Joseph J. Vallino, Ph.D.

Ecosystems Center Email: jvallino@mbl.edu
Marine Biological Laboratory WWW: http://eco37.mbl.edu/
7 MBL St. (508) 289-7648
Woods Hole, MA 02543 FAX: (508) 457-1548

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
M.S. Chemical Engineering, 1985 California Institute of Technology,
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1983 University of California, Berkeley

2005-PresentAssociate Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
2004-PresentAssistant Professor (MBL) Brown University.
1997-2005Assistant Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
1997-1997 Research Associate, The Ecosystems Center
1994-1997Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Ecosystems Center
1993-1994 Lakian Postdoctoral Scholar, The Ecosystems Center.
1991-1993Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA.

Publications:

  1. Zhao,L., Chen, C., Vallino, J., Hopkinson, C., Beardsley, R.C., Lin, H., and Lerczak, J. (2010) Wetland-estuarine-shelf interactions in the Plum Island Sound and Merrimack River in the Massachusetts Coast. JGR-Oceans, in press.

  2. Vallino, J.J. (2010) Ecosystem biogeochemistry considered as a distributed metabolic network ordered by maximum entropy production. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 365, 1417-1427, doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0272

  3. Wan, Z., Vallino, J.J., and Peterson, B.J. (2008) Study of the inter-annual food web dynamics in the Kuparuk River with a first order approximation inverse model. Ecol. Model. 211 (1-2) 97-112, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.08.022

  4. Lyons, M.M., Lau, Y.-T., Carden, W.E., Ward, J.E., Roberts, S.B., Smolowitz, R., Vallino, J., Allam, B. (2007) Characteristics of marine aggregates in shallow-water ecosystems: Implications for disease ecology. EcoHealth 4 (4) 406-420, doi: 10.1007/s10393-007-0134-0

  5. Deegan,L.A., Bowen,J.L., Drake,D., Fleeger,J.W., Friedrichs,C.T., Kari,A., Hobbie,J.E., Hopkinson,C., Johnson,D.S., Johnson,J.M., LeMay,L.E., Miller,E., Peterson,B.J., Picard,C., Sheldon,S., Sutherland,M., Vallino,J., and Warren,R.S. (2007) Susceptibility of salt marshes to nutrient enrichment and predator removal. Ecological Applications 17 (sp5) S42-S63.

  6. Claessens, L., Hopkinson Jr, C.,Rastetter, E. and Vallino, J. (2006). Effect of historical changes in land-use and climate on the water budget of an urbanizing watershed. Water Resources Research, 42 (3), W03426, doi:10.1029/2005WR004131

  7. Wan, Z., Vallino, J.J. (2005). An inverse ecosystem model of year-to-year variations with first order approximation to the annual mean fluxes. Ecol. Model., 187 (4), 369-388.

  8. Vallino, J.J., Hopkinson, C.S., and Garritt, R.H. (2005). Estimating estuarine gross production, community respiration and net ecosystem production: A nonlinear inverse technique. Ecol. Model.,187 (2-3), 281-296.

  9. Williams, M., Hopkinson, C., Rastetter, E., Vallino, J. and Claessens, L. (2005). Relationships of land use and stream solute concentrations in the Ipswich River basin, Northeastern Massachusetts. Water, Air and Soil Pollution., 161 (1-4), 55-74.

  10. Hopkinson, C.S. and Vallino, J.J. (2005). Efficient export of carbon to the deep ocean through dissolved organic matter. Nature, 433, 142-145.

  11. Filoso, S., Vallino, J., Hopkinson, C., Rastetter, E. and Claessens, L. (2004). Modeling Nitrogen Transport in the Ipswich River Basin, Massachusetts, using HSPF. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 40 (5), 1365-1384.

  12. Williams, M., Hopkinson, C., Rastetter, E., Vallino, J. (2004). N Budgets and Aquatic Uptake in the Ipswich River Basin, Northeastern Massachusetts. Water Resources Research, 40 (11), W11201, 12 pp.

  13. Tobias, C.R., Cieri, M., Peterson, B.J. Deegan, L.A., Vallino, J. and Hughes, J. (2003). Processing watershed-derived nitrogen in a well-flushed New England estuary. Limnol. Oceanogr., 48, 1766-1778.

  14. Vallino, J.J. (2003). Modeling microbial consortiums as distributed metabolic networks. Biol. Bull. 204, 174-179.

  15. Giblin, A.E., and Vallino, J.. (2003). The role of models in addressing coastal eutrophication problems. In: Canham, C. D., J. J. Cole, and W. K. Lauenroth (eds), The Role of Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton University Press, 327-343.

  16. Hopkinson, C.S., Vallino, J.J. and Nolin, A. (2002). Decomposition of dissolved organic matter from the continental margin. Deep-Sea Res. II 49, 4461-4478.

  17. Vallino, J.J. (2000). Improving marine ecosystem models: use of data assimilation and mesocosm experiments. J. Mar. Res. 58, 117-164.

  18. Vallino, J.J. and Stephanopoulos, G. (2000). Metabolic Flux distributions in Corynebacterium glutamicum during growth and lysine overproduction. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 67, 872-885. (Republication of Vallino1993)

  19. Vallino, J.J. and Hopkinson, C.S. (1998). Estimation of Dispersion and Characteristic Mixing Times in Plum Island Sound Estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 46, 333-350.

  20. Hopkinson, C.S, Buffam, I., Hobbie, J., Vallino, J., Perdue, M., Eversmeyer, B., Prahl, F., Covert, J., Hodson, R., Moran, M.A., Smith, E., Baross, J., Crump, B., Findlay, S., and Foreman, D. (1998). Terrestrial inputs of organic matter to coastal ecosystems: an intercomparison of chemical characteristics and bioavailability. Biogeochemistry 43, 211-234.

  21. Jay, D.A., Uncles, R.J., Largier, J., Geyer, W.R., Vallino, J., and Boynton, W.R. (1997). A Review of Recent Developments in Estuarine Scalar Flux Estimation. Estuaries 20, 262-280.

  22. Vallino, J.J., Hopkinson, C.S., and Hobbie, J.E. (1996). Modeling Bacterial Utilization of Dissolved Organic Matter: Optimization Replaces Monod Growth Kinetics. Limnology and Oceanography 41, 1591-1609.

  23. Hopkinson, C.S. and Vallino, J.J. (1995). The Relationship Between Man's Activities in Watersheds and Rivers and Patterns of Estuarine Community Metabolism. Estuaries 18, 598-621.

  24. Hopkinson, C.S. and Vallino, J.J. (1994). Toward the Development of Generally Applicable Models of the Microbial Loop in Aquatic Ecosystems. Microb. Ecol. 28, 321-326.

  25. Vallino, J.J. and Stephanopoulos, G. (1994). Carbon Flux Distributions at the Pyruvate Branch Point in Corynebacterium glutamicum during Lysine Overproduction. Biotech. Prog. 10, 320-326.

  26. Vallino, J.J. and Stephanopoulos, G. (1994). Carbon Flux Distributions at the Glucose 6-Phosphate Branch Point in Corynebacterium glutamicum during Lysine Overproduction. Biotech. Prog. 10, 327-334.

  27. Wikner, J., Vallino, J.J., Steward, G., Smith, D., and Azam, F. (1993). Nucleic acids from the host bacterium as a major source of nucleotides for three marine bacteriophages. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 12, 237-248.

  28. Vallino, J.J. and Stephanopoulos, G. (1993). Metabolic Flux distributions in Corynebacterium glutamicum during growth and lysine overproduction. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 41, 633-646.

  29. Stephanopoulos, G. and Vallino, J.J. (1991). Network rigidity and metabolic engineering in metabolite overproduction. Science 252, 1675-1681.

  30. Vallino, J.J. and Stephanopoulos, G. (1990). Intracellular flux analysis as means of identifying limiting nodes in amino acid fermentations. In: Proc. - Eur. Congr. Biotechnol., 5th, Vol. 2., Christiansen, C., Munck, L., Villadsen, J. (Eds.), Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Den. 1063-1066.

  31. Vallino, J.J. and Stephanopoulos, G. (1990). Flux determinations in cellular bioreaction networks: applications to lysine fermentations. In: Frontiers in Bioprocessing. Sikdar, S. K., Todd, P. W., and Bier, M. (Eds.), CRC Press, Florida, pp. 205-219.

  32. Vallino, J.J. and Stephanopoulos, G. (1987). Intelligent sensors in biotechnology: applications for the monitoring of fermentations and cellular metabolism. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 506, 415-430.

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