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

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Hidetoshi Urakawa

Florida Gulf Coast University

Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences

10501 FGCU Blvd, South
Fort Meyers, FL 33965

hurakawa@fgcu.edu

Project List:

Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (ACER)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 3
2019
Urakawa, H., Rajan, S., Feeney, M. E., Sobecky, P. A., & Mortazavi, B. (2019). Ecological response of nitrification to oil spills and its impact on the nitrogen cycle: Ecological response of nitrification to oil spills. Environ Microbiol, 21(1), 18–33.
Urakawa, H., Skutas, J., Lopez, J. V., & Thrash, J. C. (2019). Draft Genome Sequence of Nitrosomonas sp. Strain APG5, a Betaproteobacterial Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium Isolated from Beach Sand. Microbiol Resour Announc, 8(21), e01573–18.
2017
Urakawa, H., & Bernhard, A. E. (2017). Wetland management using microbial indicators. Ecological Engineering, 108(Part B), 456–476.
Conference Presentations - 9
2019
Feeney, M. E., Parsons, M. L., Robertson, A., & Urakawa, H. (2019). Responses of anaerobic bacterial communities to hydrocarbon contamination. In 28th Annual Southwest Florida Water Resources Conference. Fort Myers, FL : 01/25/19-01/25/19: Poster.
Hancock, T. L., Blonder, S. L., Bury, A. A., Robertson, A., Parsons, M. L., & Urakawa, H. (2019). Succession pattern and phylotype analysis of microphytobenthic communities in a simulated oil spill seagrass mesocosm experiment. In 28th Annual Southwest Florida Water Resources Conference. Fort Myers, FL : 01/25/19-01/25/19: Poster.
2018
Feeney, M. E., Lindsey, M. W., Parsons, M. L., Robertson, A., & Urakawa, H. (2018). Oiling Effects on Oxygen and Hydrogen Sulfide Depth Profiles in Coastal Marine Sediments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Urakawa, H. (2018). Wetland landscape management using microbial indicators. In EcoSummit 2016. Montpellier, France : 08/29/16-09/01/16.
Urakawa, H., Qin, W., Feeney, M. E., Wagner, K. D., Bonacolta, A. M., Pettit, M. B., et al. (2018). Ecophysiology and phylogeny of nitrifying microorganisms and their differential chemical toxicity responses. In 5th International Conference on Nitrification and Related Processes (ICoN5). Vienna, Austria : 07/23/17-07/28/17: Poster.
2017
Bury, A., Parsons, M., Robertson, A., & Urakawa, H. (2017). Comparison of Resilience in NaÃ¯ve Ruppia Maritima (Florida) versus Pre-conditioned Ruppia Maritima (Louisiana) in Exposure to the Water Associated Fraction (WAF) of Crude Oil in Laboratory Mesocosms. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Robertson, A., Baltzer, K., Gwinn, J. K., Parsons, M., Urakawa, H., Smolinski, R., et al. (2017). Assessment of Oiling on the Biodiversity and Resilience of the Benthic Microbial Assemblages in coastal sediments of the Chandeluer Islands. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Urakawa, H., Smolinski, R. A., Baltzer, K., Novoveska, L., Gwinn, J. K., Smith, S. N., et al. (2017). Characterization of the Sediment Archaeal Community in the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: Five Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Wagner, K. D., Overholt, W. A., Urakawa, H., Huettel, M., & Kostka, J. E. (2017). Buried Crude Oil Alters the Microbial Nitrogen Cycle in Submerged Coastal Sands. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.