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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Katherine Haines Freeman

Pennsylvania State University

Department of Geosciences

503 Deike Building
University Park, PA  16802  

kate@essc.psu.edu

Project List:

Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems III (C-IMAGE III)

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems II (C-IMAGE II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems (C-IMAGE)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead, Task Co-Lead

Assessing the Concentration and the Molecular and Isotropic Composition of Deep sea Submerged Oils in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Year One Block Grant - Florida Institute of OceanographyRole: Research Staff

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2

2018

Nguyen, U. T., Lincoln, S. A., Valladares Juarez, A. G., Schedler, M., Macalady, J. L., Muller, R., et al. (2018). The influence of pressure on crude oil biodegradation in shallow and deep Gulf of Mexico sediments. PLoS One, 13(7), e0199784.

2015

Lincoln, S. A., Hamilton, T. L., Valladares Juárez, A. G., Schedler, M., Macalady, J. L., Müller, R., et al. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of the Piezotolerant and Crude Oil-Degrading BacteriumRhodococcus qingshengiiStrain TUHH-12. Genome Announc., 3(2), e00268–15.

Book Chapter - 1

2019

Lincoln, S. A., Radovic, J. R., Gracia, A., Jaggi, A., Oldenburg, T. B. P., Larter, S. R., et al. (2019). Molecular Legacy of the 1979 Ixtoc 1 Oil Spill in Deep-Sea Sediments of the Southern Gulf of Mexico. In S. A. Murawski, C. H. Ainsworth, S. A. Gilbert, D. J. Hollander, C. B. Paris, M. Schlüter, et al. (Eds.), Deep Oil Spills – Facts, Fate, and Effects (pp. 312–327). Springer International.

Conference Presentations - 14

2017

Nguyen, U., Lincoln, S. A., Valladares Juaraez, A. G., Schedler, M., Macalady, J., Mueller, R., et al. (2017). The influence of pressure on crude oil biodegradation in shallow and deep Gulf of Mexico sediments. In 20th Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology Student Symposium. State College, PA : 04/21/17-04/22/17.
Nguyen, U., Lincoln, S. A., Valladares Juaraez, A. G., Schedler, M., Macalady, J., Mueller, R., et al. (2017). Experimental Investigation of Live-Oil Behavior under Artificial Deep-Sea Conditions. In Third International Symposium on Multiscale Multiphase Process Engineering (MMPE2017). Toyama, Japan : 05/08/17-05/11/17: Poster.
Nguyen, U., Lincoln, S. A., Valladares Juaraez, A. G., Schedler, M., Macalady, J., Mueller, R., et al. (2017). The influence of pressure on crude oil biodegradation in shallow and deep Gulf of Mexico sediments. In Penn State Department of Geosciences, 49th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium. State College, PA : 03/23/17-03/24/17: Poster.
Radovic, J. R., Lincoln, S. A., Silva, R. C., Jaggi, A., Romero, I. C., Schwing, P. T., et al. (2017). The 1979 Ixtoc-I oil spill revisited. In Goldschmidt 2017. Paris, France : 08/13/17-08/18/17.

2016

Nguyen, U., Lincoln, S., Valladares Juarez, A. G., Schedler, M., Macalady, J., Müller, R., et al. (2016). Biodegradation of crude oil in shallow and deep Gulf of Mexico sediments. In Organic Geochemistry Gordon Research Conference. Holderness, NH : 07/24/16-07/29/16: Poster.

2015

Lincoln, S., Hollander, D., & Freeman, K. (2015). Snow on the Seafloor: Characterization and quantification of carbohydrates in deep-sea sediments impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA : 12/12/15-12/16/15: Poster.
Lincoln, S. A., Hollander, D. J., & Freeman, K. H. (2015). Marine snow and methanotrophy: Microbial responses and hydrocarbon sedimentation following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In 27th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG). Prague, Czech Republic : 09/13/15-09/18/15.

2014

Freeman, K. (2014). How to survive a career in organic geochemistry, and have fun while doing so. In Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry. Holderness, NH : 08/03/14 - 08/08/14.
Freeman, K. (2014). Isotopes: Beyond Carbon. In Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry. Holderness, NH : 08/03/14 - 08/08/14.
Lincoln, S., Romero, I., Hollander, D., Macalady, J., & Freeman, K. (2014). Post-DWH sedimentation: insights from archaeal tetraether lipids. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Lincoln, S., Valladares-Juarez, A. G., Kadimesetty, H. S., Schedler, M., Muller, R., Macalady, J., et al. (2014). Microbial community succession and hydrocarbon biodegradation in surface and seafloor pressure incubations. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Lincoln, S., Valladares-Juarez, A. G., Schedler, M., Kadimesetty, H. S., Muller, R., Macalady, J., et al. (2014). Hydrocarbon Biodegradation and Bacterial Succession in Surface and Seafloor Pressure Incubations. In Goldschmidt 2014 Conference. Sacramento, CA : 06/08/14-06/13/14.

2011

Hollander, D., Freeman, K., Ellis, G., Diefendorf, A., Goddard, E., Peebles, E., et al. (2011). Why subsurface oils associated with the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout are so long-lived and remain toxic?: A molecular organic geochemical perspective. In Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oceanography. August 2011.
Hollander, D., Freeman, K., Ellis, G., Diefendorf, A., Peebles, E., & Paul, J. (2011). Long-Lived, Sub-Surface Layers of Toxic Oil in the Deep-Sea: A Molecular Organic and Isotopic Geochemical Approach to Understanding their Nature, Molecular Distribution, Origin and Impacts to the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In American Geophysical Union National Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 2011.