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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Funding Source: Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)

Project Member Institutions

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf-2 (ECOGIG-2)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Timothy D'Angelo
Research Staff

Internship Program

Astudillo Francisco
Undergraduate Student

Research

Heather Gilbert
Research Staff
Beth N. Orcutt
Co-Principal Investigator

Columbia University

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

Melody Aleman
Undergraduate Student
Carolina Ernani
Undergraduate Student
Dorothy Fang
Undergraduate Student
Vincent Guarnaccia
Undergraduate Student
Andrew R. Juhl
Co-Principal Investigator
Saumya Puthenveettil
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Andrew Stock
Post-Doc
Ajit Subramaniam
Co-Principal Investigator
Andreas M. Thurnherr
Co-Principal Investigator
Beizhan Yan
Co-Principal Investigator

Florida State University

Coastal and Marine Laboratory

Oscar Garcia-Pineda
Research Scientist
Joeseph Portillo
High School Student

Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science

Jeffrey Paul Chanton
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead
Caroline Johansen
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Ian MacDonald
Co-Principal Investigator
Kelsey Rogers
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Mauricio Silva-Aguilara
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level

Georgia Institute of Technology

Department of Biology

Joseph P. Montoya
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead

School of Biology

Ana Clavere-Graciette
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Nigel D'Souza
Research Staff
Kristen Goehring
Research Staff
Sara Kyungmin Kim
Undergraduate Student
Emma Siegfried
Undergraduate Student
Anna Taylor
Undergraduate Student
Sarah Weber
Research Staff,
Graduate Student - Master's Level

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Annalisa Bracco
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Guangpeng Liu
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dongsik Chang
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Sungjin Cho
Graduate Student - PhD Level

School of Physics

Keshav Joshi
Graduate Student - PhD Level,
Graduate Student - Master's Level

Harvard University

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Peter R. Girguis
Co-Principal Investigator

Oregon State University

Department of Chemistry

Paul R. Blakemore
Co-Principal Investigator
Shannon Davis
Undergraduate Student

Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

Jennifer Field
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Matt Perkins
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Alix Robel
Undergraduate Student

Pennsylvania State University

Department of Biology

Iliana B. Baums
Co-Principal Investigator
Cole Curtis
Undergraduate Student
Richard Dannenberg
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Charles Fisher
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead
Bo Fu
Undergraduate Student
Fanny Girard
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Rachel Mack
Undergraduate Student
Miles Saunders
Research Staff
Rebecca Simpson
Undergraduate Student
Emily Smith
Undergraduate Student
Sara Tabin
Undergraduate Student
Sam Vohsen
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level

Temple University

Biology Department

Erik E. Cordes
Co-Principal Investigator
Danielle DeLeo
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Stephen Lengyel
Research Staff

The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Marine Science

Tracy A. Villareal
Co-Principal Investigator

Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Aurelien Lecoeuvre
Graduate Student - Master's Level

University of California Santa Barbara

Marine Science Institute

Laura Butler
Undergraduate Student
Max Goldenstein
Undergraduate Student
Thunnanoon Jenarewong
Research Staff
Uta Passow
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead
Julia Sweet
Research Staff

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Stacey Banegas
Undergraduate Student
Colt Barron
Undergraduate Student
Jessica J Battles
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Sara Beresford
Outreach Point of Contact,
Outreach Team
Renato M. Castelao
Co-Principal Investigator
Hannah Choi
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Emily Davenport
Outreach Point of Contact,
Outreach Team
Andrea DeLeon
Undergraduate Student
Brian Dixon
Project Data Point of Contact,
Data Team
Nora Dorhmi
Undergraduate Student
Thomas Dornhoffer
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Catherine R. Edwards
Co-Principal Investigator
Tracy Williams Fowler
Administrative Staff
Sarah Harrison
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Sarah Herschede
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Kimberley Hunter
Research Scientist
Samantha B. Joye
Principal Investigator
Rachael Karns
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Christine Laporte
Outreach Point of Contact
Zachary Marinelli
Research Staff
Eric Marty
Outreach Team
Christof Meile
Co-Principal Investigator
Andy Montgomery
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Timothy Montgomery
Undergraduate Student
Josh Parris
Research Staff
Tito Pena-Montenegro
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Omama Rahmany
Undergraduate Student
Betty Rice
Administrative Staff
Ed Robinson
Task Data Contact
Christina Roehring
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Mary-Kate Rogener
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Paul Roland
Undergraduate Student
Jurjen Rooze
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Matthew Saxton
Program Manager / Technical Coordinator,
Post-Doc
Cathrine Shepard
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Ryan Sibert
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Elizabeth Vaughn
Administrative Staff
Anna Vizurraga
Undergraduate Student
Yu Wang
GoMRI Scholar,
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Yuntao Wang
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Yi Yang
Post-Doc
Yeping Yuan
Post-Doc

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Charles Robertson
Research Staff

University of Maryland

Center for Environmental Science

Laura Lapham
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Hadley McIntosh
Graduate Student - PhD Level

University of Mississippi

National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology

Michelle Edwards
Outreach Team

University of New Hampshire

Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Madison Alstede
Undergraduate Student

Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS)

Kai Ziervogel
Co-Principal Investigator

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Marine Sciences

Carol Arnosti
Co-Principal Investigator
Sherif Ghobrial
Research Staff
Andrew Hyde
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Caleb King
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Barbara J. MacGregor
Co-Principal Investigator
Christopher S. Martens
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Howard Mendlovitz
Research Staff
Lisa Nigro
Post-Doc,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Andreas P. Teske
Co-Principal Investigator
Tim Wahl
Undergraduate Student
Tingting Yang
Research Staff
Kai Ziervogel
Co-Principal Investigator

University of Oldenburg

Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment

Thorsten Brinkhoff
Research Scientist
Giebel Helge
Research Scientist

University of Southern Mississippi

Division of Marine Science

Vernon L. Asper
Co-Principal Investigator
Justin Blancher
Graduate Student - Master's Level

National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology

Arne R. Diercks
Co-Principal Investigator
Roy Jarnagin
Research Staff
Max Woolsey
Research Staff
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org