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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

Recovery: Plankton

Journal Articles - 6
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
Carassou, L., Hernandez, F. J., & Graham, W. M. (2014). Change and recovery of coastal mesozooplankton community structure during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Environ. Res. Lett., 9(12), 124003.
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.
2013
Powers, S. P., Hernandez, F. J., Condon, R. H., Drymon, J. M., Free, C. M., & Moustafa, A. (2013). Novel Pathways for Injury from Offshore Oil Spills: Direct, Sublethal and Indirect Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Pelagic Sargassum Communities. PLoS ONE, 8(9), e74802.
2012
Bik, H. M., Halanych, K. M., Sharma, J., Thomas, W. K., & Moustafa, A. (2012). Dramatic Shifts in Benthic Microbial Eukaryote Communities following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. PLoS ONE, 7(6), e38550.
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.
Conference Presentations - 5
2011
Cox, D., Bayha, K., Hernandez, F., & Graham, W. (2011). Identifying fish egg assemblages at risk in the northern Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Larval Fish Annual Conference. Wilmington, NC, May 22-26, 2011: Poster.
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
Graham, W. M., Condon, R. H., Carmichael, R. H., D'Ambra, I., Patterson, H., Linn, L., et al. (2010). Entry of oil (carbon) into the coastal planktonic food web during the Deepwater Horizon spill. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA December 13-17, 2010.
Graham, W. M., Condon, R. H., Carmichael, R. H., D'Ambra, I., Patterson, H. K., & Brandes, J. (2010). Oil carbon entered the coastal microbial & planktonic food web during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Meeting. InteCrete, Greece : 10/10/10-10/14/10: Poster.

This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org