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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Melitza Crespo-Medina

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Marine Sciences Building
University of Georgia
Athens , GA 30602

mcrespo1@uga.edu

Project List:

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

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2
2016
Kleindienst, S., Grim, S., Sogin, M., Bracco, A., Crespo-Medina, M., & Joye, S. B. (2016). Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume. Isme J, 10(2), 400–415.
2014
Crespo-Medina, M., Meile, C. D., Hunter, K. S., Diercks, A. - R., Asper, V. L., Orphan, V. J., et al. (2014). The rise and fall of methanotrophy following a deepwater oil-well blowout. Nature Geosci, 7(6), 423–427.
Conference Presentations - 8
2015
Joye, S., Passow, U., Medeiros, P., Sibert, R., Yang, T., Asper, V., et al. (2015). Rapid sedimentation, resuspension and redistribution of hydrocarbons in the wake of the Macondo Blowout. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
2014
Joye, S. B., Kleindienst, S., Grim, S., Crespo-Medina, M., & Sogin, M. (2014). The role of the rare biosphere in pelagic hydrocarbon degradation during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14.
2013
Joye, S. B., Sibert, R., Battles, J., Fields, L., Kleindienst, S., Crespo-Medina, M., et al. (2013). Sediment biogeochemistry and microbial activity at natural hydrocarbon seeps and at sites impacted by anthropogenic hydrocarbon discharges. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013.
Joye, S., Crespo-Medina, M., Hunter, K., Asper, V., Diercks, A. R., Highsmith, R., et al. (2013). Pelagic methane oxidation in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Activity patterns before, during, and after the Macondo Blowout. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Weber, S. C., Subramaniam, A., Crespo-Medina, M., Joye, S. B., Bracco, A., Villareal, T. A., et al. (2013). Spills, seeps, and pelagic foodwebs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: What do stable isotopes tell us about oil, gas, and discolored zooplankton? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
2012
Crespo-Medina, M., Vossmeyer, A., Hunter, K., Battles, J. J., Montoya, J. P., Asper, V., et al. (2012). Water column methane dynamics in response to the Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon spill. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.
Joye, S. B., Crespo-Medina, M., Medeiros, P., Benitez-Nelson, C., Moore, W., Montoya, J. P., et al. (2012). Intense sedimentation on the seafloor following the 2010 Macondo blowout: Geochemical composition, mechanisms, and microbial impacts. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12: Poster.
Montoya, J. P., Subramaniam, A., Crespo-Medina, M., Bracco, A., Villareal, T. A., & Joye, S. B. (2012). The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and pelagic foodwebs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: What do elements and isotopes tell us about oil, plumes, and zooplankton? In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.