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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Dawei Shi

Texas A&M University

Department of Oceanography

3146 TAMU
Eller O&M Building
College Station, TX  77843  

dvshi@tamu.edu 

Project List:

Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers 2 (ADDOMEx-2): Towards a synthesis of process and pathways of marine oil snow formation

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level

Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers (ADDOMEx)

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

Gulf of Mexico Integrated Spill Response Consortium (GISR)

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

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 5

2020

Bacosa, H. P., Kamalanathan, M., Cullen, J., Shi, D., Xu, C., Schwehr, K. A., et al. (2020). Marine Snow Aggregates are Enriched in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Oil Contaminated Waters: Insights from a Mesocosm Study. Jmse, 8(10), 781.
Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Shi, D., Knap, A. H., Quigg, A., Sweet, S. T., Sericano, J. L., et al. (2020). Mesocosm experiments to better understand hydrocarbon half-lives for oil and oil dispersant mixtures. PLoS ONE, 15(1), e0228554.
Shi, D., Bera, G., Knap, A. H., Quigg, A., Al Atwah, I., Gold-Bouchot, G., et al. (2020). A mesocosm experiment to determine half-lives of individual hydrocarbons in simulated oil spill scenarios with and without the dispersant, Corexit. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 151, 110804.

2019

Bera, G., Gold-Bouchot, G., Passow, U., Wade, T. L., Shi, D., Morales-McDevitt, M., et al. (2019). Inter-laboratory calibration of estimated oil equivalent (EOE) concentrations of a water accommodated fraction (WAF) of oil and a chemically enhanced WAF (CEWAF). Heliyon, 5(1), e01174.

2017

Wade, T. L., Morales-McDevitt, M., Bera, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., Wang, B., et al. (2017). A method for the production of large volumes of WAF and CEWAF for dosing mesocosms to understand marine oil snow formation. Heliyon, 3(10), e00419.

Conference Presentations - 17

2019

Wade, T. L., Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Shi, D., Bera, G., Knap, A. H., & Quigg, A. (2019). Half-Lives of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Controlled Mesocosm Studies. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.

2018

Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Wade, T. L., Bera, G., Shi, D., Quigg, A., & Knap, A. (2018). Comparison between ambient and enhanced nutrient mesocosms in short and long term experiments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Wade, T. L., Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Knap, A. H., Shi, D., Bera, G., & Quigg, A. (2018). Long Term Marine Oil Snow Experiment (LTMOSE). In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.

2017

Gold-Bouchot, G., Nolen, R., Shi, D., Bera, G., Morales-McDevitt, M., Wade, T. L., et al. (2017). Chlorophyll a Levels in Dichloromethane Extracts from Mesocosm Exposed to WAF, DCEWAF and CEWAF. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Knap, A., Wade, T. L., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Bera, G., et al. (2017). Formation of Microbial Exopolymers in Mesocosm Experiments using Coastal and Open Ocean Waters Dosed with BP Surrogate Oil and Corexit 9500A. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Shi, D., Wade, T. L., Gold-Bouchot, G., Sweet, S. T., Morales-McDevitt, M., Bera, G., et al. (2017). Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Distributions of WAF, DCEWAF and CEWAF Treatments in Mesocosm Experiments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Wade, T. L., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S. T., Morales-McDevitt, M., Bera, G., et al. (2017). Making Oil and Water Mix for ADDOMEx Mesocosms Marine Oil Snow Impact Experiments: a tale of WAF and CEWAF. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.

2016

Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., Morales-McDevitt, M., Ramirez-Miss, N., Passow, U., et al. (2016). Analysis of Hydrocarbons in WAF and CEWAF by Fluorescence. Results of an intercalibration exercise. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Morales-McDevitt, M., Wade, T. L., Knap, A. H., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., et al. (2016). Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) and Chemically Enhanced Water Accommodated Fraction (CEWAF) production using BP surrogate oil and Corexit 9500 for dosing of ADDOMEx Mesocosms. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Wade, T. L., Knap, A., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., et al. (2016). Degradation of WAF, CEWAF, and DCEWAF in biologically enriched mesocosms. In 2016 Texas Bays and Estuaries Meeting. Port Arsansas, TX : 04/13/16-04/14/16.
Shi, D., Sweet, S. T., Sericano, J. L., Guinasso, N. L., & Wade, T. L. (2016). Distribution of Estimated Oil Equivalence (EOE) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Water Samples after the Deepwater Horizon Incident. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Wade, T. L., Knap, A., Morales-McDevitt, M., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S. T., et al. (2016). 2016 Identifying oil/marine snow associations Preparation of water accommodated fraction (WAF) and chemical enhanced water accommodated fraction (CWAF) for dosing of ADDOMEx mesocosms experiments. In American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting 2016 (ACS SWRM-2016). Galveston, TX : 11/10/16-11/13/16.

2015

Wade, T., Sweet, S. T., Sericano, J. L., Shi, D., & Guinasso, J., N.L. (2015). Temporal Trends of Florescence Estimated Oil Equivalents in the Water Column during and four year after the Deepwater Horizon Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.

2014

Shi, D., Wade, T. L., Sweet, S. T., & Guinasso, N. L. (2014). Estimated Oil Equivalents in the Water Column Three Years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Wade, T. L., Chapman, P., Sericano, J. L., Sweet, S. T., Shi, D.,, & Guinasso, N. L. (2014). Petroleum in the Water Column in the Vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon 252 Spill and Hercules 365 Gas Blowout. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14: Poster.
Wade, T. L., Shi, D., Chapman, P. S.,, S.T., & Guinasso, N. L. (2014). Hercules 252 Gas Blowout Rapid Response: Water Sample Estimated Oil Equivalents. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.

2013

Wade, T. L., Sweet, S. T., Sericano, J. L., Shi, D., Knap, A. H., Chapman, P., et al. (2013). Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Chemistry Perspective. In International Symposium on Deep-water Oil Spills. Qingdao, China, October 28 - 29, 2013.