Faculty

Jaye E. Cable Associate Professor Ph.D. 1996, Chemical Oceanography, Florida State University B.S. 1989, Marine Sciences, University of South Carolina

Research Interests

Isotope hydrology

aqueous geochemistry

natural radioisotopic tracer applications to environmental and ecological processes

ground water discharge to the ocean.

Recent Publications

Castro, M., C. Driscoll, T. Jordan, S. Seitzinger, W. Reay, R. Styles, W. Boynton, J.E. Cable. in press, 2000. Sources and Sinks of Nitrogen to Thirty-eight United States East and Gulf Coast Estuaries, In Assessing Relative Atmospheric Nitrogen Inputs

Schelske, C.L., M.F. Coveney, F.J. Aldridge, W.F. Kenney, and J.E. Cable. 2000. Wind or nutrients: Historic development of hypereutrophy in Lake Apopka, Florida, Archiv. fur Hydrobiologie Special Issues, Advances in Limnology, 55: 543-563.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, M.A. Lasi, J.E. Cable, and P.H. Cable. 1999. A multi-proxy trophic state reconstruction for shallow Orange Lake, Florida: possible influence of aquatic macrophytes on limnetic nutrient concentrations, Journal of Paleolimnolog

Cable, Jaye E., W.C. Burnett, and J.P. Chanton. 1997. Magnitude and variations of groundwater seepage along a Florida marine shoreline, Biogeochemistry, 38: 189-205.

Bugna, G.C., J.P. Chanton, J.E. Cable, W.C. Burnett, and P.H. Cable. 1996. The importance of groundwater discharge to the methane budgets of nearshore and continental shelf waters of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60:

Cable, Jaye E., W.C. Burnett, J.P. Chanton, and G.L. Weatherly. 1996. Estimating groundwater discharge into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using 222Rn, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 144: 591-604.

Courses Taught

OCS 7128, Wetland Hydrology and Hydrodynamics

OCS 7001, Marine Isotopic Biogeochemistry

OCS 4001, Marine Diagenetic Processes

Current Grants and Contracts

Quantification of Ground Water Discharge and Resulting Chemical Loading Using Natural Tracers: Barataria Basin, Louisiana: PIs - J.E. Cable (PI) and R.E. Turner; Louisiana Board of Regents Research Competiveness Program and LSU Match

Ecological Interactions of Surface and Subsurface Fluid Fluxes Through the Southeastern Florida Everglades: PIs - J.W. Day, E. Reyes, J.E. Cable (co-PI), D.L. Childers, and D. Rudnick; 1999-2001; South Florida Water Management District

Submarine Ground Water Discharge and Nutrient Loading to the Indian River Lagoon, Florida: PIs - J.B. Martin, J.E. Cable (co-PI), and P.W. Swarzenski; 1999-2001; St. Johns River Water Management District

PULSES - The importance of pulsed physical events for watershed sustainability in coastal Louisiana: PIs - J.W. Day, Jr., B.Fry, J.E.Cable (co-PI), D. Justic, P. Kemp, J.-Y. Ko, E.Reyes, and P. Templet; 2000-2002; EPA/NSF/USDA Water and Watersheds.

Quantifying Groundwater Input to False River, Louisiana, with Emphasis on Variability Caused by Changing Mississippi River Stage: PIs - B.M. Vosburg and J.E. Cable; 6/2000 to 9/2000; Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Undergraduate Research Opportunit

Awards

NSF/EPSCoR Travel Grant for Emerging Faculty (1999)

IGBP Land-Ocean Interface in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Travel Award (1999)

LSU Council on Research Summer Stipend Award (1998)

Contact Information

Tel: (225) 334-2390

Fax: (225) 578-6326

jcable@lsu.edu