J. Frederick Grassle
Professor,
Benthic ecology and ocean biogeography
email:
phone: 848-932-3450
Education: Ph.D., Duke University, Benthic Ecology and Ocean Biogeography
Research Interests:
Ocean biogeography and geographical information systems, benthic ecology
(especially continental shelf, slope, and rise communities), and ocean observing systems
Personal Interests:
Going to sea whenever possible for work and pleasure. Working with other scientists to
develop the Ocean Biogeographic Information System and completion of the first Census of
Marine Life by 2010.
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Publications 1969 - present: (publications posted for internal use and not accesable from outside the IMCS network)
1969-1979
Grassle, J.F. 1969. The
dangers of oil pollution on the Great Barrier Reef. Submission to the
Australian senate select committee on off-shore petroleum resources. Queensland
Littoral Society, pp. 12. pdf
Sanders, H.L., and J.F.
Grassle 1971. The interactions of diversity, distribution and mode of
reproduction among major groupings of the deep-sea benthos, pp. 260-262. In: Uda, M. (ed.) The Ocean World: Proceedings of Joint
Oceanographic Assembly, Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan, Tokyo. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1972. Species diversity,
genetic variability and environmental uncertainty, pp. 19-26. In: Battaglia, B. (ed.) Proceedings 5th European Marine Biology Symposium Piccin, Padua. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1973. Methods for studying the
effects of marine oil spills. Background information for ocean affairs board
workshop on: Iiputs, fates, and effects of
petroleum in the marine environment, Airlie, Virginia. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1973 Variety in coral reef communities,
pp. 247-270. In: Jones, O.A. and R. Endean (ed.) Biology and Geology of coral reefs,
vol. II: Biology I. Academic Press, New York. pdf
Grassle, J.F. and H. Sanders 1973. Life
histories and the role of disturbance. Deep-Sea Res. 20:643-659. pdf
Grassle, J.F., and J.P.
Grassle 1974. Opportunistic life histories and genetic systems in marine benthic polychaetes. J. Mar. Res. 3:253-284. pdf
Grassle, J.F., H.L.
Sanders, R.R. Hessler, G.T. Rowe, and T. McLellan 1975. Pattern and zonation-study
of bathyal megafauna using research submersible Alvin. Deep-Sea Res. 22:457-481. pdf
Turekian K.K., J.K. Cochran, D.P. Kharkar, R.M. Cerrato, J.R. Vaisnys, H.L. Sanders, J.F. Grassle, and J.A. Allen 1975. Slow growth rate of a deep-sea
clam determined by 228Ra chronology. Proc. Nail. Acad. Sei. USA 72:2829-2832. pdf
Heirtzler, J.R., and J.F. Grassle 1976.
Deep-sea research by manned submersibles. Science 194:294-299. pdf
Grassle,
J.P., and J.F. Grassle 1976.
Sibling species in the marine pollution indicator Capitella (Polychaeta).
Science 19:567-569. pdf
Grassle, J.F., and W. Smith
1976. Similarity measure sensitive to contribution of rare species and its
use in investigation of variation in marine benthic communities. Oecologia 25:13-22. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1977. Slow recolonization of deep-sea sediment. Nature 265:618-619. pdf
Grassle, J.F., and J.P.
Grassle 1977. Temporal adaptations in sibling species of Capitella, pp.177–189. In: Coull, B.C. (ed.)
Ecology of the Marine Benthos. Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science No.
6. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina. pdf
Smith, W. and J.F. Grassle 1977. Sampling properties
of a family of diversity measures. Biometrics 33:283-292. pdf
Grassle, J.F. and J.P.
Grassle 1978. Life histories and genetic variation in marine benthic
organisms, pp. 347-364. In: Battaglia, B. and H.A. Beardmore (ed.) The Genetics,
Ecology and Evolution of Marine Organisms. Plenum Press, New York. pdf
Grassle, J.F., J.P. Grassle,
L.S. Brown-Leger, C.H. Lanyon-Duncan, and N.J. Copley 1978. Benthic
communities in experimental ecosystems and the effects of petroleum
hydrocarbons. Second Annual Report of the Marine Ecosystems Research
Laboratory (MERL) to EPA, pp. 10. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1979. Diversity and population dynamics
of benthic organisms. Oceanus 21(1):42-49. pdf
Grassle, J.F., G.P. Patil, W.K. Smith and C. Taille 1979. Galapagos Biology Expedition Participants. Galapagos '79: Initial findings of a
biology quest. Oceanus 22(2):2-10. pdf
Grassle, J.F., H.L.
Sanders, and W. K. Smith 1979. Faunal changes with depth in the deep-sea
benthos. Ambio, Special Report, No. 6, pp. 47-50. pdf
Grassle, J.F., and J.M. Shick 1979. Introduction to the symposium: ecology of
asexual reproduction in animals. Amer. Zool. 19:667-668. pdf
Humes, A.G. and J.F. Grassle 1979. Serpulidicola josephellae sp. nov. (Copepoda: Cycllpodia) from a deep-water polychaete west of Ireland. Crustaceana 36:306-315. pdf
Smith, W.D., D. Kravitz and J.F. Grassle 1979. Confidence
intervals for similarity measures using the two sample jackknife. pp.
253-262. In: Orloci, L., C.R. Rao and W.M. Stiteler (ed.) Multivariate Methods in Ecological
Work, International Cooperative Publishing House, Fairland, Maryland. pdf
Smith, W.D, J.F.
Grassle and D. Kravitz 1979. Measures of
diversity with unbiased estimates, pp. 177-191. In: Grassle, J.F., G.P. Patil, W. Smith and
C. Thaille (ed.) Ecological Diversity in Theory and
Practice. International Co-operative Publishing House, Fairland, Maryland. pdf
Smith, W.K., V.R. Gibson, L.S. Brown-Leger and
J.F. Grassle 1979. Diversity as an indicator of pollution: cautionary results
from microcosm experiments, pp. 269-277. In: Grassle, J.F., G.P. Patil, W.K. Smith
and C. Taille (ed.) Ecological Diversity in Theory
and Practice. International Cooperative Publishing House, Fairland, Maryland. pdf
1980-1989
Elmgren, R., G.A. Vargo, J.F.
Grassle, J.P. Grassle, D.R. Heinle, C. Langlois and S.L. Vargo 1980. Trophic interactions in experimental marine ecosystems
perturbed by oil, pp. 779-800. In: Giesy, J.P. Jr. (ed.) Microcosms in ecological research,
Department of Energy Symposium Series 52, Technical Information Center, U.S.
Department of Energy. pdf
Grassle, J.F.1980. In situ
studies of deep-sea communities, pp. 321-332. In: Diemer,
J.P., F.J. Vernberg and D. Z. Mirkes (ed.) Advanced concepts in ocean measurements. Belle W. Baruch Library of
Marine Science No. 10, University South Carolina Press. Columbia, South
Carolina. pdf
Grassle, J.F., J.P.
Grassle, L.S. Brown-Leger, N.J. Copley, and R.F. Petrecca 1980. Quantitative
studies of macrofauna in three benthic communities
in experimental ecosystems. Fourth Annual Report of the Marine Ecosystems
Research Laboratory (MERL) to EPA, pp. 12. pdf
Sanders, H.L., J.F. Grassle, G.R. Hampson, L.S. Morse,
S. Garner-Price and C.C. Jones 1980. Anatomy of an oil spill: long-term
effects from the grounding of the barge FLORIDA off West Falmouth,
Massachusetts. J. Mar. Res. 38:265-380. pdf
Sherman, K., J.W. Deming, J.F.
Grassle, R.V. Lynch, E. Shulenberger, and C. Taillie 1980. Marine populations: Processes and
interactions, pp. 539-544. In: Diemer, F.D., F.J. Vernberg, and D. Z. Mirkes (ed.) Advanced concepts in ocean measurements for marine biology. Belle W.
Baruch Insitute for Marine Biology and Coastal
Research, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia. pdf
Grassle, J.F., R. Elmgren and J.P. Grassle 1981. Response of benthic
communities in MERL experimental systems to low level, chronic additions of
#2 fuel oil. Mar. Environ. Res. 4:279-297. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1982. The
biology of hydrothermal vents: a short summary of recent findings. Mar. Tech.
Soc. Jour. 16:33-38. pdf
Smith, W., V.R. Gibson and J.F. Grassle 1982. Replication in controlled marine systems:
presenting the evidence, pp. 217-225. In: Grice, G.D. and M.R. Reeve (ed.)
Marine mesocosms, biological and chemical research
in experimental ecosystems, Springer-Verlag, New
York. pdf
Grassle, J.F.1983.
Introduction to the biology of hydrothermal vents, pp. 671-682. In: Rona,
P.A. (ed.) Hydrothermal processes at sea floor spreading centers (NATO
Conference), Plenum Press, New York. pdf
Grassle. J.F. 1984. Animals
in soft sediments near hydrothermal vents. Oceanus 27:63-66. pdf
Grassle, J.P. and J.F. Grassle 1984. The utility of studying the effects of
pollutants on single species populations in benthos of mesocosms and coastal ecosystems, pp. 621-642. In: White, H.H. (ed.), Concepts in marine pollution measurements,
Maryland Sea Grant Publication, University of Maryland, College Park. pdf
Oviatt, C.A., M.R.Q. Pilson,
S.W. Nixon, J.B. Frithsen, D.T. Rudnick, J.R.
Kelly, J.F. Grassle and J.P.
Grassle 1984. Recovery of a polluted estuarine system: A mesocosm experiment. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 16:203-217. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1985.
Hydrothermal vent animals: distribution and biology. Science 229:713-717. pdf
Grassle, J.F., J.P.
Grassle, L.S. Brown-Leger, R.F. Petrecca and N.J. Copley 1985. Subtidal macrobenthos of
Narragansett Bay. Field and mesocosm studies of the
effects of eutrophication and organic input on
benthic populations, pp. 421-434. In: Gray, S. and M.E. Christianson (ed.)
Marine biology of polar regions and effects of stress on marine organisms,
John Wiley and Sons, New York. pdf
Grassle, J.F., L.S.
Brown-Leger, L.S. Morse-Porteous, R.F. Petrecca and
I.P. Williams 1985. Deep-sea fauna of sediments in the vicinity of
hydrothermal vents. Bull. Biol. Soc. Wash. 6:443-456. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1986. The ecology
of deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities. Adv. Mar. Biol. 23:301-362. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1987 Benthos,
pp. 186-194. In: Milliman, J.D. and W. Redwood
Wright (ed.) The marine environment of the U S. Atlantic continental slope
and rise, Jones and Bartlett Publishing Inc., pp. 140-201.
Grassle, J.F. and L.S.
Morse-Porteous 1987. Macrofaunal colonization of disturbed deep-sea environments and the structure of deep-sea
benthic communities. Deep-Sea Res. 34(12A):1911-1950. pdf
Maciolek-Blake, N.J. and J.F. Grassle 1987. Variability of the Benthic fauna, II. The
seasonal variation, 1981-1982, pp. 303-309. In: Backus, R.H. (ed.) Georges
Bank, MIT Press. pdf
Dinet, A., J.F. Grassle and V. Tunnicliffe 1988. Premières observations sur la meiofaune des sites hydrothermaux de la dorsale Est-Pacifique (Guaymas, 21oN
et Explorer Ridge), pp. 7-14. In: Oceanol. Acta. Hydrothermalism,
Biology and Ecology Symposium Proceedings, Paris, 4-7 November, 1985. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1988. A
plethora of unexpected life. Oceanus 31:41–46. pdf
Grassle, J.F., P.V.R.
Snelgrove, J.R. Weinberg and R.B. Whitlatch 1988.
The effect of plant material on a benthic community of the Bermuda continental
slope, pp. 283-289. In: DeLuca, M.P. and I. Babb (ed.) Global venting, midwater and benthic ecological processes. National
Undersea Research Center Report 88-4. Rockville, Maryland. pdf
Kaminski, M.A., J.F. Grassle and R.B. Whitlatch 1988.
Life history and recolonization among agglutinated
foraminifera in the Panama Basin. Proc. Second Workshop on Agglutinated
Foraminifera, Vienna Austria, June 23-26, 1986. Abhandl.
Geol. Bundesanstalt 41:228-244. pdf
Little, S.A., K.D. Stolzenbach and J.F. Grassle 1988. Tidal
effects on temperature measurements in diffuse hydrothermal flow from Guaymas Basin. Geophy. Res. Letters 15:1491-1494. pdf
Van Dover, C.L., B. Fry, J.F. Grassle, S. Humphris and P.A. Rona
1988. Feeding biology of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent shrimp:
functional morphology, gut content analyses, and stable isotopic
compositions. Mar. Biol. 98:209-216. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1989. Species
diversity in deep-sea communities. TREE 4:12-15. pdf
Neff, J., M. Bothner, N.
Maciolek and J.F. Grassle 1989.
Impacts of exploratory drilling. Mar. Environ. Res. 27:77-114. pdf
Petrecca, R.F. and J.F. Grassle 1989. Additional notes on deep-sea hydrothermal vent
and cold seep soft-sediment communities, pp. 279-283. In: McMurray, G. (ed.)
The Gorda Ridge Symposium Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, New York.
Van Dover, C.L., J.F. Grassle and M. Boudrias 1989.
Hydrothermal vent fauna of Escanaba Trough (Gorda Ridge), pp. 285-287. In: McMurray, G. (ed.) Gorda Ridge: a frontier in the United States Exclusive Zone, Springer Verlag, New York. pdf
1990-1999
Grassle, J.F. 1990. Science and sludge meet at
106-mile site. The Beachcomber 41:28-29. pdf
Grassle, J.F., N.J.
Maciolek, and J.A. Blake 1990. Are deep-sea communities resilient? pp.
385-393. In: Woodwell, G. (ed.) The earth in
transition, patterns and process of biotic impoverishment, Cambridge
University Press. pdf
Petrecca R. and J.F.
Grassle 1990. Notes on fauna from several deep-sea hydrothermal vent and
cold seep soft-sediment communities, pp. 279-283. In: McMurray, G.R. (ed.) Gorda Ridge: a seafloor spreading center in the United
States Exclusive Economic Zone, Springer Verlag,
New York. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1991.
Deep-Sea Benthic Biodiversity. Bioscience 41:465-469. pdf
Grassle, J.F., P. Laserre, A.D. McIntyre and G.C. Ray. 1991. Marine
biodiversity and ecosystem function: A proposal for an international programme of research. Biology International Special
Issue No. 23, pp. 19. pdf
Ray, G.C. and J.F.
Grassle 1991. Marine Biological Diversity. Bioscience 41:453-457. pdf
Etter, R.J. and J.F. Grassle 1992. Patterns of
species diversity in the deep sea as a function of sediment particle size diversity.
Nature 360:576-578. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1992 Global
species diversity: a response to J.C. Briggs. J. Nat. Hist. 26:265-266. pdf
Grassle, J.F. and N.J.
Maciolek 1992. Deep-sea species richness: regional and local diversity
estimates from quantitative bottom samples. Am. Nat. 139(2):313-341. pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R., J.F. Grassle and R.F. Petrecca 1992. The role of food patches in
maintaining high deep-sea diversity: field experiments using hydrodynamically unbiased colonization trays. Limnol. Oceanog. 37:1543-1550. pdf
Van Dover, C.L., J.F. Grassle, B. Fry, R.H. Garritt and
V.R. Starczak 1992. Stable isotopic evidence for
entry of sewage-derived organic matter into a deep-sea food web. Nature
360:153-156. pdf
von Alt, C.J. and
J.F. Grassle 1992. LEO-15 - An unmanned long term environmental
observatory. Proc. Oceans '92, Vol. 2, pp. 849-854. pdf
Blake, J.A. and J.F. Grassle 1994. Benthic community structure on the U.S. South
Atlantic slope off the Carolinas: spatial heterogeneity in a
current-dominated system. Deep-Sea Res. II 41:835-874. pdf
Bothner, M.H., H.
Takada, I.T. Knight, R.T. Hill, B. Butman, J.W.
Farrington, R.R. Colwell and J.F.
Grassle 1994. Sewage contamination in sediments beneath a deep-ocean
dumpsite off New York. Mar. Env. Res. 38:43-59. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1994.
Ecological patterns in the deep-sea benthos: how are they related to
reproduction, larval biology, and recruitment?, pp.
306-314. In: Young, C.M. and K.J. Eckelbarger (ed.) Reproduction, larval biology,
and recruitment of deep-sea benthos, Columbia University Press. pdf
Grassle, J.F. and J.P.
Grassle 1994. Notes from the abyss: the effects of a patchy supply of organic
material and larvae on soft-sediment benthic communities, pp. 499-515. In: Giller, P.S., A.G. Hildrew and
D.G. Raffaell (ed.) Aquatic Ecology: scale, pattern
and process, 34th Symposium of the British Ecological Society, Blackwell
Scientific Publications, Oxford, pp. 649. pdf
Grassle, J.F. and R.
Petrecca 1994. Soft-sediment hydrothermal vent communities of Escanaba
Trough. In: Morton, J.L., R.A. Zierenberg, and C.A.
Reiss (ed.) Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California, U.S.
Geological Survey, Bull. 2022:327-335. pdf
Lasserre, P., A. D.
McIntyre, J. C. Ogden, G. C. Ray, and J.
F. Grassle 1994. Marine laboratory networks for the study of the biodiversity, function and management
of marine ecosystems. Biology International, Special Issue No. 31, pp. 33. pdf
Rice, A.L., M.V. Angel, J.F. Grassle, B. Hargrave, R.R. Hessler, M. Horikoshi, K. Lochte, M. Sibuet, K.L. Smith,
H. Thiel and N. Vinogradova 1994. Suggested criteria for describing deep-sea benthic communities, the
final report of SCOR Working Group 76. Prog. Oceanog. 34:81-100. pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R., J.F. Grassle, and R.F. Petrecca 1994. Macrofaunal response to artificial enrichments and depressions in a deep-sea habitat. J.
Mar. Res. 51:345-369. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1995.
Deep-ocean biodiversity. International Marine Science Newsletter. 75/76:9 pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R., C.A. Butman and J.F. Grassle 1995. Potential flow artifacts associated with benthic
experimental gear: deep-sea mudbox examples. J.
Mar. Res. 53:821-845. pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R. and J.F. Grassle 1995. The deep sea: desert and rainforest. Oceanus
38(2):25-29. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 1996
Deep-ocean biodiversity, pp. 104-106. In: diCastri.
F. and T. Younes, (ed.) Biodiversity, science and
development: towards a new partnership, CAB International. pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R., J.F. Grassle and R.F. Petrecca 1996. Experimental evidence for
aging food patches as a factor contributing to high deep-sea macrofaunal diversity. Limnol. Oceanog. 41:605-614. pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R., T.H. Blackburn, P.A. Hutchings,
D.M. Alongi, J.F.
Grassle, H. Hummel, G. King, I. Koike, P.J.D. Lambshead,
N.B. Ramsing, and V. Solis-Weiss 1997. The
importance of marine sediment biodiversity in ecosystem processes. Ambio 26(8):578-583. pdf
von Alt, C., M.P.
DeLuca, S.M. Glenn, J.F. Grassle,
and D.B. Haidvogel 1997. LEO-15: Monitoring and
Managing Coastal Resources. Sea Technology 38(8):10-16. pdf
Glenn, S.M., D.B. Haidvogel, O. Schofield, J.F. Grassle, C.J. von
Alt, E.R. Levine, and D.C. Webb 1998. Coastal predictive skill experiments at
the LEO-15 national littoral laboratory. Sea Technology 39(4):63-69.
Grassle, J.F. 1998. Biologists first look at vent
communities-Galápagos Rift, 1979. Oceanus 41(2):1-5. pdf
Grassle, J.F. and B.L. Matthews 1998. Workshop on biodiversity, pp.
317-320. In: Gal, L. and Halvorson (ed.). New developments in marine
biotechnology, Plenum Press, New York. pdf
Grassle, J.F., S. Glenn, and C. von Alt 1998. Ocean
observing systems for marine habitats. Ocean Community Conference ‘98, Marine
Technology Society, Proceedings 1:567-571. pdf
Grassle, J.F., K.L. Stocks
1999. A global ocean biogeographic information
system (OBIS) for the Census of Marine Life. Oceanogr.12(3):12-14. pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R., J.P. Grassle, J.F. Grassle, R.F. Petrecca, H. Ma 1999. In situ habitat selection by
settling larvae of marine soft-sediment invertebrates. Limnol. Oceanog. 44(5): 1341-1347. pdf
2000-2009
Glenn, S.M., J.F.
Grassle, and C.J. von Alt 2000. A well-sampled ocean. The LEO approach.
Oceanus 42 (1):28-30. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 2000. The
ocean biogeographic information system (OBIS): an
on-line, worldwide atlas for accessing, modeling and mapping marine
biological data in a multidimensional context. Oceanogr.
13(3):5-9. pdf
Grassle, J.F. and C.J.
Decker 2000. The Ocean Biogeographical Information
System (OBIS). ASC Newsletter 28(6):8-9. pdf
Stocks, K.I., Y. Zhang,
C. Flanders, and J.F. Grassle 2000. OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System. The Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University.
2000. http://marine.rutgers.edu/OBIS
Glenn, S.M., O.M.E. Schofield, R.J. Chant and J.F. Grassle 2001. The New Jersey shelf
observing system. Oceans 2002. pdf
Grassle, J.F. 2001. Marine
Ecosystems. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol. 4, pp.
13-25. pdf
Nowlin Jr., W.D., M.
Briscoe, N. Smith, M.J. McPhaden, D. Roemmich, P. Chapman, and J.F. Grassle 2001. Evolution of a sustained ocean observing
system. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., July 2001, pp.
1369-1376. pdf
Snelgrove, P.V.R. and J.F. Grassle 2001. Deep-Sea Fauna. In: Steele, J., S. Thorpe, and
K. Turekian (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. pdf
Snelgrove, P. V. R., J.F. Grassle, J.P. Grassle, R.F. Petrecca, and K.I.
Stocks 2001. The role of colonization in establishing patterns of community
composition and diversity in shallow-water sedimentary communities. J. Mar.
Res. 59:813-830. pdf
Stocks, K.I., and J.F. Grassle 2001. Effects of microalgae and food limitation on
the recolonization of benthic macrofauna in in situ saltmarsh-pond mesocosms. Mar. Ecol. Prog.
Ser. 221:93-104. pdf
Zhang, Y.P., J.F. Fracassi,
J.E. Wiggins, S.M. Glenn and J.F.
Grassle 2001. RODAN: Rutgers Ocean Data Access Network Powered by Java
Technologies. American Meteorological Society: Fifth Symposium on Integrated
Observing Systems, pp. 21-25. pdf
Schofield, O., T. Bergmann, P. Bissett, J.F. Grassle, D.B. Haidvogel, J. Kohut, M. Moline,
and S.M. Glenn 2002. The long-term ecosystem observatory: an integrated
coastal observatory. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 27(2):146-154. pdf
Hankin, S., L.
Bernard, P. Cornillon, J.F. Grassle, D. Legler, J. Lever, and
S. Worley 2003. Designing the data management and communications
infrastructure for the U.S. integrated ocean observing system. Mar.
Techno. Soc. J. 37(3):51-54.
Stocks, K. and J.F. Grassle 2003. Benthic macrofaunal communities in partially impounded salt marshes in Delaware: comparisons with
natural marshes and responses to sediment exposure. Estuaries 26(3):777-789. pdf
Zhang, Y. and J.F.
Grassle 2003. A portal for the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Oceanologica Acta 25:193-197. pdf
Madin, L., F. Grassle,
F. Azam, D. Obura, M. Reaka-Kudla, M. Sibuet, G.
Stone, K. Stocks, A. Walls, G. Allen 2004. The Unknown Ocean. In: Glover,
L.K. and S.A. Earle (ed.) Defying Ocean’s End, Island Press. pdf
Costello, M.J, J.F. Grassle, Y. Zhang, K. Stocks,
E. Vanden Berghe 2005. Where is what and what is
where? Online mapping of marine species. MarBEF Newsletter. Spring 2005, pp. 20-22. pdf
Wood, J.B., P.Y. Zhang, M.J. Costello, J.F. Grassle 2005. An introduction to
OBIS, www.iobis.org. In: Miloslavich P. and E.
Klein (ed.) Caribbean marine biodiversity: the known and the unknown. DEStech Publications Inc., Lancaster Pennsylvania USA, pp. 253-254.
Zhuang, W., Y.
Zhang, J.F. Grassle 2005.
Identifying erroneous data using outlier detection techniques. In: Vanden
Berghe, E.W., M.J. Appletans, C.P. Pissierssens (ed.) Proceedings of Ocean Bioiversity Informatics: an international conference on
marine biodiversity data management, Hamburg, Germany, 29 November-December, 2004, Paris, UNESCO/IOC, VLIZ, BSH, 2007. vi
+ 192 pp. (IOC Workshop Report 202), (VLIZ Special
Publications, 37). pdf
Grassle,
J.F., P.A. Ramey, and R.M Petrecca 2009.
Temporal and spatial variation in infaunal community structure in physically active continental shelf sediments at a
long-term ecosystem observatory (LEO-15) off New Jersey, USA. J. Mar.Res., in press.
Ramey, P.A., J.P. Grassle, J.F. Grassle, and
R.M. Petrecca 2009. Small-scale, patchy distributions of infauna in hydrodynamically mobile continental shelf sands:
do ripple crests and troughs support different communities? Cont. Shelf Res.
29:2222-2233. pdf
Rona, P.A., A. Seilacher,
C. de Vargas, A.J. Gooday, J.M. Bernhard, S.
Bowser, C. Vetriani, C.O. Wirsen,
L. Mullineaux, R. Sherrell, J.F. Grassle, S. Low, and R.A.
Lutz 2009. Paleodictyon nodosum: a
living fossil on the deep-sea floor. Deep-Sea Res. II 56:1700-1712. pdf
