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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Rachel Simister

Haverford College

Department of Chemistry

370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA  19041  

rlsimister@gmail.com

Project List:

Weathering of Petroleum and Dispersant Components in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Year 3-5 Investigator Grants (RFP-II)Role: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Article - 1

2016

Simister, R. L., Antzis, E. W., & White, H. K. (2016). Examining the diversity of microbes in a deep-sea coral community impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 157–166.

Conference Presentations - 5

2015

Liu, Y., Simister, R., Lyons, S., White, H. K., & Kujawinski, E. (2015). Microbial Degradation Of Polar Crude Oil Components – A Metabolomics Approach. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Simister, R., Liu, Y., Lyons, S., Kujawinski, E., & White, H. (2015). Using Comparative Metagenomics to Analyze Microbial Degradation of Polar Crude Oil Components. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

Simister, R. L., Reeve, J., & White, H. K. (2014). Examining the degradation of oil by fungi isolated from oil-soaked sand patties. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Simister, R. L., Willis, E. L., & White, H. K. (2014). Diversity of oil-degrading microbes and petroleum-hydrocarbon genes in deep-sea environments impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14: Poster.
White, H. K., Reeve, J., & Simister, R. L. (2014). Oil degradation by an Ascomycetes fungi. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14: Poster.