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

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Charles Bergen

Texas A&M University at Galveston

Marine Biology Department

P.O. Box 1675
Galveston, TX 77553

charliebergen@tamu.edu

Project List:

Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers 2 (ADDOMEx-2): Towards a synthesis of process and pathways of marine oil snow formation

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)Role: Undergraduate Student

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

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Undergraduate Student

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2
2021
Kamalanathan, M., Schwehr, K. A., Labont?, J. M., Taylor, C., Bergen, C., Patterson, N., et al. (2021). The Interplay of Phototrophic and Heterotrophic Microbes Under Oil Exposure: A Microcosm Study. Front. Microbiol., 12, E675328.
2018
Schwehr, K. A., Xu, C., Chiu, M. - H., Zhang, S., Sun, L., Lin, P., et al. (2018). Protein: Polysaccharide ratio in exopolymeric substances controlling the surface tension of seawater in the presence or absence of surrogate Macondo oil with and without Corexit. Marine Chemistry, 206, 84–92.
Conference Presentations - 4
2019
Light, B. D., Mondragon, A., Hillhouse, J., Rodkey, T., Kamalanathan, M., Maples, S., et al. (2019). The Effects of Crude Oil and Corexit on the Diatom Phaeodactylum Tricornutum Under Nutrient Stress. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.
2018
Bergen, C., Yard, A., Schwehr, K. A., Xu, C., Chiu, M. - H., Zhang, S., et al. (2018). Protein/polysaccharide ratio in exopolymeric substances controlling the surface tension of seawater in the presence or absence of oil and/or Corexit. In 2018 Texas A&M University at Galveston Student Research Symposium. Galveston, TX : 04/17/18-04/19/18: Poster.
Schwehr, K. A., Chiu, M. - H., Kamalanathan, M., Xu, C., Sun, L., Lin, P., et al. (2018). Insights on Does oil aggregate or emulsifyion with added dispersant? Results from measurements of surface tension, FTIR, and microscopy of Formation from colloidal EPS protein-polysaccharide interactions with oil and/or dispersants are added. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Schwehr, K. A., Chiu, M. - H., Kamalanathan, M., Xu, C., Sun, L., Lin, P., et al. (2018). Insights on Marine Oil Snow or Emulsion Formation from Protein-Polysaccharide Interactions with Oil and Dispersant from Surface Tension and Microscopy. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018. Portland, OR : 02/11/18-02/16/18.