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

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Michael Seidel

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Marine Sciences Building
University of Georgia
Athens , GA 30602

mseidel@uga.edu

Project List:

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2
2016
Seidel, M., Kleindienst, S., Dittmar, T., Joye, S. B., & Medeiros, P. M. (2016). Biodegradation of crude oil and the influence of dispersant in deep sea water from the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 108–118.
2015
Kleindienst, S., Seidel, M., Ziervogel, K., Grim, S., Loftis, K., Harrison, S., et al. (2015). Chemical dispersants can suppress the activity of natural oil-degrading microorganisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 112(48), 14900–14905.
Conference Presentations - 5
2015
Malkin, S., Harrison, S., Saxton, M., Loftis, K., Battles, J., Seidel, M., et al. (2015). Do Chemical Dispersants Impede or Hasten Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons in Surface Waters? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Seidel, M., Kleindienst, S., Babcock-Adams, L., Dittmar, T., Joye, S. B., & Medeiros, P. M. (2015). Unraveling Microbial Degradation of Dispersant and Water-Soluble Oil Compounds in Deep Seawater from the Gulf of Mexico using Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
2014
Joye, S. B., Seidel, M., Medeiros, P., Hunter, K., Grim, S., Sogin, M., et al. (2014). Chemical dispersants used in oil spill response alter microbial community composition and evolution but not microbial activity. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Kleindienst, S. S., Grim, S., Sogin, M., Seidel, M., Medeiros, P. M., Passow, U., et al. (2014). The microbial response to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea plume. In Goldschmidt 2014 Conference. Sacramento, CA : 06/08/14-06/13/14.
Seidel, M., Kleindienst, S., Dittmar, T., Joye, S. B., & Medeiros, P. M. (2014). Influence of dispersants on the biodegradation of crude oil in deep sea water from the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry. In Gordon Conference on Organic Biogeochemistry. Holderness, NH : 8/2/14-8/3/14.