Faculty Profiles

Fielding, R., Brown, C., Dutton, J., Forde, M., Harewood, H., Hunt, L., … Zimmerman, K. (2025). Mercury concentrations, health, and marine food consumption across four eastern Caribbean populations: Insights from a novel community-based study. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 36(1), GCFI 36-GCFI 50.

Dutton, J. (2025). Opinions related to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2025 Draft Validation Report and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Matagorda Ship Channel Improvement Project.

Parker, M., Fritts, S., Weaver, S., Meierhofer, M., & Dutton, J. (2024). Inter- and intraspecific variability of total mercury concentrations in bats of Texas (USA). Environmental Research, 259, 119570.

Dutton, J. (2023). Relationship between trace element concentrations and body length in dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(37), 87757–87767.

Dutton, J., Hobbs, J. C., Joung, S.-J., & Schmidt, J. V. (2023). Mercury concentrations in whale shark (Rhincodon typus) embryo muscle tissue. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 111, 23.

O’Shaughnessy, K. A., Vilizzi, L., Daniel, W., McGarrity, M. E., Bauer, H., Hartman, L., … Copp, G. H. (2023). Horizon scanning for potentially invasive non-native marine species to inform trans-boundary conservation management – example of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Invasions, 18(4), 415–453.

McCormack, M. A., Nowlin, W. H., & Dutton, J. (2022). Effect of trophic position on mercury concentrations in northern Gulf of Mexico bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Environmental Research, 204(Part B), 112124.

Fielding, R., Schiavone, K., & Dutton, J. (2022). Salting reduces mercury concentrations in odontocete muscle tissue. Caribbean Journal of Science, 52(1), 1–15.

McCormack, M., McFee, W., Whitehead, H., Piwetz, S., & Dutton, J. (2022). Exploring the use of non-destructive SEM-EDS analysis to measure the distribution of major, minor, and trace elements in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) teeth. Biological Trace Element Research, 200(5), 2147–2159.

Dutton, J. (2022). Request for Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Matagorda Ship Channel improvement project.

McCormack, M. A., Nowlin, W. H., & Dutton, J. (2021). Effect of trophic position on  mercury concentrations in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops trancatus) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Research, 204, 112–124.

Dutton, J. (2021). Opinions related to the Matagorda Ship Channel improvement project, Matagorda Peninsula to Point Comfort (USACE) sampling and analysis plan.

Fielding, R., Kiszka, J. J., Macdonald, C., McCormack, M. A., Dutton, J., Ollivierre, A. D., … Reid, V. (2021). Demographic and geographic patterns of cetacean-based food product consumption and potential mercury exposure within a Caribbean whaling community. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 27(6), 1671–1695.

Baptista, M., Figueiredo, C., Lopes, C., Reis Costa, P., Dutton, J., Adams, D. H., … Raimundo, J. (2020). Biotoxins, trace elements, and microplastics in ocean sunfishes (Molidae). In T. M. Thys, G. C. Hays, & J. D. R. Houghton (Eds.), The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation (pp. 186–215). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

McCormack, M. A., Jackson, B. P., & Dutton, J. (2020). Relationship between mercury and selenium concentrations in tissues from stranded odontocetes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Science of the Total Environment, 749, 141350.

Hays, G. C., Houghton, J. D. R., Thys, T. M., Adams, D. H., Ahuir-Baraja, A. E., Alvarez, J., … Ydesen, K. S. (2020). Unresolved questions about the ocean sunfishes, Molidae - a family comprising some of the world’s largest teleosts. In T. M. Thys, G. C. Hays, & J. D. R. Houghton (Eds.), The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation (pp. 280–296). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

McCormack, M. A., Jackson, B. P., & Dutton, J. (2020). Effects of formalin fixation on trace element concentrations in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) tissues. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 39(6), 1149–1164.

McCormack, M. A., Fielding, R., Kiszka, J. J., Paz, V., Jackson, B. P., Bergfelt, D. R., & Dutton, J. (2020). Mercury and selenium concentrations, and selenium:mercury molar ratios in small cetaceans taken off St. Vincent, West Indies. Environmental Research, 181, 108908.

McCormack, M. A., Battaglia, F., McFee, W. E., & Dutton, J. (2020). Mercury concentrations in blubber and skin from stranded bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) along the Florida and Louisiana coasts (Gulf of Mexico, USA) in relation to biological variables. Environmental Research, 180, 108886.

Dutton, J., & Venuti, V. M. (2019). Comparison of maternal and embryonic trace element concentrations in common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) muscle tissue. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 103, 380–384.

Dutton, J., & Gioia, K. A. (2019). Fecundity and embryonic development of spiny dogfish in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 148, 48–57.

Bakker, A. K., Dutton, J., Scalfani, M., & Santangelo, N. (2017). Accumulation of nonessential trace elements (Ag, As, Cd, Cr, Hg and Pb) in Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) early life stages. Science of the Total Environment, 596–597, 69–78.

Bakker, A. K., Dutton, J., Scalfani, M., & Santangelo, N. (2017). Maternal transfer of trace elements in the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus). Ecotoxicology, 26, 46–57.

Bakker, A. K., Dutton, J., Scalfani, M., & Santangelo, N. (2016). Environmental exposure of Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) early life stages to essential trace elements. Science of the Total Environment, 572, 804–812.

Dutton, J. (2015). Created and edited online instructional and test bank material for Enger, E.D., and B.F. Smith (2015) Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships (14th edition). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Dutton, J., & Fisher, N. S. (2014). Modeling metal bioaccumulation and tissue distribution in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) in three contaminated estuaries. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 33(1), 89–101.

Dutton, J. (2014). Created and edited online exercises using Google Earth for Cunningham, W.P., and M.A. Cunningham (2014) Principles of Environmental Science: A Global Concern (13th Edition). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Dutton, J. (2013). Created and edited online exercises using Google Earth for Cunningham, W.P., and M.A. Cunningham (2013) Principles of Environmental Science: Inquiry and Applications (7th Edition). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Dutton, J., & Fisher, N. S. (2012). Influence of humic acid on the uptake of metals by the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 31(10), 2225–2232.

Dutton, J., & Fisher, N. S. (2012). Bioavailability of sediment-bound and algal metals to killifish Fundulus heteroclitus. Aquatic Biology, 16, 85–96.

Dutton, J., & Fisher, N. S. (2011). Salinity effects on the bioavailability of aqueous metals for the estuarine killifish Fundulus heteroclitus. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 30(9), 2107–2114.

Dutton, J., & Fisher, N. S. (2011). Bioaccumulation of As, Cd, Cr, Hg(II), and MeHg in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) from amphipod and worm prey. Science of the Total Environment, 409, 3438–3447.

Dutton, J., & Fisher, N. S. (2010). Intraspecific comparisons of metal bioaccumulation in the juvenile Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia). Aquatic Biology, 10, 211–226.

Williams, J. J., Dutton, J., Chen, C. Y., & Fisher, N. S. (2010). Metal (As, Cd, Hg, and CH3Hg) bioaccumulation from water and food by the benthic amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 29(8), 1755–1761.

Fisher, N. S., Mathews, T., & Dutton, J. (2010). Dietary sources dominate metal uptake in marine fish (Vol. 39, p. 251).

McHugh, C. M. G., Seeber, L., Cormier, M.-H., Dutton, J., Cagatay, N., Polina, A., … Gorur, N. (2006). Submarine earthquake geology along the North Anatolia Fault in the Marmara Sea, Turkey: a model of transform basin sedimentation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 248, 661–684.