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• Wetzel, D.L. and E.S. Van Vleet. 2003.  Persistence of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination in Sediments of the Canals in Venice, Italy: 1995 and 1998.  Marine Pollution Bulletin.  46:1015-1023.

• Pierce, R.H., D.L. Wetzel and E.D Estevez. 2004.  Charlotte Harbor Initiative: Assessing the Ecological Health of Southwest Florida’s Charlotte, Harbor Estuary.  Ecotoxicology.13:275-284.

• Wetzel, D.L., and J.E. Reynolds, III.  2004.  Definitive identification of fatty acid constituents in marine mammal tissues.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 61:554-560.

• Wetzel, D.L. and E.S. Van Vleet. 2004. Accumulation and Distribution of Petroleum Hydrocarbons found in Mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) in the Canals of Venice, Italy.  Marine Pollution Bulletin. 48:927-936.

• O’Hara, T., P. Hoekstra, C. Hanns, D. Muir, D. Wetzel, and J. Reynolds. 2004. A preliminary assessment of the nutritive value of select tissues from the bowhead whale based on suggested nutrient daily intakes.  International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee Report SC/56/E2:1-19.

• Cheng, Y.S., T.A. Villareal, Y. Zhou, J. Gao, R.H. Pierce, D.Wetzel, J.Naar and D.G. Baden.  2005.  Characterization of red tide aerosol on the Texas Coast.  Harmful Algae. 4:87-94.

• Reynolds, J.E., III, D. L. Wetzel, and T. M. O’Hara. 2006   Omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids in blubber of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus): health implications for subsistence-level cultures.  Arctic.  59(2):155-164.

• Downs, C.A.,J.E. Fauth, D.Wetzel, P. Hallock, J.F.Halas, R. Curry and C.M. Woodley. 2006. Investigating Coral Reef Degradation at Alina’s Reef in the Florida Keys: Cellular Physiology of White Grunt (Haemulon plumieri) as a Biological Indicator.  Environmental Forensics. 7:1-18.

• Wetzel, D.L. and E.S. Van Vleet. 2005.  Cooperative Aquatic Toxicity Testing of Dispersed Oil and the “Chemical Response to Oil Spills: Ecological Effects Research Forum (CROSERF).  Aurand and Coelho (eds.). Ecosystem Management & Associates, Inc. Lusby, MD.  Tech. Report 07-03. 105pp,

• Wetzel, D.L., Reynolds, J.E. and Christie,W.W. 2007. Identification of fatty acids by picolinyl ester derivatives. Marine Mammal Sci., 23(4): 989-990.

• Delgado, G., Glazer R. and Wetzel, D.L. 2007. The Effects of Pesticides on Conch Embryos and Larvae. The Conch Horn Vol.3 (1). Florida FWC Conch Research and Restoration Program.

• George, J.C., D.L. Wetzel, L. Dehn, T.M. O’Hara, T.M. Robertson, R.G. LeDuc, and J.E. Reynolds, III, 2008.  An Analysis of Ancient Bowhead Whale Mangtak from Gambell Alaska: What can it tell us?  International Whaling Commission SC/60/E?

• Wetzel, D.L., J. E. Reynolds, III, J. M. Sprinkel, L. Schwacke, P. Mercurio and S. A. Rommel. 2010. Fatty acid signature analysis as a potential forensic tool for Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Science of the Total Environment 408:6124-6133.

• Wilson, R.C., J. E. Reynolds III, D. L. Wetzel, L. Schweirzke-Wade, R. K. Bonde, K. F. Breuel and W. E. Roudebush.  2011.  Secretion of anti-Mullerian hormone in the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) with implications for assessing conservation status. Endangered Species Research. 14:107-112.

• Crespo, E.A., M. Borobia, D. Alarcon, M. Alonso, M.Bazzalo, M.Cremer, G.Filla, F. A. Magalhães, J. Marigo, H. Queiróz, J. E. Reynolds, III, Y. Schaeffer, D.L. Wetzel.  2011.  Report of the sub-group on major threats to and conservation. Special Volume on the Biology and Conservation of Neotropical Dolphins of the Genus Sotalia.  Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 8(1-2):47-56.

• Wetzel, D.L., E. Pulster, and J.E. Reynolds, III.  2012.  Organic contaminants and sirenians.  IN:  Hines, E., J.E. Reynolds, III, A. A. Mignucci-Giannoni, L. V. Aragones, and M. Marmontel (eds.).  Sirenian Conservation: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries.  University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

• Goodbody-Gringley, G., D. L. Wetzel, D. Gillon1, E. Pulster1, A. Miller1, and K. B. Ritchie. 2013. Toxicity of Deepwater Horizon source oil and the chemical dispersant, Corexit® 9500, to coral larvae. PLoS One. Vol 8(1) e45574.

• Delgado, G.A., Glazer, R.A. and D. Wetzel. 2013. Effects of Mosquito Control Pesticides on Competent Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) Larvae. Biol. Bull. 225:71-78.

• Ponnampalam, L. S., Fairul Izmal, J. H., Ichikawa, K., Akamatsu, T., Kee Alfian, A. A., Wetzel D. and Reynolds III, J. 2014. A multi-pronged approach for overcoming knowledge barriers on the ecology and status of dugongs (Dugong dugon) in Johor, Malaysia: Towards critical habitat protection. Pages 101 -- 112 in Wan Musthapa, W. F. Z., Nik Rosely, N. F. and Othman, A. S. (Eds). Johor Nature Heritage. School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.

• Synder, S.M., Pulster, E.L., Wetzel, D.L, and S.A. Murawski. 2015. PAH Exposure in Gulf of Mexico Demersal Fishes, Post-Deepwater Horizon. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2015, 49 (14), pp 8786–8795.

• Hong, Y.S., Wetzel, D.L., Pulster, E.L., Hull, P., Reible, D., Hwang, H.M., Ji, P. Rifkin, E., Bouwer, E. 2015. Significant spatial variability of bioavailable PAHs in water column and sediment porewater in the Gulf of Mexico 1 year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 187:646. doi:10.1007/s10661-015-4867-x.

• Romero, I. C., Özgökmen, T., Snyder, S., Schwing, P., O'Malley, B. J., Beron-Vera, F. J., Wetzel. D.L. et al. 2016. Tracking the Hercules 265 marine gas well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, 706–724, doi:10.1002/2015JC011037.

• Wetzel, D.L., J.E. Reynolds, III, P. Mercurio, G.H. Givens, E.L. Pulster and J.C. George. 2017. Age estimation for bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, using aspartic acid racemization with enhanced hydrolysis and derivatization procedures. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (In Press).

• Hollenbeck, C.M., Portnoy, D.S., Wetzel, D.L., Sherwood, T.A., Samollow, P.B., Gold, J.R. 2017.  Linkage Mapping and Comparative Genomics of Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) Using Next-Generation Sequencing. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics Early online January 25, 2017; DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.036350

• Pulster, E., Wetzel, D.L., Main, K. and S. Murawski. 2017.  Species specific metabolic capacity of naphthalene and phenanthrene in three species of marine teleosts exposed to Deepwater Horizon crude oil. (In Press). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.