and Wilde, S.B. 2017. “Utilizing Spirogyra grevilleana as a Phytoremediatory Agent for Reduction of Limnetic Nutrients and Escherichia coli Concentrations,” American Journal of Plant Sciences, 8: 1148-1158. https://doi.org/10.4236/ajps.2017.85075. Full Text: ResearchGate | Academia
PATENTS
2022
Barnard, M.A. 2022. Algal System for Improving Water Quality. Canadian Patent 2,951,817. Issued July 19, 2022.
2018
Barnard, M.A. 2018. Algal System for Improving Water Quality. United States Patent 10,065,876. Issued September 4, 2018. Full Text: ResearchGate | Academia | Google Patents
BOOK CHAPTERS
2022
Barnard, M.A., Chaffin, J.D., Plaas, H.E., Boyer, G.L., Wei, B., Wilhelm, S.W., Rossignol, K.L., Braddy, J.S., Bullerjahn, G.S., Bridgeman, T.B., Davis, T.W., Wei, J., Bu, M., and Paerl, H.W. "Roles of Nutrient Limitation on Western Lake Erie CyanoHAB Toxin Production:" pp. 183-203. In: Kaloudis, T., Hiskia, A., Triantis, T.M. (Eds.). 2022. Cyanotoxins in Bloom: Ever-Increasing Occurrence and Global Distribution of Freshwater Cyanotoxins from Planktic and Benthic Cyanobacteria. MDPI Books; Basel, CH.; 1st ed. 386 pp. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-3921-8 (Article Reprint)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2022
Barnard, M.A., Plaas, H.E., Paerl, R.W., Karl, C.M., Holland, W.C., Hardison, D.R., Hall, N.S., Bartenfelder, A.N., Rossignol, K.L., Braddy, J.S., Sloup, R.S., and Paerl, H.W., Macronutrient and B vitamin dynamics of Chowan River (North Carolina, U.S.A.) CyanoHABs, In: Band-Schmidt, C.J. and Rodríguez-Gómez, C.F. (Eds.). 2022. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Harmful Algae, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico. International Society for the Study of Harmful Algal Blooms. 365 pp, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7034970.
REPOSITORY PAPERS
2016
Barnard, M.A. and Peissig, J.M. 2016. “Effects of Light Pollution on Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Nesting Behavior in Georgia and South Carolina,” University of Georgia Athenaeum Repository. Paper ID: 10724/35551. SeaTurtle.org Paper ID: 9775. Full Text: Academia | UGA Repository | SeaTurtle.org
2015
Barnard, M.A. 2015. “A Survey of the Tidal Cycle Influence on the Differential Phytoplankton Diversity of the Duplin River at Marsh Landing on Sapelo Island, Georgia,” University of Georgia Athenaeum Repository. Paper ID: 10724/35550. Full Text: Academia | UGA Repository
Barnard, M.A., Brock, H.K., Campbell, P., and Peissig, J.M. 2015. “Soil Manipulation by Leaf Cutter Ants at La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica,” University of Georgia Athenaeum Repository. Paper ID: 10724/35605. Full Text: Academia | UGA Repository
PUBLISHED PROTOCOLS
2023
Barnard, M.A. and Powers, S.M. 2023. “Disposal of Environmental Samples from Water Bodies Infested with Zebra Mussels.” Protocols.io. https://www.doi.org/10.17594/protocols.io.eq2lynoymvx9/v2.
2021
Barnard, M.A. 2021. “Protocol for Creating Major Ion Solutions for Freshwater Systems.” Protocols.io. https://www.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bvyxn7xn.
CODE AND DATA SHARING
2023
Macleod, M., Barnard, M., and Powers, S. 2023. "Spatial Survey of Water Quality in Lake Arrowhead, TX, USA ver 1." Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c36762ccc4d9a23c805004129bfa5c5e.
Dunn, P.O., Ahmed, I, Armstrong, E., Barlow, N., Barnard, M.A., Belisle, M., Benson, T.J., Berzins, L.L., Boynton, C.K., Brown, T.A., Cady, M., Cameron, K., Chen, X., Clark, R.G., Clotfelter, E.D., Cromwell, K., Dawson, R.D., Denton, E., Forbes, A., Fowler, K., Fraser, K.C., Gandhi, K., Garant, D., Hiebert, M., Houchen, C., Houtz, J., Imlay, T.L., Inouye, B.D., Inouye, D.W., Jackson, M., Jacobson, A.P., Jayd, K., Juteau, C., Kautz, A., Killian, C., Kinnear, E., Komatsu, K.J., Larsen, K., Laughlin, A., Levesque-Beaudin, V., Leys, R., Long, E., Lougheed, S.C., Mackenzie, S., Marangelo, J., Miller, C., Molano-Flores, B., Morrissey, C.A., Nicholls, E., Orlofske, J.M., Pearse, I.S., Pelletier, F., Pitt, A., Poston, J., Racke, D.M., Randall, J.A., Richardson, M.L., Rooney, O., Ruegg, A.R., Rush, S., Ryan, S., Sadowski, M., Schoepf, I., Schulz, L., Shea, B., Sheehan, T.N., Siefferman, L., Sikes, D., Stanback, M., Styrsky. J.D., Taff, C.C., Uehling, J.J., Uvino, K., Wassmer, T., Weglarz, K., Weinberger, M., Wenzel, J., and Whittingham, L.A. 2023. "Data Set for Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America." Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20415819.v1.
2022
Barnard, M.A. 2022 “GitHub: malcolmbarnard/Barnard_Paerl_bioRxiv” https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5898592.
2021
Barnard, M.A. 2021 “GitHub: malcolmbarnard/GrazingMethodDevelopment” https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5026535.
2020
Barnard, M.A. 2020. “GitHub: malcolmbarnard/WLE_Barnard_et_al_Toxins” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4281127.