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Conor Smith

University of Miami

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL  33149  

conorsmith@gmail.com

Project List:

Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment II (CARTHE II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level

Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level, GoMRI Scholar

Microbial Community Responses to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Pre-Spill Background Assessment

Year One Block Grant - Louisiana State UniversityRole: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 5

2017

Laxague, N. J. M., Haus, B. K., Ortiz-Suslow, D. G., Smith, C. J., Novelli, G., Dai, H., et al. (2017). Passive Optical Sensing of the Near-Surface Wind-Driven Current Profile. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 34(5), 1097–1111.

2016

Mariano, A. J., Ryan, E. H., Huntley, H. S., Laurindo, L. C., Coelho, E., Griffa, A., et al. (2016). Statistical properties of the surface velocity field in the northern Gulf of Mexico sampled by GLAD drifters. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121(7), 5193–5216.

2014

Ã?zgökmen, T. M., Beron-Vera, F. J., Bogucki, D., Chen, S., Dawson, C., Dewar, W., et al. (2014). Research Overview of the Consortium for Advanced Rserach on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Envrionment (CARTHE). Proceedings of the International Oil Spill Conference, 2014(1), 544–560.

2012

King, G. M., Judd, C., Kuske, C. R., Smith, C., & Neufeld, J. (2012). Analysis of Stomach and Gut Microbiomes of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) from Coastal Louisiana, USA. PLoS ONE, 7(12), e51475.

2011

Smith, C. B., Johnson, C. N., & King, G. M. (2011). Assessment of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Degradation by Potentially Pathogenic Environmental Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates from Coastal Louisiana, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 64(1), 138–143.

Conference Presentations - 14

2015

Novelli, G., Pennel, R., Ortiz-Sunslow, D. G., Laxague, N. J. M., Smith, C. J., & �zgökmen, T. M. (2015). Lagrangian and Eulerian Observations of the Transport Induced by Winds, Waves and Tides Near the Sea Surface. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

Lipphardt, B. L. J., Huntley, H., Kirwan, A. D., Chen, S., Coelho, E., Gough, M., et al. (2014). Objective Surface Velocity Maps from GLAD drifter observations in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Novelli, G., Pennel, R., Ortiz-Suslow, D., Laxague, N., Smith, C., Ozgokmen, T. M., et al. (2014). Experiments in the Ocean Near-Surface Layer. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.

2013

Bogucki, D., Ariyarathne, K., Mitchell, C., Beron-Vera, F., Chen, S., Curcic, M., et al. (2013). Observations and Coupled Model Forecasts fromCcalm Winds to Hurricane Isaac (2012) during GLAD Field Campaign. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Chen, S., Curcic, M., Judt, F., Griffa, A., Gough, M., Haus, B.;H., A., et al. (2013). Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Observations and Models. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Chen, S. S., Curcic, M., Judt, F., Bogocki, D., Centurioni, L., Coelho, E., et al. (2013). Vertical Transport of Passive Tracers in the Cumulus Topped Marine Boundary Layer. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Hogan, P., Bogocki, D., Beron-Vera, J., Chen, S., Coelho, E., Curcic, M., et al. (2013). Inertial currents in the Northern Gulf of Mexico during the GLAD experiment. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Huntley, H., Lipphardt, B., Kirwan, A., Beron-Vera, F., Bogucki, D., Chen, S., et al. (2013). Observations and Coupled Model Forecasts from Calm Winds toHurricane Isaac (2012) during GLAD Field Campaign. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Lipphardt, J., B., Huntley, H., Sulman, M., Kirwan, J., A., Chen, S., Coelho, E., et al. (2013). Upper ocean energetics during the Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD) experiment. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Smith, S., Jacobs, G., Helber, R., Spence, P., Carrier, M., Bogocki, D.;B. - V., F., et al. (2013). Evaluating Gulf of Mexico forecasts: surface heat fluxes and thermal energy balances on seasonal to diurnal time scales. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Smith, S., Jacobs, G., Helber, R., Spence, P., Carrier, M., Bogocki, D., et al. (2013). The Impact of Velocity Data Assimilation From Drifters Using the Navy Coupled Ocean 3D Variational Data Assimilation System (NCODA-VAR). In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013: Poster.
Spence, P., Jacobs, G., Barron, C., Bartels, B., Rowley, C., & Smith, C. (2013). Coupling glider observations and ocean forecasts for a more effective ocean observing system. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.

2011

King, G. M., Smith, C., Tolar, B., & Hollibaugh, J. T. (2011). Bacterioplankton diversity and community structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA : May 21-24, 2011.
Smith, C., Johnson, C., & King, G. M. (2011). Capacity for polyaromatic hydrocarbon oxidation by pathogenic Vibro parahaemolyticus. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA, May 21-24, 2011.