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Susan Snyder

University of South Florida

College of Marine Science

140 7th Ave South
St. Petersburg , FL  33701  

ssnyder4@mail.usf.edu

Project List:

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

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

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, Graduate Student - PhD Level

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

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

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 5

2020

Pulster, E. L., Gracia, A., Armenteros, M., Toro-Farmer, G., Snyder, S. M., Carr, B. E., et al. (2020). A First Comprehensive Baseline of Hydrocarbon Pollution in Gulf of Mexico Fishes. Sci Rep, 10(1).
Snyder, S. M., Olin, J. A., Pulster, E. L., & Murawski, S. A. (2020). Spatial contrasts in hepatic and biliary PAHs in Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) throughout the Gulf of Mexico, with comparison to the Northwest Atlantic. Environmental Pollution, 258, 113775.

2019

Snyder, S. M., Pulster, E. L., & Murawski, S. A. (2019). Associations between chronic exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and health indices in Gulf of Mexico Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) post-Deepwater Horizon. Environ Toxicol Chem, 38(12), 2659–2671.

2016

Romero, I. C., Ã?zgökmen, T., Snyder, S., Schwing, P., O'Malley, B. J., Beron-Vera, F. J., et al. (2016). Tracking the -Hercules 265- marine gas well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121(1), 706–724.

2015

Snyder, S. M., Pulster, E. L., Wetzel, D. L., & Murawski, S. A. (2015). PAH Exposure in Gulf of Mexico Demersal Fishes, Post-Deepwater Horizon. Environ. Sci. Technol., 49(14), 8786–8795.

Book Chapters - 2

2019

Pulster, E., Gracia, A., Snyder, S., Romero, I. C., Carr, B., Toro-Farmer, G., et al. (2019). Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Baselines in Gulf of Mexico Fishes. In S. A. Murawski, C. H. Ainsworth, S. A. Gilbert, D. J. Hollander, C. B. Paris, M. Schlüter, et al. (Eds.), Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills: Fighting the Next War (pp. 253–271). Springer International Publishing.
Pulster, E. L., Gracia, A., Snyder, S. M., Deak, K., Fogelson, S., & Murawski, S. A. (2019). Chronic Sub-lethal Effects Observed in Wild-Caught Fishes Following Two Major Oil Spills in the Gulf of Mexico: Deepwater Horizon and Ixtoc 1. In S. A. Murawski, C. H. Ainsworth, S. A. Gilbert, D. J. Hollander, C. B. Paris, M. Schlüter, et al. (Eds.), Deep Oil Spills – Facts, Fate, and Effects (pp. 388–413). Springer International.

Conference Presentations - 20

2019

Deak, K., Dishaw, L., Walsh, C., Breitbart, M., Portnoy, D. S., Pulster, E., et al. (2019). Lessons Learned from a Gulf-wide Evaluation of Biomarker Expression in Red Snapper and Golden Tilefish. In 2019 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Sciences Conference. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Pulster, E. L., Gracia, A., Snyder, S. M., Mrowicki, J., Romero, I. C., Carr, B., et al. (2019). Spatiotemporal trends in PAH baselines in Gulf of Mexico fishes. In 2019 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Sciences Conference. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Snyder, S., Pulster, E. L., & Murawski, S. A. (2019). Maternal offloading of PAHs and relationship to hepatobiliary changes in Gulf of Mexico Golden Tilefish. In 2019 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Sciences Conference. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.

2018

Gracia, A., Murawski, S. A., Alexander-Valdez, H. M., Vazquez-Bader, A. R., Snyder, S., Lopez-Duran, I. M., et al. (2018). Resiliencia de las Poblaciones de Peces a Hidrocarburos Poliaromáticos. In Ragum 2018. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico : 10/28/18-11/02/18.
Snyder, S. (2018). Hepatic accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and prevalence of hepatic and external skin lesions in Golden tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.

2017

O'Leary, S. J., Snyder, S., Pulster, E., Murawski, S., Gold, J. R., & Portnoy, D. S. (2017). A comparison of gulf-wide population-level effects of oil exposure on the genetic diversity of a demersal, sedentary, deepwater-burrowing fish. In 147th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Tampa, FL : 08/20/17-08/24/17.
Pulster, E. L., Snyder, S., Carr, B., Toro-Farmer, G., Gracia, A., Armenteros, M., et al. (2017). What can bile tell us about the environmental health of the Gulf of Mexico. In 147th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Tampa, FL : 08/20/17-08/24/17.
Snyder, S., Pulster, E., & Murawski, S. (2017). Forming a Gulf-wide dataset of PAH exposure and accumulation in benthic-dependent teleosts. In USF College of Marine Science Graduate Student Symposium. St. Petersburg, FL : 01/13/17.
Snyder, S., Pulster, E. L., & Murawski, S. (2017). Gulf-wide analysis of PAH exposure and accumulation in Golden tilefish. In 147th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Tampa, FL : 08/20/17-08/24/17.
Snyder, S. M. (2017). Forming a Gulf-wide dataset of PAH exposure and accumulation in benthic-dependent teleosts. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.

2016

Snyder, S., Pulster, E., Romero, I., Hollander, D., & Murawski, S. (2016). Comparing PAH Profiles across the Gulf of Mexico: Red Snapper Liver Analysis. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16.

2015

Pulster, E. L., Snyder, S., & Murawski, S. (2015). Post-Deepwater Horizon levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fish bile. In Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Toxicology Fall 2015 Meeting. Tampa, FL : 10/15/15-10/16/15.
Romero, I., Ozgokmen, T., Snyder, S., Wetzel, D. L., Ylitalo, C. M., Beron Vera, F., et al. (2015). Impacts of a marine gas well blowout on PAH contamination in sediments and fish. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Synder, S., Pulster, E. L., Wetzel, D. L., Romero, I. C., Larson, R., Brooks, G., et al. (2015). Understanding spatial trends in biliary PAH metaboloite concentration in GoM demersal fishes using sediment PAH concentration and sediment grain size. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
Wetzel, D., Deak, K. L., Suprenand, P., Snyder, S., & Romero, I. C. (2015). A correlation of vitellogenin and PAH in red snapper and golden tilefish exposed to the DwH spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

Murawski, S., Stein, J. E., Ylitalo, G. M., Wetzel, D., & Snyder, S. (2014). Whose oil is it anyway? Evaluating DWH in relation to multiple hydrocarbon sources affecting GoM fishes. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Ramirez, H., Romero, I., Snyder, S.,, Larson, R. A., Schwing, P., Brooks, G. R., et al. (2014). PAH in continental-shelf sediments two years after the DWH blowout. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Schwing, P., Romero, I., & Snyder, S. (2014). Ocean Pollution: the Gulf of Mexico as a case study. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14: Poster.
Snyder, S., Pulster, E., Romero, I., Ramirez, H., Wetzel, D., Hollander, D., et al. (2014). Tracing persistent exposure of burrow-forming fishes to oil contaminatin following the DWH blowout. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14.

2013

Snyder, S. (2013). Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout on Burrow Forming Finfishes: An interdisciplinary approach. In University of South Florida, College of Marine Science Graduate Student Symposium. St. Petersburg, FL, April 19, 2013.