Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Ganju, N.K., and Sherwood, C.R., in review, Effect of roughness formulation on the performance of a coupled wave, hydrodynamic, and sediment transport model. Submitted to Ocean Modelling.

Ganju, N.K., and Schoellhamer, D.H., in press, Decadal-timescale estuarine geomorphic change under future scenarios of climate and sediment supply. Estuaries and Coasts.

Ganju, N.K., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Jaffe, B.E., in press, Hindcasting of decadal-timescale estuarine bathymetric change with a tidal-timescale model. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface.

David, N., McKee, L.J., Black, F., Flegal, A.R., Conaway, C.H., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Ganju, N.K., 2009, Mercury concentrations and loads in a large river system tributary to San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 28, 2091-2100. 
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Ganju, N.K., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2009, Calibration of an estuarine sediment transport model to sediment fluxes as an intermediate step for robust simulation of geomorphic evolution. Continental Shelf Research, 29, 148-158. 
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Downing, B.D., Boss, E., Bergamaschi, B.A., Fleck, J.A., Lionberger, M.A., Ganju, N.K., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Fujii, R., 2009, Quantifying fluxes and characterizing compositional changes of dissolved organic matter in aquatic systems in situ using combined acoustic and optical measurements. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 7, 119-131.
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Ganju, N.K, Knowles, N., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2008, Temporal downscaling of decadal sediment load estimates to a daily interval for use in hindcast simulations. Journal of Hydrology, 349, 512-523.
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Ganju, N.K., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2008, Lateral variability of the estuarine turbidity maximum in a tidal strait. In: Kusuda, T., Yamanishi, H., Spearman, J., and Gailani, J.Z., Eds., Sediment and Ecohydraulics: INTERCOH 2005, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 339-355.

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Schoellhamer, D.H., Ganju, N.K., Mineart, P.R., and Lionberger, M.A., 2008, Sensitivity and spin up times of cohesive sediment transport models used to simulate bathymetric change. In: Kusuda, T., Yamanishi, H., Spearman, J., and Gailani, J.Z., Eds., Sediment and Ecohydraulics: INTERCOH 2005, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 463-475.

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Gartner, J.W., and Ganju, N.K., 2007, Discharge measurements by acoustic Doppler current meter without global positioning during the 2004 Glen Canyon Dam Controlled Flood Release on the Colorado River. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 5, 156-162.
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Ganju, N.K., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2006, Annual sediment flux estimates in a tidal strait using surrogate measurements. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 69, 165-178.
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Ganju, N.K., Schoellhamer, D.H., Murrell, M.C., Gartner, J.W., and Wright, S.A., 2006, Constancy of the relation between floc size and density in San Francisco Bay. In: Maa, J.P., Sanford, L.H., and Schoellhamer, D.H., Eds., Estuarine and Coastal Fine Sediment Dynamics - INTERCOH 2003, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, p. 75-91. 
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McKee, L., Ganju, N.K., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2006, Estimates of suspended sediment entering San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta, San Francisco Bay, California. Journal of Hydrology, 323, 335-352.
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Ganju, N.K., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Bergamaschi, B.A, 2005, Suspended sediment fluxes in a tidal wetland: measurement, controlling factors, and error analysis. Estuaries 28(6), 812-822.
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Ganju, N.K., Schoellhamer, D.H., Warner, J.C., Barad, M.F., and Schladow, S.G., 2004, Tidal oscillation of sediment between a river and a bay: a conceptual model. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 60(1), 81-90.
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Jiang, J., Ganju, N.K., and Mehta, A.J., 2004, Estimation of contraction scour in riverbed using SERF. ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 130(4), 215-218.
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Mou, C., Ganju, N., Sridhar, K.S., and Krishan, A., 1997, Simultaneous quantitation of plasma doxorubicin and prochlorperazine content by high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography B, 703, 217-224.

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Technical reports (USGS and non-USGS)

Buchanan, P.A., and Ganju, N.K., various, Summary of suspended-sediment concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 2000-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report.
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Ganju, N.K., Barry, K.M, and Mehta, A.J., 2000. Performance report on the simulator of erosion rate function, University of Florida Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, report #UFL/COEL-2000/011

Ganju, N.K., Mehta, A.J., Parshukov, L.N., and Krone, R.B., 2001, Loxahatchee River, Florida central embayment: sediment budget and trap evaluations, University of Florida Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, report #UFL/COEL-2001/008

Leatherbarrow, J.E., McKee, L.J., Schoellhamer, D.H., Ganju, N.K., and Flegal, A.R., 2005. Concentrations and loads of organic contaminants and mercury associated with suspended sediment discharged to San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California. Report prepared for the Sources Pathways and Loading Workgroup of Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances in the San Francisco Estuary, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California, 93 p.

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McKee, L., Ganju, N., Schoellhamer, D., Davis, J., Yee, D., Leatherbarrow, J., and Hoenicke, R., 2002, Estimates of suspended sediment flux entering San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta: Report prepared for the Sources Pathways and Loading Workgroup of Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances in the San Francisco Estuary, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California, 28 p.
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Schoellhamer, D.H., Lionberger, M.A., Jaffe, B.E., Ganju, N.K., Wright, S.A., and Shellenbarger, G.G., 2005, Bay Sediment Budgets: Sediment Accounting 101: The Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring and Managing Contamination in the San Francisco Estuary, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California.

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Schoellhamer, D.H., Shellenbarger, G.G., Ganju, N.K., Davis, J.A., and McKee, L.J., 2003, Sediment dynamics drive contaminant dynamics: The Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring and Managing Contamination in the San Francisco Estuary, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California, p. 21-26.
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Conference papers

Gartner, J. W., and Ganju, N. K., 2002, A preliminary evaluation of near-transducer velocities collected with low-blank acoustic Doppler current profiler: Proceedings, ASCE 2002 Hydraulic Measurements and Experimental Methods Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, July 28 - August 1, 2002.
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Schoellhamer, D.H., Buchanan, P.A., and Ganju, N.K., 2002, Ten years of continuous suspended-sediment concentration monitoring in San Francisco Bay and Delta: Proceedings of the Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates Workshop, Reno, Nevada, April 30 - May 2, 2002.
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Conference abstracts

Bergamaschi, B.A., Downing, B.D., Wheeler, G.A., Schoellhamer, D.H., Ganju, N., Fram, M.S., Erickson, D.E., Kendall, C., Bemis, B.E., Stepanauskas, R., Hollibaugh, J.T., and Fujii, R., 2003, Quantifying the contributions of tidal wetlands to dissolved organic material in the San Francisco Estuary, California, USA: Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, Seattle, Washington, September 14-18, 2003, p. 13.
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Downing, B., Wheeler, G., Emerson, S., Ganju, N., and Bergamaschi, B., 2003, Continuous, real-time optical measurement of DOC fluxes in a tidal wetland: Proceedings of the 6th biennial State-of-the-Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, October 21-23, 2003, p. 73.

Fujii. R., Bergamaschi, B.A., Ganju, N.K., Fleck, J.A., Burow-Fogg, K.R., Schoellhamer, D., Deverel, S.J., 2003, Preliminary Assessment of DOC and THM Precursor Loads from a Freshwater Restored Wetland, an Agricultural Field, and a Tidal Wetland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta: Proceedings of the 2003 CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, California, January 14-16, 2003, p. 206.
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Lionberger, M.A., Ganju, N.K., Schoellhamer, D.H., Downing, B.D., Bergamaschi, B.A., and Wheeler, G.A., Wetland fluxes of dissolved organic carbon and sediment at Browns Island, California: balancing the water budget: abstract for the 2004 CALFED Science Conference.

Swanson, K., Shellenbarger, G.G., Schoellhamer, D.H., Ganju, N. K., Athearn, N., and Buchanan, P., 2003, Desalinization, erosion, and tidal changes following the breaching of Napa salt pond 3: Proceedings of the 6th biennial State-of-the-Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, October 21-23, 2003, p. 156. 

Takekawa, J., Demers, S., Woo, I., Athearn, N., Ganju, N., Shellenbarger, G., Schoellhamer, D., and Perry, W.M., 2003, A bathymetry system for measuring sediment accumulation in tidal marsh restoration projects: Proceedings of the 6th biennial State-of-the-Estuary Conference, Oakland, California, October 21-23, 2003, p. 157.

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