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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Joseph Richards

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Department of Biology

P.O.Box 42451
Lafayette , LA  70504  

jlr0420@louisiana.edu

Project List:

Coastal Waters Consortium (CWC)

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

Stop-Gap Sampling to Assess the Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact on Macroalgae and Macrocrustaceans in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Bridge Grants (RFP-III)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 3

2016

Krayesky-Self, S., Richards, J. L., Rahmatian, M., & Fredericq, S. (2016). Aragonite infill in overgrown conceptacles of corallineLithothamnionspp. (Hapalidiaceae, Hapalidiales, Rhodophyta): new insights in biomineralization and phylomineralogy. J. Phycol., 52(2), 161–173.

2014

Fredericq, S., Arakaki, N., Camacho, O., Gabriel, D., Krayesky D., Self, S., et al. (2014). A dynamic approach to the study of rhodoliths: A case study for the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Cryptogamie, Algologie, 35(1), 77–98.
Richards, J. L., Gabrielson, P. W., & Fredericq, S. (2014). New insights into the genus Lithophyllum (Lithophylloideae, Corallinaceae, Coraliinales) from deewater rhodolith beds offshore the NW Gulf of Mexico. Phytotaxa, 190(1), 162–175.

Conference Presentations - 9

2015

Camacho, O., Clinton, K., Self-Krayesky, S., Rees, G., Richards, J. L., Sauvage, T., et al. (2015). Trials and tribulations of Gulf of Mexico algae and macrocrustaceans inhabiting deep banks offshore Louisiana: what have we learned since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.

2014

Fredericq, S., Sauvage, T., Self, S., Richards, J., Felder, D., & Schmidt, W. E. (2014). What happened to the offshore rhodoliths and other seaweeds in the NW Gulf of Mexico since the 2010 DWH oil spill? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14.
Richards, J. L., Gabrielson, P. W., & Fredericq, S. (2014). New insights into the genus Lithophyllum (Lithophylloideae, Corallinaceae, Corallinales) from offshore the NW Gulf of Mexico. In 2014 Phycological Society of America Meeting/Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Portland, OR : 05/18/14-05/23/14.
Sauvage, T., Schmidt, W. E., Self, S., Richards, J., Camacho, O., Venera-Ponton, D., et al. (2014). Rhodoliths offshore the NW Gulf of Mexico: before and after, inside and out. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.

2013

Fredericq, S., Sauvage, T., Richards, J., Camacho, O., Venera-Ponton, D., & Schmidt, W. E. (2013). Assessment of the Deepwater Horizon spill impacts on offshore seweed diversity in the NW Gulf of Mexico. In Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy. Dauphin Island, AL, September 27-28, 2013: Poster.
Fredericq, S., Sauvage, T., Richards, J., Camacho. O., G., W., Venera-Ponton, D., & Schmidt, W. (2013). Function of rhodoliths as seedbanks in post-spill NW Gulf of Mexico deep banks: A novel and unexplored concept. In Invited Presentation, Department of Marine Life Science, Chosun University. Gwangjiu, Korea, July 3, 2013.
Richards, J., Gabrielson, P., & Fredericq, S. (2013). Gene sequencing reveals newly reported biodiversity of non-geniculate coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. In International Phycological Congress (IPC 10) & Annual Phycological Society of America Meeting. Orlando, FL, August 4-10, 2013.
Richards, J., Gabrielson, P. W., & Fredericq, S. (2013). Molecular and morphological diversity of non-geniculate coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. In Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy. Dauphin Island, AL, September 27-28, 2013.

2012

Richards, J., Gardiner, W., Schmidt, W., Venera-Ponton, D., Camacho, O., Sauvage, T., et al. (2012). The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the seaweeds: Before and After. In Southeastern Phycological Colloquy. Miami, FL, October 20, 2012.