My current research interests include the ecology of marine and freshwater phytoplankton and zooplankton, the causes and effects of eutrophication, the impacts of urban pollution, land use and how it affects water quality, and environmental management issues. I serve as the Research Coordinator for the Lower Cape Fear River Program, the Wilmington Watersheds Program, and the award-winning New Hanover County Tidal Creeks Program. In my research I collaborate with biologists, chemists, engineers and land use planners. My publications include studies on factors influencing bacterial contamination of coastal and inland waters, pollution from industrial scale swine and poultry farms, the nutrient and plankton ecology of the coastal ocean, the effects of weather on ecosystems, nutrient sensitivity of streams, rivers, and estuaries, and the environmental quality of urban and rural watersheds.

Selected Bibliography (from approximately 160 total publications)

Mallin, M.A. and C.A. Corbett. 2006. Multiple hurricanes and different coastal systems: How hurricane attributes determine the extent of environmental impacts. Estuaries and Coasts 29:1046-1061.

Mallin, M.A., V.L. Johnson, S.H. Ensign and T.A. MacPherson. 2006. Factors contributing to hypoxia in rivers, lakes and streams. Limnology and Oceanography 51:690-701.

Mallin, M.A. 2006. Wading in waste. Scientific American 294:52-59.

Mallin, M.A., M.R. McIver, S.H. Ensign and L.B. Cahoon. 2004. Photosynthetic and heterotrophic impacts of nutrient loading to blackwater streams. Ecological Applications 14:823-838.

Mallin, M.A., K.E. Williams, E.C. Esham and R.P. Lowe. 2000. Effect of human development on bacteriological water quality in coastal watersheds. Ecological Applications 10:1047-1056.

Mallin, M.A. 2000. Impacts of industrial-scale swine and poultry production on rivers and estuaries. American Scientist 88:26-37.