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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Funding Source: Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)

Project Publications & Presentations

The State-of-the-Art Unraveling of the Biotic and Abiotic Chemical Evolution of Macondo Oil: 2010-2018.

Journal Articles - 8

2022

Wise, S. A., Rodgers, R. P., Reddy, C. M., Nelson, R. K., Kujawinski, E. B., Wade, T. L., et al. (2022). Advances in Chemical Analysis of Oil Spills Since the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, .

2019

Ward, C. P., Sharpless, C. M., Valentine, D. L., Aeppli, C., Sutherland, K. M., Wankel, S. D., et al. (2019). Oxygen Isotopes (δ18O) Trace Photochemical Hydrocarbon Oxidation at the Sea Surface. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(12), 6745–6754.

2018

Aeppli, C., Swarthout, R. F., O'Neil, G. W., Katz, S. D., Nabi, D., Ward, C. P., et al. (2018). How Persistent and Bioavailable Are Oxygenated Deepwater Horizon Oil Transformation Products? Environmental Science & Technology, 52(13), 7250–7258.
Bostic, J. T., Aeppli, C., Swarthout, R. F., Reddy, C. M., & Ziolkowski, L. A. (2018). Ongoing biodegradation of Deepwater Horizon oil in beach sands: Insights from tracing petroleum carbon into microbial biomass. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 126, 130–136.
Ward, C. P., Armstrong, C. J., Conmy, R. N., French-McCay, D. P., & Nelson, R. K., Carmichael, C.A., Reddy, C.M., Aeppli, C., Kellerman, M.Y., Valentine, D.L. (2018). Photochemical Oxidation of Oil Reduced the Effectiveness of Aerial Dispersants Applied in Response to the_Deepwater Horizon Spill. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., 5(5), 226–231.
Ward, C. P., Sharpless, C. M., Valentine, D. L., French-McCay, D. P., Aeppli, C., White, H. K., et al. (2018). Partial Photochemical Oxidation Was a Dominant Fate of_Deepwater Horizon Surface Oil. Environ. Sci. Technol., 52(4), 1797–1805.

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.

2016

White, H. K., Wang, C. H., Williams, P. L., Findley, D. M., Thurston, A. M., Simister, R. L., et al. (2016). Long-term weathering and continued oxidation of oil residues from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 113(1-2), 380–386.

Conference Presentations - 60

2020

Rodgers, R. P., Chacon-Patino, M. L., Niles, S. F., Marshall, A. G., Hendrickson, C. L., McKenna, A. M., et al. (2020). Degradation of Oil: What Happened to the Oil? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.

2018

Aeppli, C., Katz, S., Beirne, E., & Nabi, D. (2018). New Methods to Determine the Toxicity of Oxygenated Oil Transformation Products in Weathered Deepwater Horizon Oil Residues. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Armstrong, C. J., Ward, C. P., & Reddy, C. M. (2018). Photochemical oxidation reduces the efficacy of chemical dispersants applied in response to oil spills. In 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. New Orleans, LA : 03/18/18-03/22/18: Poster.
Beirne, E., Katz, S., Clark, B., Nacci, D., Ricker, R., Baker, G., et al. (2018). Exposure and Uptake of Oil Hydrocarbons and Oxygenated Oil Weathering Products in Fish Egg Incubation Experiments Using Weathered Oil. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Chen, H., Katz, S., & Aeppli, C. (2018). Copepods toxicity of photo-irradiated oil: the role of PAHs and oxygenated photo-products. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Chen, H., McKenna, A. M., Davis, C. A., & Rodgers, R. P. (2018). Molecular Characterization of Interfacial Material Isolated from Environmental Samples Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Chen, H., McKenna, A. M., Niles, S., Zito, P. A., & Rodgers, R. P. (2018). Microcosm Approach to the Molecular Understanding of Oil transformation Products from Macondo Well Oil. In 66th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. San Diego, CA : 06/03/18-06/07/18: Poster.
Forziati, N., Nabi, D., & Aeppli, C. (2018). Determining the Acute and Sublethal Toxicity of Oxygenated Hydrocarbons in Weathered Oil. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
McKenna, A. M., Chen, H., Lu, J., Zito, P., Corilo, Y. E., & Rodgers, R. P. (2018). Increased Toxicity of Crude Oil Environmental Transformation Products. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018. Portland, OR : 02/11/18-02/16/18.
McKenna, A. M., Chen, H., Niles, S., Krawjewski, L. C., Patino-Chacon, M. L., Davis, C. C., et al. (2018). Targeted Analysis of Oxygen Transformation Products Derived from Weathered Oil by FT-ICR MS. In 66th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. San Diego, CA : 06/03/18-06/07/18.
Niles, S. F., Chen, H., McKenna, A. M., Krajewski, L. C., Corilo, Y. E., Rodgers, R. P., et al. (2018). Targeted Analysis of Ketone-Containing Transformation Products in Photo-Ox Specific Microcosms and Field Samples. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Reddy, C. M., & Ward, C. P. (2018). The production of spillphatenes following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. In 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. New Orleans, LA : 03/18/18-03/22/18.
Rodgers, R. P., Chacon-Patino, M. L., Rowland, S. M., Smith, D. F., Blakney, G. T., Corilo, Y. E., et al. (2018). The Compositional and Structural Continuum of Petroleum Revealed by FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry. In International Mass Spectrometry Conference. Florence, Italy : 08/27/2018 - 08/31/2018.
Rodgers, R. P., Chacon-Patino, M. L., Rowland, S. M., Smith, D. F., Blakney, G. T., Corilo, Y. E., et al. (2018). The Compositional and Structural Continuum of Petroleum Revealed by FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry. In International Heavy Oil Symposium. Qingdao, China : 09/19/2018 - 09/21/2018.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., Corilo, Y. E., McKenna, A. M., Podgorski, D. C., et al. (2018). Molecular-level Insights into the Biotic / Abiotic Compositional Changes of Weathered Oils Exposes the Importance of Photo-Oxidation. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., McKenna, A. M., Zito, Z., & Corilo, Y. E. (2018). Molecular-level Insights into Environmental Organic Contaminants by High Resolution Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) Mass Spectrometry. In 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. New Orleans, LA : 03/18/18-03/22/18.
Rowland, S. M., Clingenpeel, A. C., Corilo, Y. E., Lobodin, V. V., Podgorski, D. C., Zito, P. A., et al. (2018). Molecular-level Insights into Environmental Processes via High Resolution FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry. In 2018 CNRS Workshop on Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry. Cabourg, France : 04/03/18-04/06/18.
Rowland, S. M., Rodgers, R. P., Smith, D. F., Blakney, G. T., Corilo, Y. E., & Hendrickson, C. L. (2018). Dual Column On-line Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Ultrahigh Resolution 21 T FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Molecular-Level Changes in Petroleum Samples. In American Chemical Society Fall Meeting. Boston, MA : 08/19/2018 - 08/23/2018.
Rowland, S. M., Smith, D. F., Blakney, G. T., Corilo, Y. E., Hendrickson, C. L., & Rodgers, R. P. (2018). Dual Column On-line Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Ultrahigh Resolution 21 T FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry for Complex Organic Mixture Analysis. In 66th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. San Diego, CA : 06/03/18-06/07/18: Poster.
Sharpless, C. M., & Reddy, C. M. (2018). Apparent Quantum Yields of Singlet Oxygen and Photochemical Oxygen Consumption for Crude Oils. In 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. New Orleans, LA : 03/18/18-03/22/18: Poster.
Ward, C. P. (2018). Why sunlight matters for oil spills in the ocean. In American Chemical Society Fall Meeting. Woods Hole, MA : 08/19/2018 - 08/23/2018.
Ward, C. P., Armstrong, C. J., French-McCay, D. P., Conmy, R., & Reddy, C. M. (2018). Photochemical oxidation reduces the efficacy of aerial dispersants applied in response to oil spills. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Ward, C. P., Reddy, C. M., & Cory, R. M. (2018). Evaluating the magnitude of partial photo-oxidation of organic carbon in sunlit surface waters. In 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. New Orleans, LA : 03/18/18-03/22/18.
Ward, C. P., Sharpless, C. M., Aeppli, C., Valentine, D. L., French-McCay, D. P., White, H., et al. (2018). Partial photochemical oxidation was a dominant fate of Deepwater Horizon surface oil. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.

2017

Herzog, A., & Aeppli, C. (2017). Linking chemical composition to toxicity of fresh and weathered oil samples collected from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Katz, S. D., Nabi, D., & Aeppli, C. (2017). Dynamics of carboxylic acids produced in weathered Deepwater Horizon oil samples and their water solubility. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Lemkau, K., Aeppli, C., Carmichael, C., Reddy, C., Swarthout, R., & White, H. (2017). Lessons Learned from Hurricane Isaac, 2012: False Positives and Weathering of Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. In Goldschmidt 2017. Paris, France : 08/13/17-08/18/17.
Nabi, D., Katz, S. D., & Aeppli, C. (2017). Identification of oxygenated transformation products in weathered Deepwater Horizon oil samples and assessment of their bioaccumulation and toxicity potential. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Nabi, D., Katz, S. D., & Aeppli, C. (2017). Are Oxygenated Hydrocarbons Important Oil Degradation Products After Oil Spills? In International Oil Spill Conference 2017. Long Beach, CA : 05/15/17-05/18/17.
Nabi, D., Zushi, Y., Samanipour, S., Ahmad, F., Arey, J. S., & Aeppli, C. (2017). Passive sampling and GCxGC: When two marry to give better understanding of transport behaviour and fate of micropollutants in environmental waters. In 9th International Passive Sampling Workshop and Symposium. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : 05/31/17 - 06/03/17.
Overton, E., & Reddy, C. M. (2017). Understanding what happens to the composition of crude oils spilled in marine environments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Reddy, C., Gosselin, K., Nelson, R., Sylva, S., Aeppli, C., Sharpless, C., et al. (2017). A Biogenic Input of Heptadecane in Surface Waters Prior to and during the Anthropocene. In Goldschmidt 2017. Paris, France : 08/13/17-08/18/17.
Reddy, C. M. (2017). Am I wrong or should more work be done on the formation of oxygenated hydrocarbons? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Rodgers, R. P., Corilo, Y. E., Podgorski, D. C., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., Lailli, P., et al. (2017). Molecular-level Insights into the Increased Toxicity of Macondo Well Oil Transformation Products. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Rodgers, R. P., Corilo, Y. E., Podgorski, D. C., Rowland, S. M., Lailli, P., Robbins, W. K., et al. (2017). Molecular-level Analysis of Petroleum Interfacially Active Species Reveals the Components Responsible for Stable Emulsion formation. In 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition. San Francisco, CA : 04/02/17-04/06/17.
Rodgers, R. P., Corilo, Y. E., Podgorski, D. C., Rowland, S. M., Lalli, P., Robbins, W. K., et al. (2017). Molecular-level Analysis of Petroleum Interfacially Active Species Reveals the Components Responsible for Stable Emulsion formation. In 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition. San Francisco, CA : 04/02/17-04/06/17.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Smith, D. F., Blakney, G. T., Chacon-Patino, M. L., Putman, J. C., et al. (2017). Contributions of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry to the Field of Petroleomics. In 18th PetroPhase Conference. La Havre, France : 06/11/17-06/15/17.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Smith, D. F., Blakney, G. T., Chacon-Patino, M. L., Putman, J. C., et al. (2017). “Molecular-level Insights into Weathering Processes via High Resolution FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry ”. In Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS 2017). Charlotte, NC : 11/07/17-11/11/17.
Ward, C. P., & Reddy, C. M. (2017). Assessing the contribution of photochemical processes to the formation of oxidized hydrocarbons following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Insights from preliminary laboratory experiments. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Ward, C. P., & Reddy, C. M. (2017). Characterizing the role of photochemical processes in the oxidation of hydrocarbons released during the Deepwater Horizon disaster. In 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition. San Francisco, CA : 04/02/17-04/06/17.
Zito, P., Chen, H., McKenna, A. M., Podgorski, D. C., Rowland, S. M., Lu, J., et al. (2017). Molecular-level Insights into the Increased Toxicity of Crude Oil Environmental Transformation Products. In 65th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. Indianapolis, IN : 06/04/17-06/08/17: Poster.

2016

Aeppli, C., Prince, R., Radovic, J., & Reddy, C. (2016). Prevalence of oxygenated hydrocarbon as oil degradation products after oil spills. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans. LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16: Poster.
Chen, H., Aeppli, C., Valentine, D. L., Nelson, R. K., Reddy, C. M., Kellerman, M., et al. (2016). Natural seeps versus human spill: Characterization and comparison of DWH weathered oil with natural petroleum seeps by ultrahigh resolution FT-ICR mass spectrometry. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans. LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16: Poster.
Clingenpeel, A., Robbins, W. K., Rowland, S. M., Corilo, Y. E., Podgorski, D. C., & Rodgers, R. P. (2016). New Insights into Petroleum Emulsions: A Molecular-level Analysis of Interfacially Active Components Reveals Most Problematic Species. In Petrophase 2016. Elsinore, Denmark : 06/19/16 - 06/23/16.
Green, H. S., Fuller, S. A., Meyer, A. W., Joyce, P., Aeppli, C., Nelson, R. K., et al. (2016). Tar balls collected in the North Atlantic over the past two decades vary substantially. In 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA : 12/12/16-12/16/16: Poster.
Lobodin, V. V., Krajewski, L., Bartges, T. E., Maksimova, E. V., Johansen, C., Lu, J., et al. (2016). Chemical Characterization of the Natural Oil Seeps From GC-600 Lease Block by FT-ICR MS, GC/MS, and API-GC/MS-MS. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Nelson, R. K., & Reddy, C. M. (2016). Petroleum Analysis and Fingerprinting Using Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography (GCxGC). In 19th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference. Fremantle, Australia : 12/04/16-12/07/16: Poster.
Podgorski, D. C., Ray, P. Z., Roland, N. V., Corilo, Y. E., Tarr, M. A., Guillemette, F., et al. (2016). Photochemical Degradation of Petroleum-Derived Water-Soluble Organics into the Background Dissolved Organic Carbon Pool. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans. LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16.
Ray, P. Z., Podgorski, D. C., & Tarr, M. A. (2016). In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans. LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16.
Reddy, C. (2016). The Anthropocene. In 2016 GRC on Organic Geochemistry. Holderness, NH : 07/23/16-07/28/16.
Rodgers, R., Corilo, Y. E., Podgorski, D. C., Rowland, S. M., Lalli, P., Clingenpeel, A. C., et al. (2016). Comprehensive Characterization of Oxygen Heteroatom-Containing Species in Complex Petroleum Mixtures. In 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition. Philadelphia, PA : 08/21/16-08/25/16.
Rodgers, R. P., Clingenpeel, A., Robbins, W., Rowland, S., Corilo, Y., & Podgorski, D. (2016). Molecular Composition of Petroleum Interfacially Active Species: Implications in Emulsion Science. In American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2016. San Antonio, TX : 06/05/16 - 06/09/16.
Rodgers, R. P., Reddy, C. M., & Aeppli, C. A. (2016). The state-of-the-art unraveling of the biotic and abiotic chemical evolution of Macondo Oil: 2010-2018. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., Corilo, Y. E., McKenna, A. M., Clingenpeel, A. C., et al. (2016). Modern Petroleomics. In PittCon 2016 Conference and Expo. Atlanta, GA : 3/06/16 - 03/10/16.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., Corilo, Y. E., McKenna, A. M., Clingenpeel, A. C., et al. (2016). Peroleomic Strategies for Hetero-atom Chemistries. In Analytica 2016. Munich. Germany : 04/10/16 - 04/13/16.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., Corilo, Y. E., McKenna, A. M., Clingenpeel, A. C., et al. (2016). Oil Oxidative Transformation Products Revealed by Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans. LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., Corilo, Y. E., McKenna, A. M., Clingenpeel, A. C., et al. (2016). Petroleomics: Applications of Targeted Analysis for Heteroatom Chemistries. In ACS Spring 2016 Meeting. San Diego, CA : 03/13/16 - 03/17/16.
Rodgers, R. P., Rowland, S. M., Chen, H., Corilo, Y. E., McKenna, A. M., Clingenpeel, A. C., et al. (2016). Oil Oxidative Transformation Products Revealed by Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16.
Sharpless, C., Stewart, O., Walters, M., Swarthout, R., Aeppli, C., & Reddy, C. (2016). Comparison of photooxidation rates and patterns in glass- and water-based oil slick experiments with daily weathering observed in the Gulf of Mexico. In 251th American Chemical Society National Meeting. San Diego, CA : 03/13/16-03/17/16.
Sharpless, C. M., Stewart, O. C., Walters, M., Swarthout, R. F., Aeppli, C., Valentine, D. L., et al. (2016). Comparison of experimental photooxidation rates and patterns in glass- and water-based oil slicks with daily weathering observed in the Gulf of Mexico. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016. New Orleans. LA : 02/21/16-02/26/16: Poster.
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
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