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John H. Paul

University of South Florida

College of Marine Science

140 7th Ave South
St. Petersburg , FL  33701  

jpaul@marine.usf.edu

Project List:

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

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)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: Task Co-Lead, Research Scientist

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

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Assessing the Concentration and the Molecular and Isotropic Composition of Deep sea Submerged Oils in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Year One Block Grant - Florida Institute of OceanographyRole: Research Staff

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 5

2016

Weisberg, R. H., Zheng, L., Liu, Y., Murawski, S., Hu, C., & Paul, J. (2016). Did Deepwater Horizon Hydrocarbons Transit to the West Florida Continental Shelf? Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 259–272.

2015

Kleindienst, S., Paul, J. H., & Joye, S. B. (2015). Using dispersants after oil spills: impacts on the composition and activity of microbial communities. Nat Rev Micro, 13(6), 388–396.
McDaniel, L. D., Basso, J., Pulster, E., & Paul, J. H. (2015). Sand patties provide evidence for the presence of Deepwater Horizon oil on the beaches of the West Florida Shelf. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 97(1-2), 67–77.

2014

Paul, J. H. (2014). Response to Comment on “Toxicity and Mutagenicity of Gulf of Mexico Waters During and After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill”. Environ. Sci. Technol., 48(6), 3593–3594.

2013

Paul, J. H., Hollander, D., Coble, P., Daly, K. L., Murasko, S., English, D., et al. (2013). Toxicity and Mutagenicity of Gulf of Mexico Waters During and After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Environ. Sci. Technol., 47(17), 9651–9659.

Conference Presentations - 8

2016

McDaniel, L., Basso, J., & Paul, J. M. (2016). Persistence of Mutagenicity in Sediments Three Years post DWH Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.

2015

McDaniel, L., Basso, J., Wetzel, D., Pulster, E., & Paul, J. (2015). Sand Patties Provide Evidence for the Presence of Deepwater Horizon Oil on the West Florida Shelf. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
McDaniel, L. D., Wetzel, D., Basso, J., & Paul, J. H. (2015). Further evidence for the presence of deepwater horizon oil spill on the West Florida shelf. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.

2014

Paul, J., Basso, J., & Wetzel, D. (2014). The WFS controversy. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Weisberg, R. H., Zheng, L., Liu, Y., Murawski, S., Hu, C., Paul, J., et al. (2014). Did Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbons transit to the West Florida continental Shelf? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.

2013

Paul, J. H., Delaney, J., & Basso, J. (2013). Toxicity of Waters Near the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Then and Now. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.

2011

Hollander, D., Freeman, K., Ellis, G., Diefendorf, A., Goddard, E., Peebles, E., et al. (2011). Why subsurface oils associated with the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout are so long-lived and remain toxic?: A molecular organic geochemical perspective. In Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oceanography. August 2011.
Hollander, D., Freeman, K., Ellis, G., Diefendorf, A., Peebles, E., & Paul, J. (2011). Long-Lived, Sub-Surface Layers of Toxic Oil in the Deep-Sea: A Molecular Organic and Isotopic Geochemical Approach to Understanding their Nature, Molecular Distribution, Origin and Impacts to the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In American Geophysical Union National Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 2011.