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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Luke McKay

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Marine Sciences

3202 Venable Hall, CB 3300
Chapel Hill , NC  27599  

luke.mckay@montana.edu

Project List:

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG)

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

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 3

2016

McKay, L. J., Gutierrez, T., & Teske, A. P. (2016). Development of a group-specific 16S rRNA-targeted probe set for the identification of Marinobacter by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 360–367.

2013

Gutierrez, T., Berry, D., Yang, T., Mishamandani, S., McKay, L., Teske, A., et al. (2013). Role of Bacterial Exopolysaccharides (EPS) in the Fate of the Oil Released during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e67717.

2012

Ziervogel, K., McKay, L. J., Rhodes, B., Osburn, C. L., Dickson-Brown, J., Arnosti, C., et al. (2012). Microbial Activities and Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in Oil-Contaminated Surface Seawater from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Site. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e34816.

Conference Presentations - 2

2013

McKay, L., Speare, K., Mendlovitz, H., Hale, A., Yang, T., Nigro, L., et al. (2013). Time Series Studies of the Impacts of Oil and Gas Releases in Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.

2012

Joye, S. M., Teske, A., & McKay, L. (2012). Microbial biogeochemical dynamics in contrasting cold seep ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. In AGU Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 3-7, 2012.