Doran Mason

• ANDERSON, E.J., C.A. STOW, A.D. GRONEWOLD, D.M. MASON, M.J. McCORMICK, S.S. Qian, S.A. RUBERG, K.S. BEADLE, S.A. CONSTANT, and N. HAWLEY. Seasonal overturn and stratification changes drive deep-water warming in one of Earth’s largest lakes. Nature Communications 12(DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-21971-1) (2021).
• Gottesman, B.L., J.C. Olson, S. Yang, O. Acevedo-Charry, D. Francomano, F.A. Martinez, R.S. Appledoorn, D.M. MASON, E. Weil, and B.C. Pijanowski. What does resilience sound like? Coral reef and dry forest acoustic communities respond differently to Hurricane Maria. Ecological Indicators 126(DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107635) (2021).
• Robinson, K.F., P.J. ALSIP, A.R. Drake, Y.C. Kao, M.A. Koops, D.M. MASON, E.S. RUTHERFORD, and H. ZHANG. Reviewing uncertainty in bioenergetics and food web models to project invasion impacts: Four major Chinese carps in the Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 47(1):83-95 (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2020.11.003) (2021).
• RUTHERFORD, E.S., H. ZHANG, Y.C. Kao, D.M. MASON, A. Shakoor, K. Bouma-Gregson, J.T. Breck, D.M. Lodge, and W.L. Chadderton. Potential Effects of Bigheaded Carps on Four Laurentian Great Lakes Food Webs. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 41(4):999-1019 (DOI:10.1002/nafm.10527) (2021).
• Dillon, R.A., J.D. Conroy, L. Rudstam, P.F. Craigmile, D.M. MASON, and S.A. Ludsin. Towards more robust hydroacoustic estimates of fish abundance in the presence of pelagic macroinvertebrates. Fisheries Research 230(2020).
• ALSIP, P.J., H. ZHANG, M.D. ROWE, E.S. RUTHERFORD, D.M. MASON, C.M. Riseng, and Z. Su. Modeling the interactive effects of nutrient loads, meteorology, and invasive mussels on suitable habitat for Bighead and Silver Carp in Lake Michigan. Biological Invasions 22:2763-2785 (DOI:10.1007/s10530-020-02296-4) (2020). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2020/20200025.pdf
• Ivan, L.N., D.M. MASON, H. ZHANG, E.S. RUTHERFORD, T.S. HUNTER, S.E. Sable, A.T. Adamack, and K. Rose. Potential establishment and ecological effects of bighead and silver carp in a productive embayment of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Biological Invasions 22(8):2473-2495 (DOI:10.1007/s10530-020-02263-z) (2020). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2020/20200024.pdf
• ALSIP, P.J., H. ZHANG, M.D. ROWE, D.M. MASON, E.S. RUTHERFORD, C.M. Riseng, and Z. Su. Lake Michigan's suitability for bigheaded carp: The importance of diet flexibility and subsurface habitat. Freshwater Biology 64(11):1921-1939 (DOI:doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13382) (2019).
• Glaspie, C.N., M. Clouse, K. Huebert, S.A. Ludsin, D.M. MASON, J. Pierson, M.R. Roman, and S.B. Brandt. Fish Diet Shifts Associated with the Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone. Estuaries and Coasts 42:2170-2183 (DOI:10.1007/s12237-019-00626-x) (2019).
• STURTEVANT, R.A., D.M. MASON, E.S. RUTHERFORD, A.K. ELGIN, E. LOWER, and F. MARTINEZ. Recent history of nonindigenous species in the Laurentian Great Lakes; An update to Mills et al., 1993 (25 years later). Journal of Great Lakes Research 45(6):1011-1035 (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2019.09.002) (2019). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2020/20200001.pdf
• STURTEVANT, R.A., E.K. LOWER, N. BOUCHER, P.J. ALSIP, K. Hopper, S. Iott, D.M. MASON, A.K. ELGIN, and F.A. MARTINEZ. 2018 Update to "An Impact Assessment of Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species". NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL-161b. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 50 pp. (DOI:10.25923/meg8-v434) (2019). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/tech_reports/glerl-161b/tm-161b.pdf
• ZHANG, H., E.S. RUTHERFORD, D.M. MASON, M.E. Wittman, D.M. Lodge, X. Zhu, T.B. Johnson, and A. Tucker. Modeling potential impacts of three benthic invasive species on the Lake Erie food web. Biological Invasions 21(5):1697-1719 (DOI:10.1007/s10530-019-01929-7) (2019). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2019/20190012.pdf
• Glaspie, C.N., M. Clouse, A.T. Adamack, Y.K. Cha, S.A. Ludsin, D.M. MASON, M.R. Roman, C.A. STOW, and S.B. Brandt. Effect of hypoxia on diet of Atlantic bumper Chloroscombrus chrysurus in the northern Gulf of Mexico Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 147(4):740-748 (DOI:10.1002/tafs.10063) (2018). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180007.pdf
• Niu, Q., M. Xia, S.A. Ludsin, P.Y. CHU, D.M. MASON, and E.S. RUTHERFORD. High‐turbidity events in Western Lake Erie during ice‐free cycles: Contributions of river‐loaded vs. resuspended sediments. Limnology and Oceanography (DOI:10.1002/lno.10959) (2018). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180018.pdf (IN PRESS)
• Lodge, D.M., et. al, (Including RUTHERFORD, E.S.; BELETSKY, D.; MASON, D.; MARTINEZ, F.; ZHANG, H. Risk Analysis and Bioeconomics of Invasive Species to Inform Policy and Management. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41:453-488 (DOI:10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-085532) (2016).
• ZHANG, H., E.S. RUTHERFORD, D.M. MASON, J.T. Breck, M.T. Wittman, R.M. Cooke, D.M. Lodge, J.D. Rothlisberger, X. Zhu, and T.B. Johnson. Forecasting the impacts of silver and bighead carp on the Lake Erie food web. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145(1):136-162 (DOI:10.1080/00028487.2015.1069211) (2016). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2016/20160003.pdf
• Krueger, D.M., E.S. RUTHERFORD, and D.M. MASON. Foraging ecology of walleye and brown trout in a Great Lakes tributary. Journal of Great Lakes Research:8 pp. (DOI:DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2015.10.016) (2015).
• VANDERPLOEG, H.A., S.A. POTHOVEN, D.M. Krueger, D.M. MASON, J.R. LIEBIG, J.F. CAVALETTO, S.A. RUBERG, G.A. LANG, and R. Ptacnikova. Spatial and predatory interactions of visually preying nonindigenous zooplankton and fish in Lake Michigan during midsummer. Journal of Great Lakes Research 41(Supplement 3):125-142 (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2015.10.005) (2015).
• Jiang, L., M. Xia, S.A. Ludsin, E.S. RUTHERFORD, D.M. MASON, J.M. Jarrin, and K.L. Pangle. Biophysical modeling assessment of the drivers for plankton dynamics in dreissenid-colonized western Lake Erie. Ecological Modelling 308:18-33 (2015).
• Link, J., D.M. MASON, T. Lederhouse, S. Gaichas, T. Hartley, J. Ianeli, R. Methot, C. Stock, C.A. STOW, and H. Townsend. Report from the Joint OAR-NMFS Modeling Uncertainty Workshop. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-153. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD, 31 pp. (2015). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2015/NOAA_TM_NMFS-F_SPO-153.pdf
• Niu, Q., M. Xia, E.S. RUTHERFORD, D.M. MASON, E.J. ANDERSON, and D.J. SCHWAB. Investigation of interbasin exchange and interannual variability in Lake Erie using an unstructured-grid hydrodynamic model. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 120:21 pp. (DOI:10.1002/2014JC010457) (2015).
• Cooke, R.M., M.E. Wittmann, D.M. Lodge, J.D. Rothlisberger, E.S. RUTHERFORD, H. ZHANG, and D.M. MASON. Out-of-sample validation for structured expert judgment of Asian Carp establishment in Lake Erie. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 10(4):522-528 (2014). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2014/20140047.pdf
• Wittmann, M., R. Cooke, J. Rothlisberger, E.S. RUTHERFORD, H. ZHANG, D.M. MASON, and D. Lodge. Use of structured expert judgment to forecast invasions by Bighead and Silver carp in Lake Erie. Conservation Biology 29(1):187-197 (DOI:10.1111/cobi.12369) (2014). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2014/20140041.pdf
• Cooke, R.M., M.E. Wittmann, D.M. Lodge, J.D. Rothlisberger, E.S. RUTHERFORD, H. ZHANG, and D.M. MASON. Out-of-sample validation for structured expert judgment of Asian Carp establishment in Lake Erie. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 10(4):522-528 (2014). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2014/20140047.pdf
• Scavia, D., J.D. Allan, K.K. Arend, S. Bartell, D. BELETSKY, N.S. Bosch, S.B. Brandt, R.D. Briland, I. Daloglu, J.V. DePinto, D.M. Dolan, M.A. Evans, T.M. Farner, D. Goto, H. Han, T.O. Hook, R. Knight, S.A. Ludsin, D.M. MASON, A.M. Michalak, R.P. Richards, J.J. Roberts, D.K. Rucinski, E.S. RUTHERFORD, D.J. SCHWAB, T. Sesterhenn, H. ZHANG, and Y. Zhou. Assessing and addressing the re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Central basin hypoxia. Journal of Great Lakes Research 40:21 pp. (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2014.02.004) (2014).
• Wittmann, M., R. Cooke, J. Rothlisberger, E.S. RUTHERFORD, H. ZHANG, D.M. MASON, and D. Lodge. Structured expert judgment to forecast species invasions: Bighead and silver carp in Lake Erie. Conservation Biology:10 (DOI:10.1111/cobi.12369) (2014). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2014/20140041.pdf
• ZHANG, H., D.M. MASON, C.A. STOW, A.T. ADAMACK, S.B. Brandt, X. Zhang, D.G. Kimmel, M.R. Roman, W.C. Boicourt, and S.A. Ludsin. Effects of hypoxia on habitat quality of pelagic planktivorous fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 505:209-226 (DOI:10.3354/meps10768) (2014).
• KRUEGER, D.M., E.S. RUTHERFORD, and D.M. MASON. Modeling the influence of parr predation by walleyes and brown trout on the long-term population dynamics of chinook salmon in Lake Michigan: A stage matrix approach. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 142(4):1101-1113 (DOI:10.1080/00028487.2013.797496) (2013). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00028487.2013.797496#.UcsmslMhYWI
• Brandt, S.B., M. Costantini, S.E. Kolesar, S.A. Ludsin, D.M. MASON, C.M. Rae, and H. ZHANG. Does hypoxia reduce habitat quality for Lake Erie walleye (Sander vitreus)? A bioenergetics perspective. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68:857-879 (DOI:10.1139/F2011-018) (2011).
• KRUEGER, D.M., E.S. RUTHERFORD, and D.M. MASON. Influence of predation mortality on survival of Chinook salmon parr in a Lake Michigan tributary. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140:147-163 (DOI:10.1080/00028487.2011.556991) (2011).
• Jaeger Miehls, A.L., D.M. MASON, K.A. Frank, A.E. Krause, S.D. PEACOR, and W.W. Taylor. Invasive species impacts on ecosystem structure and function: A comparison of Oneida Lake, New York, USA, before and after zebra mussel invasion. Ecological Modelling 220(DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.07.020):3194-3209 (2009).
• Jaeger Miehls, A.L., D.M. MASON, K.A. Frank, A.E. Krause, S.D. PEACOR, and W.W. Taylor. Invasive species impacts on ecosystem structure and function: A comparison of the Bay of Quinte, Canada, and Oneida Lake, USA before and after zebra mussel invasion. Ecological Modelling 220(DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.07.013):3182-3193 (2009).
• Ludsin, S.A., X. Zhang, S.B. Brandt, M.R. Roman, W.C. Boicourt, D.M. MASON, and M. Costantini. Hypoxia-avoidance by planktivorous fish in Chesapeake Bay: implications for food web interactions and fish recruitment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 381:S121-131 (2009).
• ZHANG, H., S.A. Ludsin, D.M. MASON, A.T. ADAMACK, S.B. Brandt, X. Zhang, D.G. Kimmel, M.R. Roman, and W.C. Boicourt. Hypoxia driven changes in the behavior and spatial distribution of pelagic fish and mesozooplankton in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 381:S80-S91 (2009).
• JOSEPH, S.T., L.A. CHAIMOWITZ, M.A. QUIGLEY, R.A. STURTEVANT, D.M. MASON, C.E. SELLINGER, J. WANG, and C. DeMARCHI. Impact of climate change on the Great Lakes ecosystem: A NOAA science needs assessment workshop to meet emerging challenges - summary report. NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL-147. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor, MI, 48 pp. (2009). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/tech_reports/glerl-147/tm-147.pdf
• Costantini, M., S.A. LUDSIN, D.M. MASON, X. Zhang, W.C. Boicourt, and S.B. BRANDT. Effect of hypoxia on habitat quality of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) in Chesapeake Bay. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:989-1002 (2008). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2008/20080010.pdf
• HÖÖK, T.O., E.S. Rutherford, T.E. CROLEY II, D.M. MASON, and C.P. Madenjian. Annual variation in habitat-specific recruitment success: Implications from an individual-based model of Lake Michigan alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:1402-1412 (2008). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2008/20080021.pdf
• POTHOVEN, S.A., S.A. LUDSIN, T.O. HÖÖK, D.L. FANSLOW, D.M. MASON, P.D. Collingsworth, and J.J. VanTassel. Reliability of bioelectrical impedence analysis for estimating whole-fish energy density and percent lipids. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:1519-1529 (2008). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2008/20080039.pdf
• BELETSKY, D., D.M. MASON, D.J. SCHWAB, E.S. Rutherford, J.J. Janssen, D.F. Clapp, and J.M. Dettmers. Biophysical model of larval yellow perch advection and settlement in Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33:842-866 (2007). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2007/20070041.pdf
• Godby, N.A., Jr., E.S. Rutherford, and D.M. MASON. Diet, feeding rate, growth, mortality, and production of juvenile steelhead in a Lake Michigan tributary. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27:578-592 (2007). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2007/20070009.pdf
• HÖÖK, T.O., E.S. Rutherford, D.M. MASON, and G.S. Carter. Hatch dates, growth rates, and over-winter mortality of age-0 alewives in Lake Michigan: Implications for habitat-specific recruitment success. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:1298-1312 (2007). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2007/20070028.pdf
• POTHOVEN, S.A., H.A. VANDERPLOEG, J.F. CAVALETTO, D.M. KRUEGER, D.M. MASON, and S.B. BRANDT. Alewife planktivory controls the abundance of two invasive predatory cladocerans in Lake Michigan. Freshwater Biology 52(doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01728.x):561-573 (2007).
• HÖÖK, T.O., M.J. McCORMICK, E.S. Rutherford, D.M. MASON, and G.S. Carter. Short-term water mass movements in Lake Michigan: Implications for larval fish transport. Journal of Great Lakes Research 32:728-737 (2006). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2006/20060044.pdf
• MASON, D.M., B. Nagy, M. Butler, S. Larsen, D.J. Murie, and W.J. Lindberg. Integration of technologies for understanding the functional relationship between reef habitat and fish growth and production. In Emerging Technologies for Reef Fisheries Research and Management. J.C. Taylor (Ed.). NOAA Professional Paper NMFS No. 5. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA, 105-116 (2006). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2006/20060047.pdf
• DeMaster, D., M. Fogarty, D. M. MASON, G. Matlock, and A. Hollowed. Management of living marine resources in an ecosystem context. White paper #2. In Ecosystem Science Capabilities Required to Support NOAA's Mission in the Year 2020. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-74. S.A. Murawski and G.C. Matlock (Eds.). NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD, 15-28 (2006). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2006/2006tm74.pdf
• Lindberg, W. J., T. K. Frazer, K. P. Portier, F. Vose, J. Loftin, D. J. Murie, D. M. MASON, B. Nagy, and M. K. Hart. Density-dependent habitat selection and performance by a large mobile reef fish. Ecological Applications 16(2):731-746 (2006). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2006/20060009.pdf
• Plattner, S., D. M. MASON, G. A. LESHKEVICH, D. J. SCHWAB, and E. S. Rutherford. Classifying and forecasting coastal upwellings in Lake Michigan using satellite derived temperature images and buoy data. Journal of Great Lakes Research 32:63-76 (2006). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2006/20060008.pdf
• MASON, D. M., T. B. Johnson, C. J. Harvey, J. F. Kitchell, S. T. Schram, C. R. Bronte, M. H. Hoff, S. J. LOZANO, A. S. Trebitz, D. R. Schreiner, E. C. Lamon, and T. Hrabik. Hydroacoustic estimates of abundance and spatial distribution of pelagic prey fishes in western Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research 31:426-438 (2005). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2005/20050026.pdf
• Madenjian, C. P., T. O. Hook, E. S. Rutherford, D. M. MASON, T. E. CROLEY II, E. B. Szalai and J. R. Bence. Recruitment variability of alewives in Lake Michigan. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:218-230 (2005). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2005/20050002.pdf
• Hook, T. O., E. S. Rutherford, S. J. Brines, C. A. Geddes, D. M. MASON, D. J. SCHWAB and G. W. Fleischer. Landscape scale measures of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) bioenergetic growth rate potential in Lake Michigan and comparison with angler catch rates. Journal of Great  Lakes Research 30(4):545-556 (2004).
• Johnson, T. B., M. H. Hoff, A. S. Trebitz, C. R. Bronte, W. P. Brown, T. D. Corry, J. F. Kitchell, S. T. LOZANO, D. M. MASON, J. V. Scharold, S. T. Schram and D. R. Schreiner. Spatial patterns in assemblage structures of pelagic forage fish and zooplankton in western Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research 30(Supplement 1):395-406 (2004). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2004/20040033.pdf
• Krause, A. E., K. A. FRANK, D. M. MASON, R. E. Ulanowicz, and W. W. Taylor. Compartments revealed in food-web structure. Nature 426:282-285 (2003). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2003/20030014.pdf
• BRANDT, S. B. and D. M. MASON. Effect of nutrient loading on Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) growth rate potential in the Patuxent River. Estuaries 26(2A):298-309 (2003). https://estuariesandcoasts.org/journal/ESTU2003/ESTU2003_26_2A_298_309.pdf
• Hook, T. O., E. S. Rutherford, S. J. Brines, D. M. MASON, D. J. SCHWAB, M. J. McCORMICK, G. W. Fleischer and T. J. DeSorcie. Spatially explicit measures of production of young alewives in Lake Michigan: linkage between essential fish habitat and recruitment. Estuaries 26(1):21-29 (2003).
• BRANDT, S. B., D. M. MASON, M. J. McCORMICK, B. M. LOFGREN, T. S. HUNTER, and J. A. TYLER. Climate change: implications for fish growth performance in the Great Lakes. American Fisheries Society Symposium 32:61-76 (2002).
• Norcross, B. L., E. D. Brown, R. J. Foy, M. Frandsen, S. M. Gay, T. C. Kline, D. M. MASON, E. V. Patrick, A. J. Paul, and K. D. E. Stokesbury. A synthesis of the life history and ecology of juvenile pacific herring in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Fisheries Oceanography 10(1):42-57 (2001).
• Willete, M. T., R. T. Cooney, V. Patrick, D. M. MASON, G. L. Thomas, and D. Scheel. Ecological processes influencing mortality of juvenile pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Fisheries Oceanography 10(1):14-41 (2001).
• MASON, D. M., A. Goyke, S. B. BRANDT, and J. M. Jech. Acoustic fish stock assessment in the Laurentian Great Lakes. In The Great Lakes of the World (GLOW): Food-web, Health and Integrity, M. Munawar and R.E. Hecky (Eds.), Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 317-339 (2001).
• Swihart, R. K., Z. Feng, N. A. Slade, D. M. MASON, and T. M. Gehring. Effects of habitat destruction and resource supplementation in a predator-prey metapopulation model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 210:287-303 (2001).
• Kitchell, J. F., S. P. Cox, C. J. Harvey, T. B. Johnson, D. M. MASON, K. K. Schoen, K. Aydin, C. Bronte, M. Ebener, M. Hansen, M. Hoff, S. Schram, D. Schreiner, and C. J. Walters. Sustainability of the Lake Superior fish community: Interactions in a food web context. Ecosystems 3:545-560 (2000).