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

The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Marine Science

Marine Science Institute
750 Channel View Drive
Port Aransas, TX  78373  

connelly@austin.utexas.edu

Project List:

Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies (DROPPS)

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

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 3

2016

Almeda, R., Connelly, T. L., & Buskey, E. J. (2016). How much crude oil can zooplankton ingest? Estimating the quantity of dispersed crude oil defecated by planktonic copepods. Environmental Pollution, 208, 645–654.
Almeda, R., Harvey, T. E., Connelly, T. L., Baca, S., & Buskey, E. J. (2016). Influence of UVB radiation on the lethal and sublethal toxicity of dispersed crude oil to planktonic copepod nauplii. Chemosphere, 152, 446–458.

2014

Almeda, R., Connelly, T. L., & Buskey, E. J. (2014). Novel insight into the role of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in the fate of crude oil in the sea. Sci. Rep., 4, 7560.

Conference Presentations - 2

2015

Almeda, R., Connelly, T., & Buskey, E. J. (2015). Ingestion of Dispersed Crude Oil by Zooplankton. In 2015 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Granada, Spain : 02/22/15-02/27/15.
Almeda, R., Connelly, T., Hyatt, C., & Buskey, E. J. (2015). Novel insight into the role of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in the fate of crude oil in the sea. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.