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Alice Ortmann

University of South Alabama

Department of Marine Sciences

Life Sciences Building Room 25
Mobile, AL  36688  

Alice.Ortmann@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Project List:

Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (ACER)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Task Co-Lead, Co-Principal Investigator

Recovery: Benthic Meiofauna Survey

Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science ConsortiumRole: Task Co-Lead

Recovery: Plankton

Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science ConsortiumRole: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Lead, Task Co-Lead, Task Data Contact

Does the 'Priming Effect' Caused by the DWH Oil-spill Result in Increased Microbial and Zooplankton Consumption of Labile and Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon? Phase II

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Research Scientist

Impacts of the Deep Horizon Oil Spill on Ecosystem Structure and Function in Alabama's Marine Waters

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Lead, Task Data Contact

Quantifying the Effects of Oil Exposure on the Carbon Cycling and Diversity of Pelagic Microbial Community of Coastal Alabama

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

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 5

2015

Ortmann, A. C., & Lu, Y. H. (2015). Initial community and environment determine the response of bacterial communities to dispersant and oil contamination. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 90(1-2), 106–114.

2014

Ortell, N., & Ortmann, A. (2014). Interactions among members of the microbial loop in an estuary dominated by microzooplankton grazing. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 72(1), 63–71.
Ortmann, A. C., & Ortell, N. (2014). Changes in free-living bacterial community diversity reflect the magnitude of environmental variability. FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 87(1), 291–301.

2012

Ortmann, A. C., Anders, J., Shelton, N., Gong, L., Moss, A. G., Condon, R. H., et al. (2012). Dispersed Oil Disrupts Microbial Pathways in Pelagic Food Webs. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e42548.

2011

Ortmann, A., Metzger, R., Liefer, J., & Novoveska, L. (2011). Grazing and viral lysis vary for different components of the microbial community across an estuarine gradient. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 65(2), 143–157.

Conference Presentations - 9

2016

Dahl, K. A., Patterson, W. F., Robertson, A., Ortmann, A. C., Portnoy, D., & Hogan, J. D. (2016). DNA barcoding and microsatellite genotyping reveal cannibalism among invasive lionfish in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf Estuarine Research Society Fall 2016 Meeting. Pensacola Beach, FL : 11/03/16-11/05/16.

2012

Ortmann, A. C., Metzger, R. C., Anders, J., Shelton, N., Condon, R., & Graham, W. M. (2012). Dispersants and Dispersed Oil Disrupt the Microbial Food Web in Coastal Alabama Waters. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.

2011

Condon, R. H., Graham, W. M., Brandes, J., Kiene, R., Linn, L. J., Ortmann, A. C., et al. (2011). Hydrocarbons as subsidy energy for food web production in coastal Gulf of Mexico waters. In Northern Gulf Institute Annual Conference. Mobile, AL, May 17-19, 2011: Poster.
Condon, R. H., Graham, W. M., Brandes, J., Ortmann, A. C., Linn, L. J., Shelton, N. L., et al. (2011). Hydrocarbons as subsidy energy for food we production in coastal Gulf of Mexico waters. In AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT, February 19-24, 2011.
Mortazavi, B., Ortmann, A., Wang, L., & Bernard, R. (2011). Nitrification and Denitrification Potential Along a Vegetation Gradient in a Saltmarsh Ecosystem. In Benthic Ecology Annual Meeting 2011. Mobile, AL : 03/16/11-03/20/11.
Ortmann, A. C., Metzger, R. C., Anders, J., & Condon, R. (2011). Characterizing the coastal microbial community response to oil and dispersant exposure. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. Gainesville, FL, October 20-22, 2011.
Ortmann, A. C., Metzger, R. C., & Condon, R. H. (2011). Investigating patterns of growth, grazing and viral lysis of the phytoplankton along a salinity gradient influenced by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. In Northern Gulf Institute Annual Conference. Mobile, AL, May 17-19, 2011.

2010

Chadhain, N., Ortell, S. N., Wang, L., & Ortmann, A. C. (2010). Microbial community response to the Deepwater Horizon spill, a functional gene approach. In Southeastern Branch ofthe American Society of Microbiology. Montgomery, AL: Poster.
Ortmann, A. C., Ortell, S. N., & Chadhain, N. (2010). Archaea as a sentinel group to measure recovery from the Deepwater Horizon spill. In Southeastern Branch ofthe American Society of Microbiology. Montgomery, AL.