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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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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. (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. Environmental Research Letters, 9(12), 124003.
Ortmann, A. C., & Ortell, N. (2014). Changes in free-living bacterial community diversity reflect the magnitude of environmental variability. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 87(1), 291-301.

2013

Powers, S. P., Hernandez, F. J., Condon, R. H., Drymon, J. M., & Free, C. M. (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. (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. (2012). Dispersed Oil Disrupts Microbial Pathways in Pelagic Food Webs. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e42548.

Conference Presentations - 5

2011

Cox, D. B., K.; Hernandez, F. G., & 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
Ortmann, A. M., R.C.; Anders, J. C., & R (2011). Characterizing the coastal microbial community response to oil and dispersant exposure. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting
Ortmann, A. M., & R.C.; Condon, R. (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

2010

Graham, W. C., R.H.; Carmichael, R. D., I.; Patterson, H. L., L.; Hernandez, J., & F (2010). Entry of oil (carbon) into the coastal planktonic food web during the Deepwater Horizon spill. In AGU Fall Meeting
Graham, W. C., R.H.; Carmichael, R. D., I.; Patterson, H. B., & 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
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org