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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Funding Source: Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)

Project Publications & Presentations

Consortium for Advanced Research on Marine Mammal Health Assessment (CARMMHA)

Journal Articles - 10

2021

Cloyed, C. S., Balmer, B. C., Schwacke, L. H., Takeshita, R., Hohn, A., Wells, R. S., et al. (2021). Linking morbillivirus exposure to individual habitat use of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) between geographically different sites. J Anim Ecol, 90(5), 1191–1204.
Murawski, S., Grosell, M., Smith, C., Sutton, T., Halanych, K., Shaw, R., et al. (2021). Impacts of Petroleum, Petroleum Components, and Dispersants on Organisms and Populations. Oceanog, 34(1), 136–151.
Takeshita, R., Bursian, S. J., Colegrove, K. M., Collier, T. K., Deak, K., Dean, K. M., et al. (2021). A review of the toxicology of oil in vertebrates: what we have learned following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 24(8), 355–394.

2020

Barratclough, A., Gomez, F. M., Morey, J. S., Deming, A., Parry, C., Meegan, J. M., et al. (2020). Pregnancy profiles in the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): Clinical biochemical and hematological variations during healthy gestation and a successful outcome. Theriogenology, 142, 92–103.
Cloyed, C. S., DaCosta, K. P., Hodanbosi, M. R., Carmichael, R. H., & Kurle, C. (2020). The effects of lipid extraction on δ13C and δ15N values and use of lipid-correction models across tissues, taxa and trophic groups. Methods Ecol Evol, 11(6), 751–762.
Herrman, J. M., Morey, J. S., Takeshita, R., De Guise, S., Wells, R. S., McFee, W., et al. (2020). Age determination of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) using dental radiography pulp:tooth area ratio measurements. PLoS ONE, 15(11), e0242273.
Linnehan, B. K., Hsu, A., Gomez, F. M., Huston, S. M., Takeshita, R., Colegrove, K. M., et al. (2020). Standardization of Dolphin Cardiac Auscultation and Characterization of Heart Murmurs in Managed and Free-Ranging Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Front. Vet. Sci., 7.

2019

Barratclough, A., Sanz-Requena, R., Marti-Bonmati, L., Schmitt, T. L., Jensen, E., & Garc?a-P?rraga, D. (2019). Radiographic assessment of pectoral flipper bone maturation in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), as a novel technique to accurately estimate chronological age. PLoS ONE, 14(9), e0222722.
Barratclough, A., Wells, R. S., Schwacke, L. H., Rowles, T. K., Gomez, F. M., Fauquier, D. A., et al. (2019). Health Assessments of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Past, Present, and Potential Conservation Applications. Front. Vet. Sci., 6.
De Guise, S., Levin, M. J., Jasperse, L., Risatti, G., & Wells, R. (2019). T Helper Cell Subsets And Their Functions In Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Frontiers in Immunology, 10, Article 1578.

Conference Presentations - 34

2020

Cloyed, C., Balmer, B., Tumlin, M., Zolman, E., Barleycorn, A., Rowles, T., et al. (2020). Spatial, Temporal, and Individual-Level Variation in Northern Gulf of Mexico Common Bottlenose Dolphin Diet. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20: Poster.
Colegrove, K. M. (2020). Emerging Diseaes Threats to Marine Mammals. In 37th Annual West Coast Veterinary Pathology Conference. Davis, CA (Virtual) : 05/01/20-05/02/20.
De Guise, S., Levin, M., Jasperse, L., Herrman, J., Wells, R., Takeshita, R., et al. (2020). Changes in Bottlenose Dolphin Immune Functions Associated With the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Northern Gulf of Mexico – A Recurrence? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20: Poster.
Gomez, F., Colegrove, K., Huston, S., Hsu, A., Linnehan, B., Takeshita, R., et al. (2020). Assessment of Sublethal Cardiac Injury in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Gulf of Mexico Following Exposure to Deepwater Horizon Oil-Associated Chemicals. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20: Poster.
Morey, J. S., Balmer, B. C., Zolman, E. S., Takeshita, R., Rowles, T. K., Smith, C. R., et al. (2020). Transcriptomic Analyses of Bottlenose Dolphin Blood and Skin to Identify Additional Biomarkers and Pathways to Inform Cetacean Health Assessment. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20: Poster.
Ortega-Ortiz, J., Litz, J., Rappucci, G., Aichinger-Dias, L., Martinez, A., Soldevilla, M., et al. (2020). Cetacean Abundance Trends in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
Schwacke, L. H., Smith, C., Gomez, F., Rowles, T., Wells, R., Zolman, E., et al. (2020). Health Trends of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the eight years following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Evidence for lack of resilience. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
Smith, C., Gomez, F., Colegrove, K. M., Rowles, T., Zolman, E., Speakman, T., et al. (2020). Sustained Maternal Illness and Low Reproductive Success Rate in Barataria Bay Bottlenose Dolphins Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
Takeshita, R., Rowles, T. K., Balmer, B. C., Zolman, E. S., Thomas, L., Wells, R., et al. (2020). Health and Behavioral Responses of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Low Salinity Waters Within the Barataria Basin in Louisiana. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20: Poster.
Thomas, L., Marques, T., Schwacke, L. H., Booth, C., Malato, J., Garrison, L., et al. (2020). Population Modelling to Predict Recovery Trajectories of Marine Mammal Stocks Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20: Poster.

2019

Balmer, B., Watwood, S., Speakman, T., Quigley, B., Bolton, J., Rowles, T., et al. (2019). Combining methods to assess exposure of the Northern Coastal Stock of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to multiple environmental stressors. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Barratclough, A., Sanz-Requena, R., Marti-Bonmati, L., Schmitt, T., Jensen, E., & Garcia Parraga, D. (2019). Radiographic assessment of pectoral fin bone maturation in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), as a novel technique to accurately estimate chronological age. In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19.
Booth, C. (2019). The Effect of Upstream Restriction on the Formation of a Free Jet. In 3rd Symposium on Deep-Sea Oil Spills. Hamburg, Germany : 12/05/19-12/05/19.
Cloyed, C., Balmer, B., Zolman, E., Tumlin, M., Barleycorn, A., Rowles, T., et al. (2019). Spatial, temporal, and individual-level variation in northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) diet. In 25th Biennial CERF Conference. Mobile, AL : 11/03/19-11/07/19: Poster.
Cloyed, C., Balmer, B., Zolman, E., Tumlin, M., Barleycorn, A., Rowles, T., et al. (2019). Spatial, temporal, and individual-level variation in northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) diet. In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19: Poster.
Cloyed, C., Tumlin, M., Rowles, T., Schwacke, L., Smith, C., Balmer, B., et al. (2019). The Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Bottlenose Dolphin Diets. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.
Colegrove, K. M. (2019). Pathology of cetaceans in the 10 years following an environmental disaster: Perspectives from the Gulf of Mexico. In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19.
De Guise, S., Levin, M., Jasperse, L., Gebhard, E., Herrman, J., Smith, C., et al. (2019). Changes in bottlenose dolphin immune functions associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico, a recurrence? In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19.
De Guise, S., Levin, M., Jasperse, L., Gebhard, E., Herrmann, J., Smith, C., et al. (2019). Recurrence of Bottlenose Dolphin Immune Function Changes Associated With the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Garrison, L. P., Soldevilla, M., Martinez, A., Kiszka, J., Boswell, K., Hildebrand, J., et al. (2019). The Trophic Ecology and Habitat of the Gulf of Mexico Brydes Whale. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Gomez, F., Colegrove, K., Huston, S., Hsu, A., Linnehan, B., Takeshita, R., et al. (2019). Assessment of sublethal cardiac injury in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Gulf of Mexico following exposure to Deepwater Horizon oil associated chemicals. In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19.
Napolitano, M., Broadwater, M., Schock, T. B., Takeshita, R., Rowles, T. K., & Schwacke, L. H. (2019). LIpidomics of Dolphin Serum to Assess Physiological and Ecological Changes Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In 67th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. Atlanta, GA : 06/02/19-06/06/19: Poster.
Napolitano, M., Broadwater, M., Schock, T. B., Takeshita, R., Rowles, T. K., & Schwacke, L. H. (2019). LIpidomics of Dolphin Serum to Assess Physiological and Ecological Changes Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In 20th International Symposium on Pollutant Responses In Marine Organisms (PRIMO20). Charleston, SC : 05/19/19-05/22/19: Poster.
Schwacke, L. H., Thomas, L., Smith, C., Bossart, G., Burt, L., De Guise, S., et al. (2019). Veterinary Expert System for Outcome Prediction (VESOP): A Bayesian model to predict changes in cetacean population vital rates from measures of individual health. In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19.
Smith, C., Gomez, F., Colegrove, C., Rowles, T., Balmer, B., Takeshita, R., et al. (2019). The Long-Term Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Bottlenose Dolphins and the Development of Advanced Diagnostic Tools to Better Characterize Injury and Recovery. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Smith, C., Gomez, F., Ivancic, M., Musser, W., Barratclough, A., Meegan, J., et al. (2019). New diagnostic techniques to characterize fetal, placental, and maternal health in bottlenose dolphins following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19.
Takeshita, R., Balmer, B., Zolman, E., Thomas, L., Wells, R., Rowles, T., et al. (2019). Behavioral responses of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to changes in salinity within the Barataria Basin in Louisiana. In World Marine Mammal Conference 2019. Barcelona, Spain : 12/09/19-12/12/19.
Thomas, L., Schwacke, L., Booth, C., Garrison, L., Rosel, P., Mullin, K., et al. (2019). Integrative Modelling of Marine Mammal Populations Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.
Vollmer, N. L., Wilcox, L. A., & Rosel, P. E. (2019). Genetic Data Suggest Sex-biased Dispersal among Sperm Whales in the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Vollmer, N. L., Wilcox, L. A., & Rosel, P. E. (2019). Environmental DNA Assay for Detection of the Rare Gulf of Mexico Brydes Whale. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.
Wells, R. (2019). Cetaceans as sentinels of ecosystem health in the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.

2018

Cloyed, C. S., & Carmichael, R. H. (2018). The effects of lipid extraction on d13C and d15N ratios across taxa, tissues, and trophic groups. In Gulf Estuarine Research Society Fall 2018. Galveston, TX : 11/08/18-11/10/18.
Cloyed, C. S., & Carmichael, R. H. (2018). The effects of lipid extraction on d13C and d15N ratios across taxa, tissues, and trophic groups. In 2018 Bays and Bayous Symposium. Mobile, AL : 11/28/18-11/29/18.
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org