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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Michael Reuscher

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies

6300 Ocean Drive
Corpus Christi, TX 78412- 5869

michael.reuscher@tamucc.edu

Project List:

Genomic Responses to the Deepwater Horizon event and development of high-throughput biological assays for oil spills

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

Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems II (C-IMAGE II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2
2020
Reuscher, M. G., Baguley, J. G., Montagna, P. A., & Corsi, I. (2020). The expanded footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico deep-sea benthos. PLoS ONE, 15(6), e0235167.
2017
Washburn, T. W., Reuscher, M. G., Montagna, P. A., Cooksey, C., & Hyland, J. L. (2017). Macrobenthic community structure in the deep Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 127, 21–30.
Conference Presentations - 9
2020
Montagna, P. A., Reuscher, M. G., & Baguley, J. G. (2020). The Deep-Sea Benthic Footprint of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was Bigger Than We Thought, Which Is Why Sampling Plans Matter. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
2019
Reuscher, M. G., Montagna, P. A., & Baguley, J. G. (2019). Expanded footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea benthic communities. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.
2018
Diaz, K. S., Sevigny, J. L., Leasi, F., Schuelke, T., Reuscher, M. G., Rohal, M., et al. (2018). All these hosts are yours: microbial assemblage in benthic meiofauna of the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Leasi, F., Sevigny, J. L., Bik, H., Diaz, K. S., Montagna, P., Norenburg, J. L., et al. (2018). Evaluating the accuracy of metabarcoding based biodiversity analysis. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Reuscher, M. G., & Montagna, P. A. (2018). How suitable are species level and family level identifications of Gulf of Mexico polychaetes for multivariate biodiversity assessments? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Reuscher, M. G., & Montagna, P. A. (2018). Taxonomic sufficiency and unidentifiable species in multivariate biodiversity assessments of benthic polychaetes from the northern Gulf of Mexico. In Benthic Ecology Meeting 2018. Corpus Christi, TX : 03/28/18-03/30/18.
Sevigny, J. L., Leasi, F., Bik, H., Diaz, K. S., Montagna, P., Norenburg, J. L., et al. (2018). The Impacts of an expanded set of meiofaunal genome references on the analyses of metagenomic samples collected from the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
2017
Reuscher, M. G., Montagna, P. A., Leasi, F., Morris, K., Sevigny, J., & Thomas, W. K. (2017). New methods for the identification of benthic infauna communities using next generation sequencing. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Sevigny, J. L., Leasi, F., Diaz, K. Z., Rohal, M., Reuscher, M., Morris, K., et al. (2017). Genomic responses to the Deepwater Horizon event and development of high-throughput biological assays for oil spills. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.