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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Anusha Dissanayake

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Marine Sciences Building
University of Georgia
Athens , GA 30602

dissanayake.al@gmail.com

Project List:

Oil-Marine Snow-Mineral Aggregate Interactions and Sedimentation during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)Role: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 3
2019
Passow, U., Sweet, J., Francis, S., Xu, C., Dissanayake, A., Lin, Y., et al. (2019). Incorporation of oil into diatom aggregates. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 612, 65–86.
2018
Dissanayake, A. L., Burd, A., Daly, K. L., Francis, S., & Passow, U. (2018). Numerical modeling of the interactions of oil, marine snow, and riverine sediments in the ocean. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 123(8), 5388–5405.
2017
Gros, J., Socolofsky, S. A., Dissanayake, A. L., Jun, I., Zhao, L., Boufadel, M. C., et al. (2017). Petroleum dynamics in the sea and influence of subsea dispersant injection during Deepwater Horizon. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 114(38), 10065–10070.
Conference Presentations - 6
2020
Burd, A., Daly, K., Dissanayake, A., Francis, S., Jokulsdottir, T., Passow, U., et al. (2020). Modeling Marine-Oil-Snow and MOSSFA Events: Progress and Perspectives. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
2018
Burd, A. B., Daly, K. L., Dissanayake, A. L., Francis, A., & Passow, U. (2018). A numerical model to simulate the interactions of marine snow and oil spilled in the ocean. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018. Portland, OR : 02/11/18-02/16/18.
Burd, A. B., Daly, K. L., Dissanayake, A. L., Francis, A., & Passow, U. (2018). The fractal dimension of marine aggregates: An overlooked parameter in determining particle interactions. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018. Portland, OR : 02/11/18-02/16/18.
Burd, A. B., Daly, K. L., Dissanayake, A. L., Francis, A., & Passow, U. (2018). The fractal dimension of marine snow aggregates: changing aggregate characteristics. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Dissanayake, A. L., Burd, A., Daly, K. L., Francis, S., & Passow, U. (2018). Numerical modeling of the interactions of oil, marine snow, and rivering sediments in the ocean. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
2017
Dissanayake, A., Burd, A., Daly, K., Francis, S., & Passow, U. (2017). Numerical Modeling of the Interactions Between Oil and Marine Snow. In International Oil Spill Conference 2017. Long Beach, CA : 05/15/17-05/18/17: Poster.