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

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Kevin M. Yeager

University of Kentucky

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

101 Slone Building
Lexington , KY 40506

kevin.yeager@uky.edu

Project List:

A Comprehensive Assessment of Oil Distribution, Transport, Fate and Impacts on Ecosystems and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Release

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Task Co-Lead

Responses of Benthic Communities and Sedimentary Dynamics to Hydrocarbon Exposure in Neritic and Bathyal Ecosystems: Phase II

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Co-Principal Investigator

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Article - 1
2012
Martinez, M. L., Feagin, R. A., Yeager, K. M., Day, J., Costanza, R., Harris, J. A., et al. (2012). Artificial modifications of the coast in response to theDeepwater Horizonoil spill: quick solutions or long-term liabilities? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(1), 44–49.
Conference Presentations - 9
2013
Brunner, C., Yeager, K., Briggs, K., & Louchouarn, P. (2013). Bathyal assemblages of live, benthic foraminifera near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Brunner, C., Yeager, K., Briggs, K., & Louchouarn, P. (2013). Bathyal assemblages of live, benthic foraminifera near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC, November 3-6, 2013.
Brunner, C. A., Yeager, K. M., Briggs, K. B., Keim, J., Louchouarn, P., Hatch, R. S., et al. (2013). Effect of oil contamination on infauna of Louisiana and Mississippi marshes with implications for marsh functioning. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
2012
Brunner, C. A., Keim, J., Yeager, K. M., Briggs, K., & Louchouarn, P. (2012). Effect of oil from the Macondo blowout on infaunal foraminifera of Louisiana and Mississippi marshes. In Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC, November 3-6, 2012.
Brunner, C. A., Yeager, K. M., Briggs, K. B., Keim, J., & Louchouarn, P. (2012). The effects of oil from the Macondo blowout on infaunal foraminifera of Louisiana and Mississippi marshes. In Mississippi-Alabama Bays and Bayous Symposium. Biloxi, MS, November 14-15, 2012.
Brunner, C. A., Yeager, K. M., Briggs, K. B., Keim, J., Louchouarn, P., Hatch, R. S., et al. (2012). Effect of oil contamination on infauna of Louisiana and Mississippi marshes with implications for marsh functioning. In AGU Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 3-7, 2012.
Yeager, K. M., Brunner, C. A., Briggs, K., Louchouarn, P., Wade, T., Shiller, A. M., et al. (2012). Widespread distribution of Deepwater Horizon-derived hydrocarbons on the seafloor of the northern Gulf of Mexico. In AGU Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 3-7, 2012.
2011
Brunner, C. A., Dedeaux, L., Yeager, K., & Schindler, K. J. (2011). Intertidal foraminifera of the Mississippi and Chandeleur Sounds: Effect of Deepwater Horizon oil spill obscured by erosion. In Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. March 27-29, 2011.
Yeager, K. M., Brunner, C. A., Briggs, K. B., Louchouarn, P., Guo, L., Asper, V., et al. (2011). Deepwater Horizon: Coastal ocean to marsh margin sedimentary impacts. In American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention and Exhibition. Houston, TX April 10-13, 2011.