Professor
Phone:  973-596-8467
Email: jacksonn@njit.edu
Dept:  Chemistry and Environmental Science
Room:  126, York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science
Website:  http://web.njit.edu/~jacksonn

Education

PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
MSc, Antioch/New England Graduate School
BA, Clark University

Research Interest

My research can be broadly categorized into three areas.  The first area focuses on beach processes and management in estuarine and sheltered coastal systems. A second area of interest is aeolian sediment transport across beaches. This area has expanded to sediment transport within dunes.  A third area, that is a component of all of my research endeavors, focuses on coastal management including the effects of shore protection strategies on beach and dune environments.

Selected Publications

Jackson, N.L., D.R. Smith, and K.F. Nordstrom. 2008 “Physical and chemical changes in the foreshore of an estuarine beach: implications for viability and development of horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) eggs”. Marine Ecology Progress Series 355: 209-218.

Nordstrom, K.F., R. Lampe, and N.L. Jackson. 2007. “Increasing the dynamism of coastal landforms by modifying shore protection methods: Examples from the eastern German Baltic Sea Coast”. Environmental Conservation. 34: 205-214.

Jackson, N.L., D.R. Smith, R. Tiyarattanachi, and K.F. Nordstrom. 2007. “Use of a small beach nourishment project to enhance habitat suitability for horseshoe crabs”. Geomorphology 89: 172-185.

Nordstrom, K.F., N.L. Jackson, J.M. Hartman and M. Wong. 2007. “Aeolian sediment transport on a human altered foredune”. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms  32:102-115.

Nordstrom, K.F., N.L. Jackson, D.R. Smith, and R.G. Weber. 2006. “Transport of horseshoe crab eggs by waves and swash on an estuarine beach: implications for foraging shorebirds”.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 70: 438-448.

Jackson, N.L., D.R. Smith, and K.F. Nordstrom. 2005. “Comparison of sediment characteristics on nourished and un-nourished estuarine beaches in Delaware Bay, New Jersey”. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie 141: 31- 45.

Jackson, N.L., K.F. Nordstrom. and D.R. Smith. 2005. “Influence of waves and horseshoe crab spawning on beach morphology and sediment characteristics on a sandy estuarine beach, Delaware Bay, New Jersey, USA”. Sedimentology  52: 1097-1108.

Jackson, N.L., G. Masselink, and K.F. Nordstrom. 2004. “The role of bore collapse and local shear stresses on the spatial distribution of sediment load in the uprush of an intermediate-state beach”. Marine Geology, 203: 109-118.