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

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Emily Whitaker

Texas A&M University

Department of Oceanography

3146 TAMU
Eller O&M Building
College Station, TX 77843

whit1667@tamu.edu

Project List:

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

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Graduate Student - Master's Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Article - 1
2018
Doyle, S. M., Whitaker, E. A., De Pascuale, V., Wade, T. L., Knap, A. H., Santschi, P. H., et al. (2018). Rapid Formation of Microbe-Oil Aggregates and Changes in Community Composition in Coastal Surface Water Following Exposure to Oil and the Dispersant Corexit. Front. Microbiol., 9.
Conference Presentations - 8
2017
De Pascual, V., Whitaker, E., Doyle, S., & Sylvan, J. (2017). Quantification of Functional Genes for Hydrocarbon Degradation in the Microbial Communities of Coastal Water Mesocosms. In ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Honolulu, HI : 02/26/17-03/03/17: Poster.
Doyle, S., Setta, S., Whitaker, E., De Pascual, V., Quigg, A., & Sylvan, J. B. (2017). Investigating the Microbial Response to Oil and Dispersants in Surface Water Marine Environments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Kamalanathan, M., Xu, C., Sweet, J., Beaver, M., Zhang, S., Whitaker, E., et al. (2017). Microbial activity in Chemically Enhanced Water Accommodated Fraction of Surrogate Oil from BP Oil Spill. In ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Honolulu, HI : 02/26/17-03/03/17.
Setta, S., Whitaker, E., Genzer, J., Bretherton, L., Doyle, S., Brown, C., et al. (2017). The effects of Oil and Corexit on the interaction between bacteria and phytoplankton in Mesocosm experiments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Setta, S., Whitaker, E., Genzer, J., Bretherton, L., Doyle, S., Brown, C., et al. (2017). The interaction between bacteria and phytoplankton in response to oil and corexit in mesocosm experiments. In ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Honolulu, HI : 02/26/17-03/03/17: Poster.
Whitaker, E. A., Kamalanathan, M., Quigg, A., & Sylvan, J. B. (2017). Exoenzymatic response of coastal and offshore surface ocean microbial communities to exposure to oil and an oil/dispersant mixture. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
2016
Doyle, S., Whitaker, E., Steichen, J., Brown, C., Genzer, J., Knapp, A., et al. (2016). Initial analysis of microbial community response to oil and Corexit in coastal water mesocosms. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Doyle, S., Whitaker, E., & Sylvan, J. B. (2016). Microbial Community Response to Oil and Corexit in Coastal Water Mesocosms. In 2016 Texas A&M University Postdoctoral Research Symposium. College Station, TX : 09/21/16: Poster.