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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Matthew Pendergraft

Tulane University

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

101 Blessey Hall
6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA  70118  

mpenderg@tulane.edu

Project List:

Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Graduate Student - Master's Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2

2016

Rosenheim, B., Pendergraft, M. A., Flowers, G. C., Carney, R., Sericano, J., Amer, R. M., et al. (2016). Employing extant stable carbon isotope data in Gulf of Mexico sedimentary organic matter for oil spill studies. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 249–258.

2014

Pendergraft, M. A., & Rosenheim, B. E. (2014). Varying Relative Degradation Rates of Oil in Different Forms and Environments Revealed by Ramped Pyrolysis. Environ. Sci. Technol., 48(18), 10966–10974.

Conference Presentations - 2

2015

Rosenheim, B. E., Pendergraft, M. A., Kolasinski, J., Yeager, K., Maiti, K., & Liu, Z. (2015). Transformation of oil in sediments constrained using advanced 14C analysis. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2013

Rosenheim, B. E., Pendergraft, M., Carney, R., Cruz, V., Brunner, C., & Chanton, J. P. (2013). Cruise Report – CARTHE Sediment and Water Column Sampling, DWH Spill Site West to Mississippi Canyon. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013: Poster.