Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Jessica Dutton

  • Associate Professor at Biology, College of Science & Engineering

Grants

2025

  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Trace element concentrations in sediment from the Alcoa (Point Comfort)/Lavaca Bay Superfund site, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $425289. (Submitted: October 2024, Funded: March 1, 2025 - February 28, 2028). Grant.

2024

  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Blasingame, Dale C (Co-Principal), Shields, Sara Michelle (Co-Principal). Mercury exposure through seafood consumption in the Matagorda Bay system: human health study and public education, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $474900. (Submitted: October 2023, Funded: June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2027). Grant.
  • Liu, Zhanfei (Co-Principal), Lu, Kaijun (Co-Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal). Resuspension of contaminants in Matagorda Bay due to storms, ship traffic, and dredging activities, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $433113. (Submitted: October 2023, Funded: June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2027). Grant.

2023

  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Prothro, Lindsay (Co-Principal). Sediment mercury concentrations in the Closed Area of Lavaca Bay and the risk to wildlife from mercury remobilization during dredging, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $497818. (Submitted: October 2022, Funded: March 1, 2023 - February 28, 2026). Grant.

2022

  • McFee, Wayne (Principal), Morton, Steven (Co-Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal), Piwetz, Sarah (Co-Principal), Vazquez, Gabrielle (Co-Principal), Lovewell, Gretchen (Co-Principal). Innovative use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) to detect oil signatures in teeth of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), NOAA, Federal, $85490. (Funded: 2022 - 2024). Grant.
  • Rhodes, Christopher (Principal), Martin, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Schilter, David (Co-Principal), Kerwin, Sean (Co-Principal), Kornienko, Alexander (Co-Principal), Peterson, Ryan (Co-Principal), Schwartz, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal), Ikehata, Keisuke (Co-Principal), Hwang, San (Co-Principal), Ozbakkaloglu, Togay (Co-Principal). Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Shared Research and Education Instrument., Texas State University Materials Application Research Center (MARC) Instrumentation Grant, Texas State University, $259195. (Funded: October 2022 - March 2023). Grant.
  • Banks, Kesley (Principal), Streich, Matthew (Co-Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal). Trophic linkages and habitat connectivity of popular sportfish in the Matagorda Bay system, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $399932. (Funded: March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2026). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Blasingame, Dale C (Co-Principal), Shields, Sara Michelle (Co-Principal). Relationship between mercury and selenium concentrations in Texas offshore and bay fishes: risk assessment and health education, Texas Sea Grant, State, $190902. (Funded: February 1, 2022 - January 31, 2026). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Study in America Program Development Grant to create a marine ecology field course in South Florida, Texas State University, $3088. (Funded: January 2022 - June 2022). Grant.

2021

  • Conkle, Jeremy (Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal). Mercury and plastic in commercial and recreational fisheries in Lavaca, Matagorda, and San Antonio Bays: risk assessment and interaction between the two contaminants, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $499917. (Funded: March 1, 2021 - August 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Does selenium protect shark embryos against mercury toxicity?, Texas State University Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: January 2021 - May 2022). Grant.

2020

  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Nowlin, Weston Hugh (Co-Principal). Intra- and interspecies variability in mercury accumulation in young-of-the-year and juvenile sharks, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, State, $99964. (Funded: September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Selenium:mercury molar ratios in Texas offshore fishes, Texas Sea Grant, State, $9755. (Funded: June 15, 2020 - January 31, 2021). Grant.

2018

  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Study in America Program Development Grant to create a natural history and marine ecology course in Alaska, Texas State University, $4322. (Funded: June 2018 - July 2019). Grant.
  • Browne, Jim (Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal). The transfer of Hg, Pb, and other trace elements through the estuarine food web in the SSER, NY State, Office of Planning and Development, State, $48598. (Funded: June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2022). Grant.

2016

  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Schwalb, Astrid Nadine (Co-Principal). The impact of environmental contaminants on Texas unionid mussels in the Guadalupe basin, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, State, $81915. (Funded: September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2021). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Bonner, Timothy H (Co-Principal). Mercury levels in fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico and the risk to human health, Texas State University Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: January 1, 2016 - May 31, 2017). Grant.

2015

  • Santangelo, Nicholas (Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal), Bakker, Aaron (Co-Principal). Monitoring metal contamination in a pharmaceutically valuable species and its use as a bioindicator for human recreational environments, Wilderness Medical Society, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $10000. (Funded: 2015 - 2016). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Metal accumulation in horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) on Long Island due to maternal transfer and exposure to contaminated sediment, Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $4500. (Funded: 2015 - 2016). Grant.

2013

  • Christensen, Beth A (Principal), McHugh, Cecilia M (Co-Principal), Flood, Roger D (Co-Principal), Brownawell, Bruce (Co-Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal), O'Connell, Christine (Co-Principal). Rapid Grant: Collaborative investigations of the impact of Superstorm Sandy on the south shore of Long Island, National Science Foundation, Federal, $70975. (Funded: 2013 - 2014). Grant.
  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Metal levels in shark fin soup and the risk to human health, Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $4270. (Funded: 2013 - 2014). Grant.

2012

  • Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Investigating metal concentrations through a four-step aquatic food chain on Long Island’s South Shore, Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $2500. (Funded: 2012 - 2013). Grant.