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William Frank Patterson, III

University of South Alabama

Department of Marine Sciences

Life Sciences Building Room 25
Mobile, AL  36688  

will.patterson@ufl.edu

Project List:

Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems II (C-IMAGE II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Task Co-Lead, Co-Principal Investigator

Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems (C-IMAGE)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 6

2020

Chagaris, D. D., Patterson, W. F., & Allen, M. S. (2020). Relative Effects of Multiple Stressors on Reef Food Webs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Revealed via Ecosystem Modeling. Front. Mar. Sci., 7(June 2020).

2019

Bennett, C., Robertson, A., & Patterson, W. (2019). First record of the non-indigenous Indo-Pacific damselfish, Neopomacentrus cyanomos (Bleeker, 1856) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. BioInvasions Records, 8(1), 154–166.

2016

Dahl, K., Patterson III, W., & Snyder, R. (2016). Experimental assessment of lionfish removals to mitigate reef fish community shifts on northern Gulf of Mexico artificial reefs. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 558, 207–221.
Murawski, S., Fleeger, J., Patterson, W., Hu, C., Daly, K., Romero, I., et al. (2016). How Did the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Affect Coastal and Continental Shelf Ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico? Oceanog, 29(3), 160–173.

2015

Tarnecki, J. H., & Patterson III, W. F. (2015). Changes in Red Snapper Diet and Trophic Ecology Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 7(1), 135–147.

2014

Dahl, K. A., Patterson, W. F., & Layman, C. A. (2014). Habitat-Specific Density and Diet of Rapidly Expanding Invasive Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, Populations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e105852.

Conference Presentations - 17

2020

Lewis, J. P., Tarnecki, J. H., Garner, S. B., Chagaris, D. D., & Patterson, W. F. (2020). Changes in Reef Fish Community Structure Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
Patterson, W. F., Campbell, M., Chagaris, D., Hanisko, D., Murawski, S., Pollock, A., et al. (2020). A Review of Deepwater Horizon Impacts and Evidence of Resiliency in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf Ecosystem. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.

2017

Ainsworth, C. H., Paris, C., Perlin, N., Dornberger, L., Patterson, W., Chancellor, E., et al. (2017). Ecosystem impacts of DWH evaluated with Atlantis. In 147th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Tampa, FL : 08/20/17-08/24/17.
Barnes, G., & Patterson III, W. F. (2017). Inferring aspects of small demersal reef fish ecology on the west Florida shelf from stable and radio isotope analysis. In Big Bend Science Symposium. Cedar Key, FL : 02/01/17-02/03/17.
Barnett, B. K., Patterson III, W. F., Andrews, A., Thornton, L., & Allman, R. (2017). Otolith radiocarbon verifies age estimates in long-lived reef fishes along the west Florida shelf. In Big Bend Science Symposium. Cedar Key, FL : 02/01/17-02/03/17.
Patterson, W. F., Barnes, G., & Barnett, B. K. (2017). Inferring aspects of small demersal reef fish ecology on the West Florida Shelf with stable and radio isotope analysis. In 147th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Tampa, FL : 08/20/17-08/24/17.

2016

Barnett, B., Patterson, W., Chanton, J., Hollander, D., Romero, R., Goddard, E., et al. (2016). Stable and radio isotopes reveal food web impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In 10th International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotopes to Ecological Studies. Tokyo, Japan : 04/03/16-04/08/16.
Chanton, J., Patterson, W., Barnett, B., Tarnecki, J., Bosman, S., Mickle, A., et al. (2016). Isotopic Tracers: Documenting Ecosystem Effects of the DWH Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16.
Chanton, J. P., Patterson, W., Passow, U., Hollander, D. B., S., Rogers, K., Montoya, J., et al. (2016). Tracers in the Gulf: Tracking the petrocarbon released from oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico with natural abundance radiocarbon. In American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Summer Meeting. Santa Fe, NM : 06/05/16-06/10/16.
Chanton, J. P., Patterson, W., Passow, U., Hollander, D. B., S., Rogers, K., Montoya, J., et al. (2016). Tracers in the Gulf: Tracing the Deepwather Horizon Oil Spill with Isotopic Analysis. In Florida American Chemical Society Annual Meeting. Clearwater, FL : 05/05/16-05/07/16.
Dahl, K., Patterson, W., & Snyder, R. (2016). Experimental assessment of lionfish removals to mitigate reef fish community shifts on northern Gulf of Mexico artificial reefs. In Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. New Orleans, LA : 07/06/16-07/10/16.
Patterson, W. (2016). Acute and Chronic Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Red Snapper in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16.
Romero, I. C., Patterson, W. F., Sutton, T., Quintana-Rizzo, E., Ross, S. W., Kane, A. S., et al. (2016). A Time-series Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Fish Communities before and after the DWH Event. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.

2015

Dahl, K. A., Patterson III, W. F., & Snyder, R. A. (2015). Targeted Lionfish Removals on Northern Gulf of Mexico Artificial Reefs: Effectiveness and Impacts to Native Reef Fish Communities. In 68th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Conference. Panama City, Panama : 11/09/15-11/13/15.
Patterson III, W. F., Dahl, K. A., Tarnecki, J. H., Norberg, M. A., & Snyder, R. A. (2015). Trophic Context of Invasive Lionfish in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Inferred from Reef Fish Diet and Muscle Stable Isotope Analyses. In 68th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Conference. Panama City, Panama : 11/09/15-11/13/15.

2013

Romero, I., Hollander, D. J., Brooks, G. R., Patterson, W., Ross, S. W., Torres, J. J., et al. (2013). Deposition and persistence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the first Deepwater oil spill: From deep-sea sediments to fish communities (Gulf of Mexico, USA). In IMOG (International Meeting of Organic Geochemists). Tenerife, Spain, September 15-20, 2013: Poster.
Tarnecki, J. H., & Patterson, W. F., III. (2013). Diet and trophic ecology of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, on natural and artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In Alabama Fisheries Association Annual Meeting. Guntersville, AL, March 6-9, 2013.