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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Funding Source: Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)

Project Member Institutions

Chemical evolution and plant-microbe degradation of petroleum in saline marsh plants and soils

Duke University

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Claudia Gunsch
Co-Principal Investigator

Louisiana State University

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Olivia Bramlet
Undergraduate Student
William Coronel
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Devon Dao
Undergraduate Student
Matt Decell
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Vijai Elango
Post-Doc
Grace Lowry
Undergraduate Student
John Pardue
Co-Principal Investigator
Kristina Sebastian
Graduate Student - Master's Level,
Undergraduate Student
Trevor Warner
Undergraduate Student

Department of Environmental Sciences

Joyce Kassenga
Graduate Student - Master's Level

Lusher Charter High School

Keiana Cave
High School Student

Tulane University

Center for Bioenvironmental Research

Shelley Meaux
Administrative Staff

Center for Computational Science

Lisa Fauci
Research Scientist

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Margaret Hayes
Undergraduate Student
Alexander Nydell
Undergraduate Student
Kyriakos D. Papadopoulos
Co-Principal Investigator
Vicky Wang
Undergraduate Student
Sonya Zheng
Graduate Student - PhD Level

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Michael J. Blum
Research Scientist
Stephen Formel
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Rachel Froehlich
Undergraduate Student
Allyson Martin
Undergraduate Student
Sunshine Van Bael
Principal Investigator,
Project Data Point of Contact

Department of Mathematics

John LaGrone
Post-Doc
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org