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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Funding Source: Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science Consortium

Project Publications & Presentations

Microbial Responses to Hydrocarbon and Dispersant-Lab and Field-based Studies

Journal Articles - 4

2013

Mortazavi, B., Horel, A., Beazley, M. J., & Sobecky, P. A. (2013). Intrinsic rates of petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation in Gulf of Mexico intertidal sandy sediments and its enhancement by organic substrates. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 224-245, 537–544.

2012

Beazley, M. J., Martinez, R. J., Rajan, S., Powell, J., Piceno, Y. M., Tom, L. M., et al. (2012). Microbial Community Analysis of a Coastal Salt Marsh Affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e41305.
Horel, A., Mortazavi, B., & Sobecky, P. A. (2012). Seasonal Monitoring of Hydrocarbon Degraders in Alabama Marine Ecosystems Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Water Air Soil Pollut, 223(6), 3145–3154.
Horel, A., Mortazavi, B., & Sobecky, P. A. (2012). Responses of microbial community from northern gulf of mexico sandy sediments following exposure to Deepwater horizon crude oil. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 31(5), 1004–1011.

Conference Presentations - 14

2012

Mortazavi, B., Horel, A., Sobecky, P., Powell, J., & Beazley, M. (2012). Naturally occurring marine organic substrates enhance microbial degradation of Macondo well crude oil. In American Chemical Society Meeting. San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Mortazavi, B., Horel, A., Sobecky, P., Powell, J., & Beazley, M. (2012). Naturally occurring marine organic substrates enhance microbial degradation of Macondo well crude oil. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.

2011

Beazley, M., Martinez, R., Rajan, S., Powell, J., Piceno, Y., Tom, L., et al. (2011). Microbial community analysis of an Alabama coastal salt marsh impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2011.
Beazley, M., Martinez, R., Rajan, S., Powell, J., Piceno, Y., Tom, L., et al. (2011). Microbial Community Responses in a Coastal Alabama Marsh to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In International Symposium of Subsurface Microbiology Annual Meeting. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, September 11-16, 2011.
Donahoe, R. J., Bej, A., Raulerson, A., & Rentschler, E. K. (2011). Experimental microcosm study of the effects of Deepwater Horizon MC-252 oil on the geochemistry and microbiology of Gulf Coast sediment. In AGU Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2011.
Horel, A., Mortazavi, B., & Sobecky, P. (2011). Characterization of hydrocarbon degraders from coastal Alabama marsh sediments. In Benthic Ecology Annual Meeting 2011. Mobile, AL : 03/16/11-03/20/11.
Horel, A., Mortazavi, B., & Sobecky, P. (2011). Enhancing biodegradation of crude oil from the Macondo Well in Alabama Beaches. In Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Meeting. Pensacola, FL, April 26-28, 2011.
Lu, Y., Canuel, E., Yamashita, Y., Bauer, J., Chambers, R., & Jaffe, R. (2011). Sources and Reactivity of DOM in Headwater Streams of Differing Land Uses in a Temperate Watershed. In IWA Specialty Conference on Natural Organic Matter. Costa Mesa, CA, July 27-29, 2011.
Mortazavi, B., Horel, A., Sobecky, P., Powell, J., & Beazley, M. (2011). Naturally occurring marine organic substrates enhance microbial degradation of Macondo well crude oil. In Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference. Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL, November 6-10, 2011.
Powell, J., Rajan, S., Beazley, M., Martinez, R., Piceno, Y., Andersen, G., et al. (2011). Assessing seasonal and potential hydrocarbon influences on coastal Alabama Vibrio population dynamics. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA, May 2011.
Rajan, S., Beazley, M., Powell, J., Martinez, R., Piceno, Y., Andersen, G., et al. (2011). Coastal AL Microbial Responses to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA, May 2011.
Rentschler, E. K., & Donahoe, R. J. (2011). Impact of Deepwater Horizon oil contamination on the aqueous geochemistry of salt marsh sediment/seawater microcosms. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2011.
Sobecky, P., Beazley, M., Martinez, R., Rajan, S., Powell, J., Piceno, Y., et al. (2011). Coastal Alabama Bacterial Community Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA, July 24-28, 2011.

2010

Sobecky, P. (2010). Alabama Coastal Microbial Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Spill. In International Symposium for Microbial Ecology (ISME). Seattle, WA, August 22-27, 2010.
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org