• Research Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Marine Science
• Director, UNH Center for Marine Biology

Research

My main focuses of research are: 1) ribotyping Escherichia coli to identify sources of fecal contamination in surface waters; 2) microbial cycling of mercury in estuarine and marine environments; 3) monitoring for toxic chemicals in the marine environment; 4) stormwater-related pollution of estuarine waters. I have many different projects that make up my research program, the majority of which are related to these 4 topic areas.

Some of the new areas I've pursued in research are:

• Using DGGE to analyze bacterial communities in natural environments (oysters, depurated and undepurated)
• Field evaluation of a stormwater treatment technology for removal of bacterial contaminants
• Evaluating the microbial and nutrient composition and fate of effluent from municipal wastewater treatment facilities

Graduate Students

Selected Publications

Jones, S.H. and M. Alexander. 1986. Kinetics of mineralization of phenols in lakewater. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 51:891-897.

Wiggins, B.A., S.H. Jones, and M. Alexander. 1987. Explanations for the acclimation period prior to the mineralization of organic chemicals in aquatic environments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53:791-196.

Jones, S.H. and M. Alexander. 1988. Phosphorus enhancement of mineralization of low concentrations of p-nitrophenol by Flavobacterium sp. in lake water. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 52:121-126.

Jones, S.H. and M. Alexander. 1988. Effect of inorganic nutrients on the acclimation period preceeding mineralization of organic chemicals in lake water. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 54:3177-3179.

O'Neill, K.R., S.H. Jones, and D.J. Grimes. 1990. Incidence of Vibrio vulnificus in northern New England water and shellfish. FEMS. Microbiol. Lett. 72: 163-168.

Jones, S.H., K.R. O'Neill, and T.L. Howell. 1991. Differential elimination of indicator bacteria and pathogenic Vibrio sp. from Maine oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in a commercial controlled purification facility. J. Shellfish Res. 10: 105-112.

O'Neill, K.R., S.H. Jones, and D.J. Grimes. 1992. The seasonal incidence of Vibrio vulnificus in the Great Bay Estuary of New Hampshire and Maine . Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58: 3257-3262.

Weber, J.C., M.E. Hines, S.H. Jones and J.H. Weber. 1995. Interactions of tin (IV) and monomethyltin cation in estuarine water-sediment slurries from the Great Bay Estuary , New Hampshire , USA . Appl. Organomet. Chem. 9: 581-590.

Howell, T.L., Jones, S.H. and G.C. Nardi. 1995. Development of a HACCP-based program for a private shellfish purification facility, p. 207-213. In R. Poggi and J.-Y. Le Gall (ed.), Shellfish Depuration: 2nd International Conference on Shellfish Depuration. IFREMER, Brest , France.

Weber, J.H., R. Evans, S.H. Jones and M.E. Hines. 1998. Conversion of mercury (II) into mercury (0), monomethylmercury cation, and diemthylmercury in saltmarsh sediment slurries. Chemosphere 36: 1669-1687.

Jones, S.H. and B.W. Summer-Brason. 1999. Incidence and detection of pathogenic Vibrio sp. in a northern New England estuary, USA . J. Shellfish Res. 17: 1665-1669.

Jones, S.H., M. Chase, J. Sowles, P. Hennigar, N. Landry, P.G. Wells, G.C.H. Harding, C. Krahforst and G.L. Brun. 2001. Monitoring for toxic contaminants in Mytilus edulis from New Hampshire and the Gulf of Maine. J. Shellfish Res. 20: 1203-1214.

Chase, M. E., S.H. Jones, P. Hennigar, J. Sowles, G.C.H. Harding, K. Freeman, P.G. Wells, C. Krahforst, K. Coombes, R. Crawford, J. Pederson and D. Taylor. 2001. Gulfwatch: Monitoring Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Trace Metal and Organic Contaminants in the Gulf of Maine (1991-1997) with the Blue Mussel, Mytilus edulis L. Mar. Poll. Bull. 42: 490-504.

Jones, S.H. 2001. A Technical Characterization of Estuarine and Coastal New Hampshire . The New Hampshire Estuaries Project, Portsmouth , NH .

Eddy , S.D. and S. H. Jones. 2002. Microbiology of summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus fingerling production at a marine fish hatchery. Aquaculture 211: 9-28.

Education

Selected Service Activities

• University Research Advisory Board
• University Marine Program Executive Committee
• NH Estuaries Project Monitoring Program Technical Advisory Committee, Chair
• Environmental Quality Monitoring Committee, Co-Chair, Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
• Technical Advisory Board, Great Bay Coast Watch