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

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Miguel Rodriguez-R

Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mason Building
790 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332

lmrodriguezr@gmail.com

Project List:

A systems approach to improve predictions of biodegradation and ecosystem recovery in coastal marine sediments impacted by oil spill

Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)Role: Post-Doc, Graduate Student - PhD Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2
2020
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Hatt, J. K., Huettel, M., Kostka, J. E., et al. (2020). Genome repository of oil systems: An interactive and searchable database that expands the catalogued diversity of crude oil-associated microbes. Environ Microbiol, 22(6), 2094–2106.
2019
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, L. M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Kim, M., Overholt, W. A., Gaby, J. C., et al. (2019). Candidatus Macondimonas diazotrophica, a novel gammaproteobacterial genus dominating crude-oil-contaminated coastal sediments. The ISME Journal, 13(5), 2129–2134.
Book Chapter - 1
2019
Kostka, J. E., Overholt, W. A., Rodriguez-R., L. M., Huettel, M., & Konstantinidis, K. (2019). Toward a predictive understanding of the benthic microbial community response to oiling on the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. In S. A. Murawski, C. H. Ainsworth, S. A. Gilbert, D. J. Hollander, C. B. Paris, M. SchlÃ¼ter, et al. (Eds.), Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills: Fighting the Next War (pp. 182–202). Springer International.
Conference Presentations - 3
2020
Karthikeyan, S., Rodriguez-R, M., Heritier-Robbins, P., Hatt, J. K., Huettel, M., Kostka, J. E., et al. (2020). The Oil Microbiome webserver: An interactive (meta-)genome repository that expands the catalogued diversity of oil-associated microbes. In 2020 AGU Ocean Science Meeting. San Diego, CA : 02/16/20-02/21/20.
2019
Kostka, J., Overholt, W., Rodriguez-R, L., Huettel, M., & Konstantinidis, K. (2019). Toward a Predictive Understanding of Biodegradation and its Impacts on the Fate of Oil Deposited on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Coast. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
2016
Konstantinidis, K., & Rodriguez-R, M. (2016). Successional patterns in beach sand microbial communities during and after the Macondo oil spill: Testing the specialization-disturbance hypothesis. In Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Fort Lauderdale, FL : 08/07/16-08/21/16.