Maryann McEnroe

Eco-physiology of fish; including respiratory and behavioral adaptations of fishes to hypoxia. Effects of stressors, on marine organisms and communities. Hemoglobin-oxygen affinity in fishes. Sturgeon biology, osmoregulation and endocrinology.

Animal Physiology

Animal Physiology Laboratory

Vertebrate Zoology & Laboratory

Biology Junior Seminar

 Haller, L.Y., Hung, S.O., Lee, S., Fadel, J.G., Lee, J.-H., McEnroe, M., and N.A. Fangue. 2015. The effect of nutritional status on the osmoregulation of green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Vol 88 (1): 22-42.

Lopez, G., Cary, D., Carlton, J., Cerrato, R., Dam, H., DiGiovanni, R., Elphick, C., Frisk, M., Gobler, C., Hice, L., Howell, P., Jordaan, A., Lin, S., Liu, S., Lonsdale, D., McEnroe, M., McKown, K., McManus, G., Orson, R., Peterson, B., Pickerell, C., Rozsa, R., Siuda, A., Thomas, E., Taylor, G., Shumway, S., Talmage, S., Van Patten, M., Vaudrey, J., Wikfors, G., Yarish, C., and R. Zajac. 2014. Biology and Ecology of Long Island Sound. Pp. 285-479 In Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea, Springer Series on Environmental Management. J. S. Latimer, M. A. Tedesco, R. L. Swanson, C. Yarish, P.E. Stacey, and C. Garza. (eds.).

Allen, P.J., McEnroe, M., Forostyan*, T., Cole, S., Nicholl, M.M., Hodge, B. and J. J. Cech, Jr. 2011. Ontogeny of salinity tolerance in juvenile green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris.  J. Comparative Physiology B. DOI10.1007/500360-011-0592-0, June 2011.

Forostyan, T., and M. McEnroe. 2008. Apoptotic Intra- and Intercellular Reorganization of Epithelium during Cell Turnover in Gills of Juvenile Green Sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris. Abst. Annual Meeting, American Soc. Cell Biology (ASCB), San Francisco, CA., Dec. 2008.

 Cech, J.J., Jr., McEnroe, M. and D.R. Randall. 2004. Effects of strenuous swimming on Coho salmon. Journal of Fish Biology 65:1223-1232.

Cech, J.J. Jr, McEnroe, M., and D.J. Randall. 1996. Coho salmon swimming: physiological effects. pp. 109-117 In: Applied Environmental Physiology of Fishes, Symposium Proceedings, 2nd International Congress of Fish Biology (eds: Swanson, C., Young, P, and D. Mackinley), San Francisco, CA, July, 1996.

McEnroe, M. and J. Marshall*. 1995. Salinity tolerance and development of chloride cells in juvenile white sturgeon: possible implications for water diversions. The Sturgeon Quarterly: 3 (3) 11.

McEnroe, M. and J.J. Cech. 1995. Seasonal cycle of the thyroid hormones, T3 and T4, in juvenile white sturgeon. The Sturgeon Quarterly: 3 (2) 11.

Cech, J.J., Mitchell, S.J., Castleberry, D.T. and M. McEnroe. 1993. Effects of hypoxia on fish. pp. 53-58. In: Russo, R. and Thurston,V. (eds). Fish Physiology, Toxicology, and Water Quality, Proceedings of International Symposium on Fish Physiology and Toxicology, Sacramento, CA. Sept. 18-20, 1993. US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA 600/R-93/157 (NTIS PB 94159126, 1993).

McEnroe, M. 1992. Review of Physiological Effects of Hypoxia on the Forage-base Organisms of the Sound. Report to EPA’s Long Island Sound Study, 94 pp.

Woodhead, P.M.J. and M. McEnroe. 1992. Effects of Hypoxia on Estuarine Communities. Report EPA’s Long Island Sound Study, 76 pp.

Woodhead, P.M.J. and M. McEnroe. 1992. Estimation of Benefits to Attaining State Water Quality Standards for Dissolved Oxygen. Report to EPA’s Long Island Sound Study, 37 pp.

McEnroe, M. and P.M.J. Woodhead.1991. Fisheries of the Estuary: Status, trends and change. Report to EPA’s NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program, 39 pp.

Woodhead, P.M.J. and M. McEnroe. 1991. Habitat use by the finfish community. Report to the EPA’s NY-NJ Harbor EstuaryProgram,50pp.

Cech, J.J. Jr, Mitchell, S.J., Castleberry, D.T. and M. McEnroe. 1990. Distribution of California Stream Fishes: influences of Environmental Temperature and Hypoxia. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 29:95-105.

McEnroe, M. and J.J. Cech, Jr. 1987. Osmoregulation in sturgeon: Life history aspects. In “Common Strategies of Anadromous and Catadromous Fishes”, American Fisheries Society. American Fisheries Society Symposium. 1:191-196.

McEnroe, M. and J.J. Cech. 1985. Osmoregulation in juvenile and adult white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 14 (1):23-30.

Nikinmaa, M., Cech, J.J., Jr. and M. McEnroe. 1984. Blood oxygen transport in stressed striped bass (Morone saxatilis): role of beta-adrenergic responses. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 154:365-369.

Sawyer, W.H., Pang, P.K.T., Seto, J., McEnroe, M., Lammek, B., and M. Manning. 1981. Vasopressin analogs that antagonize antidiuretic responses by rats to the antidiuretic hormone. Science. 212:49-51.

McEnroe, W.D. and M.A. McEnroe. 1973. Questing behavior in the adult American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis Say (Acarina: Ixodidae). Acarologia. 15:37-42.

Other Projects in Aquatic Biology & Environmental Law

Natural Resource Trustees of the State of NJ and the US Department of Justice. Regarding the effects of an oil spill on the marine community of the Arthur Kill and adjacent waters of the New York NJ Harbor, with P. Woodhead, SUNY Stony Brook

Metro-North Railroad. Potential effects of bridge construction on Hudson River fishes, with P. Woodhead SUNY Stony Brook

The Public Development Corporation of New York City (PDC). Potential effects of development along Manhattan shoreline on fish, and possible mitigation by artificial reef structures, with P. Woodhead SUNY Stony Brook

Empire State Development Authority. Regarding placement of an artificial reef in New York Harbor to enhance habitat for the fish community, with P. Woodhead SUNY Stony Brook.