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Stephen Sweet

Texas A&M University

Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

833 Graham Road
College Station , TX  77845  

sweet@gerg.tamu.edu

Project List:

Deep-sea Risk Assessment and species sensitivity to WAF, CEWAF and Dispersant

Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)Role: Research Staff

Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers (ADDOMEx)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Research Staff

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2

2020

Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Shi, D., Knap, A. H., Quigg, A., Sweet, S. T., Sericano, J. L., et al. (2020). Mesocosm experiments to better understand hydrocarbon half-lives for oil and oil dispersant mixtures. PLoS ONE, 15(1), e0228554.

2017

Wade, T. L., Morales-McDevitt, M., Bera, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., Wang, B., et al. (2017). A method for the production of large volumes of WAF and CEWAF for dosing mesocosms to understand marine oil snow formation. Heliyon, 3(10), e00419.

Conference Presentations - 17

2019

Bera, G., Knap, A., Turner, N. R., Renegar, D. A., Whitemiller, E., Sericano, J. L., et al. (2019). Acute toxicity of oil and dispersant on deep-sea crustaceans. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Whitemiller, E., Renegar, D. A., Turner, N. R., Bera, G., Sericano, J. L., Sweet, S., et al. (2019). Acute toxicity of 1-methylnaphthalene and Macondo surrogate crude oil to the peppermint shrimp, Lysmata boggessi. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.

2018

Knap, A., Windham, R., Sweet, S., Morales, M., Bera, G., Santschi, P. H., et al. (2018). A simple system for the oxygenation of mesocosms without stirring or bubbling. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Renegar, D. A., Turner, N., Bera, G., Frank, T., Riegl, B., Knap, A., et al. (2018). Lysmata wurdmanni as a proxy for deep-water column micronekton in hydrocarbon toxicity studies. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Turner, N., Renegar, D. A., Bera, G., Frank, T., Riegl, B., Knap, A., et al. (2018). Toxicity of oil to Americamysis bahia and deep-water column micronekton with comparisons to model predictions. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.

2017

Bera, G., Knap, A., Sweet, S., Gold, G., Wade, T., & Sericano, J. (2017). Comparing Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) making procedures and their chemical composition. In International Oil Spill Conference 2017. Long Beach, CA : 05/15/17-05/18/17: Poster.
Bera, G., Renegar, A., Turner, N., Frank, T., Sweet, S., Gold, G., et al. (2017). Temperature and salinity effects on partitioning co-efficient (KPDMS-water) of selected hydrophobic organic carbons (HOCs): their use for passive dosing. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Shi, D., Wade, T. L., Gold-Bouchot, G., Sweet, S. T., Morales-McDevitt, M., Bera, G., et al. (2017). Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Distributions of WAF, DCEWAF and CEWAF Treatments in Mesocosm Experiments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Wade, T. L., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S. T., Morales-McDevitt, M., Bera, G., et al. (2017). Making Oil and Water Mix for ADDOMEx Mesocosms Marine Oil Snow Impact Experiments: a tale of WAF and CEWAF. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.

2016

Bera, G., Knap, A., Sericano, J., Wade, T. L., Sweet, S. T., Gold-Bouchot, G., et al. (2016). Stability and chemical composition of water accommodated fraction (WAF) made through three different procedures and their implication in formation of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) during oil spill. In American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting 2016 (ACS SWRM-2016). Galveston, TX : 11/10/16-11/13/16.
Bera, G., Knap, A., Sweet, S., Gold, G., Wade, T., Sericano, J., et al. (2016). Formation of Marine Snow in Presence of Dissolved Hydrocarbons from Oil Spill. In 2016 Texas A&M University Postdoctoral Research Symposium. College Station, TX : 09/21/16.
Bera, G., Knap, A., Sweet, S., Gold, G., Wade, T., Sericano, J., et al. (2016). Stability and chemical composition of water accommodated fraction (WAF) made through three different procedures and their implication in formation of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) during oil spill. In 2016 ACS Southwest Regional Meeting. Galveston, TX : 11/11/16-11/13/16.
Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., Morales-McDevitt, M., Ramirez-Miss, N., Passow, U., et al. (2016). Analysis of Hydrocarbons in WAF and CEWAF by Fluorescence. Results of an intercalibration exercise. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Morales-McDevitt, M., Wade, T. L., Knap, A. H., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., et al. (2016). Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) and Chemically Enhanced Water Accommodated Fraction (CEWAF) production using BP surrogate oil and Corexit 9500 for dosing of ADDOMEx Mesocosms. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Morales-McDevitt, M. E., Wade, T. L., Knap, A., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S., et al. (2016). Degradation of WAF, CEWAF, and DCEWAF in biologically enriched mesocosms. In 2016 Texas Bays and Estuaries Meeting. Port Arsansas, TX : 04/13/16-04/14/16.
Shi, D., Sweet, S. T., Sericano, J. L., Guinasso, N. L., & Wade, T. L. (2016). Distribution of Estimated Oil Equivalence (EOE) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Water Samples after the Deepwater Horizon Incident. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Wade, T. L., Knap, A., Morales-McDevitt, M., Gold-Bouchot, G., Shi, D., Sweet, S. T., et al. (2016). 2016 Identifying oil/marine snow associations Preparation of water accommodated fraction (WAF) and chemical enhanced water accommodated fraction (CWAF) for dosing of ADDOMEx mesocosms experiments. In American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting 2016 (ACS SWRM-2016). Galveston, TX : 11/10/16-11/13/16.