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James A. Nienow Portrait

James A. Nienow

Professor

  • Ph.D., Biology
    Florida State University
  • M.S., Mathematics
    University of California at San Diego

Teaching Interests

  • Phycology
  • Limnology
  • Microbiology
  • Introductory Biology

 Research Interests

  • Ecophysiology of Terrestrial Microalgae
  • Ecology of Marina and Freshwater Phytoplankton and Phototrophic Bacteria
  • Systematics of Diatoms

Selected Publications

  1. Bielmyer Fraser, G. K., J.M. Courville, K. Bowers, S. O’Keefe, S. Paulsen, L. Stoeber, M. Wise, A. C. Ryan, & J.A. Nienow. 2025. Temporal and Spatial Changes in Water Quality and Phytoplankton Populations in the Lower St. Johns River, Florida. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 89:61-77.
  2. Manning, T., Livingston, T., Persaud, C., Patel, A. & Nienow, J. 2024. Molecular building blocks and nutrients as a novel cancer treatment. Invention Disclosure 4(25):100021.
  3. Cahoon, A.B., Johnson, K., Brown, S., Manoylov, K.M. & Nienow, J.A. 2024. The chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of two Gomphonema parvulum (Bacillariophyta) environmental isolates from South Carolina (USA) and Virginia (USA). Journal of Phycology 60:299-307.
  4. Nienow, J. A. & Prasad, A. K. S. K. Diatoms of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Vallithidium (Achnanthales: Achnanthidiaceae), a new monoraphid genus based on Navicula marginulata Cleve. Diatom Research 38:143-163.  https://doi.org/10.1080/0269249X.2023.2267049 
  5. Nienow, J. A. & A. K. S. K. Prasad. 2021. Diatoms of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Light and electron microscope observations of Sulcatonitzschia, a new genus of nitzschioid diatoms (Bacillariales: Bacillariaceae) with a transverse sulcus. Gulf and Caribbean Research 32 (1): 34-45.
  6. Nienow James A. 2019. Extremophiles: Dry Environments (Including Cryptoendoliths). In: Schmidt, T. M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 4th Edition. vol. 2, pp. 239-262. UK: Elsevier. dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.13046-8
  7. Cantonwine, E., J. Nienow, M. Blackmore, B. Griffin, B. Bergstrom, D. Bechler, T. Henkel, C. A. Slaton, J. Adams, A. Grupe, M. Hodges, & G. Lee. 2019. Results of a Fall and Spring BioBlitz at Grassy Pond Recreational Area, Lowndes County, 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站. 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站 Journal of Science 77(2): article 17.
  8. Gould, M. K., A. J. Nienow, A. V. F. Nienow, & J. A. Nienow. 2019. Short term effects of Hurricane Irma on the phytoplankton of Lake Louise, 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站, USA. 蜜桃影像传媒有限公司网站 Journal of Science 77(2): article 14. .
  9. Crowell, R. M., J. A. Nienow, & A. B. Cahoon. 2019. The complete chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of the diatom, Nitzschia palea (Bacillariophyceae) demonstrates high endosymbiont organellar sequence conservation to the dinotom, Durinskia baltica. Journal of Phycology 55:352-364. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12824
  10. Prasad, A. K. S. K., J. A. Nienow, & E. Lochner. 2018. Thalassiosira mala (Bacillariophyta), a potentially harmful, marine diatom from Chilka Lake and other coastal localities of Odisha, India: Nomenclature, frustule morphology and global biogeography. Journal of Bioscience 43:59-74. DOI:10.1007/s12038-018-9730-0
  11. Nienow, J. A., R. A. Snyder, W. H. Jeffrey, & S. Wise. 2017. Fine structure and ecology of Nanoneis longta in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico with a revised definition of the species. Diatom Research 32:43-58. DOI: 10.1080/0269249X.2016.1268978.
  12. Wierzchos, K., J. C. Cancilla, J. S. Torrecilla, P. Diaz-Rodriguez, A. F., Davila, C. Ascaso, J. Nienow, C. P. McKay, & J. Wierzchos. Application of artificial neural networks as a tool for moisture prediction in microbial colonized halite in the Atacama Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120, doi:10.1002/2014JG002837.
  13. Sun, H. J., J. A. Nienow, G. Zhang, D. P. Moser, C. P. McKay. 2015. Endolithic cyanobacteria in the Mojave Desert: a cold habitat in a hot desert? Mojave National Preserve Science Newsletter April 2015: 18-20.

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