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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Tito Pena-Montenegro

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Marine Sciences Building
University of Georgia
Athens , GA 30602

tdp56207@uga.edu

Project List:

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf-2 (ECOGIG-2)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level

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

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Graduate Student - PhD Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 3
2019
Zhuang, G. - C., Pena-Montenegro, T. D., Montgomery, A., & Joye, S. B. (2019). Significance of acetate as a microbial carbon and energy source in the water column of Gulf of Mexico: implications for marine carbon cycling. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 33(2), 223–235.
2018
Joye, S., Kleindienst, S., & Pena-Montenegro, T. D. (2018). SnapShot: Microbial Hydrocarbon Bioremediation. Cell, 172(6), 1336.e1.
Zhuang, G., Pena-Montenegro, T. D., Montgomery, A., Hunter, K. S., & Joye, S. B. (2018). Microbial metabolism of methanol and methylamine in the Gulf of Mexico: insight into marine carbon and nitrogen cycling. Environmental Microbiology, 20(12), 4543–4554.
Conference Presentations - 6
2018
Joye, S. B., Harrison, S. J., Pena-Montenegro, T., Shepherd, C., Carroll, L., & Saxton, M. A. (2018). Regulation and dynamics of microbial oil degradation in nearshore and offshore waters. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
2017
Joye, S. B., Saxton, M. A., Pena-Montenegro, T., & Kleindienst, S. (2017). Using -omics approaches to track the response of microbial hydrocarbon degraders to natural and anthropogenic hydrocarbon inputs. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Joye, S. B., Saxton, M. A., Pena-Montenegro, T., & Kleindienst, S. (2017). Using -omics approaches to track the response of microbial hydrocarbon degraders to natural and anthropogenic hydrocarbon inputs. In ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Honolulu, HI : 02/26/17-03/03/17.
Pena Montenegro, T., Saxton, M. A., Kleindienst, S., Allen, A., & Joye, S. B. (2017). Transcriptomics Reveal Responses of Deep-Water Microbial Communities to Oil and Dispersant Exposure. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
2016
Pena-Montenegro, T., Kleindienst, S., & Joye, S. B. (2016). Genomics and transcriptomics reveal the response of extreme microbial communities to oil and dispersant exposure. In Southeastern Biogeochemical Symposium. Knoxville, TN : 03/11/2016-03/14/2016: Poster.
Pena-Montenegro, T., Kleindienst, S., & Joye, S. B. (2016). Genomics and transcriptomics reveal the response of extreme microbial communities to oil and dispersant exposure. In Annual Meeting of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Faclities. Fort Lauderdale, FL : 02-23-2016-02/26-2016.