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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Funding Source: Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)

Project Member Institutions

Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers 2 (ADDOMEx-2): Towards a synthesis of process and pathways of marine oil snow formation

Mount Allison University

Department of Geography and Environment

Michael Bradet-Legris
Undergraduate Student
Zoe Finkel
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Catherine Fiset
Undergraduate Student
Yue Liang
Post-Doc

Mathematics and Computer Science

Andrew Irwin
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead

Ocean Lakes High School

Maddy Hughey
High School Student

Old Dominion University

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Hogmei Chen
Post-Doc,
Data Team
Christopher Devries
Undergraduate Student
Patrick Hatcher
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Cole Jackson
Undergraduate Student
Brett Pattijohn
High School Student
Derek Waggoner
Post-Doc,
Data Team

Texas A&M University

Department of Oceanography

Shahd Allenjal
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Shawn Doyle
Post-Doc
Genmai Lin
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Makeda Mills
Undergraduate Student
Dawei Shi
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Jason Sylvan
Co-Principal Investigator

Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

Tracy Fulton
Research Staff
Anthony Hayden Knap
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead
Yina Liu
Research Scientist
Jose Sericano
Research Scientist
Terry Wade
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead

Sponsored Research Services

Natalie Bienski
Administrative Staff
Janice Blum
Administrative Staff

Texas A&M University at Galveston

Marine Biology Department

Stacie Arms
Administrative Staff
Charles Bergen
Undergraduate Student
Juliisa Freund
Undergraduate Student
Jennifer Genzer
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Jessica Hillhouse
Outreach Point of Contact,
Data Team,
Outreach Team,
Graduate Student - Master's Level
Britiny Light
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Savannah Mapes
Undergraduate Student
Andrew Mondragon
Undergraduate Student
Michelle Nguyen
Undergraduate Student
Austin Perez
Undergraduate Student
Antonietta Quigg
Principal Investigator,
Program Manager / Technical Coordinator,
Task Lead,
Outreach Point of Contact
Christian Taylor
Undergraduate Student
Rachel Windham
Research Staff
Alexandra Yard
Undergraduate Student

Marine Sciences Department

Peng Lin
Research Scientist
Lauren Mennen
Undergraduate Student
Nicole Patterson
Undergraduate Student
Peter Santschi
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead
Kathleen (Kathy) Schwehr
Project Data Point of Contact,
Task Lead,
Task Data Contact,
Research Scientist
Luni Sun
Research Scientist
Charlotte Tassin
Administrative Staff
Chen Xu
Research Scientist

University of California Merced

School of Engineering

Wei-Chun Chin
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Co-Lead
Cynthia Garcia
Undergraduate Student
Agnes Kagiri
Undergraduate Student
Clarence Le
Data Team,
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Chanh Nguyen
Undergraduate Student
Javier Ramos
Undergraduate Student
Nicole Sanchez
Undergraduate Student
Angelo Sibal
Undergraduate Student
Christian Tran
Undergraduate Student
Shih-Ming (Ming) Tsai
Graduate Student - PhD Level
Carlos Vazquez
Graduate Student - PhD Level,
Undergraduate Student

University of California Santa Barbara

Marine Science Institute

Uta Passow
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead

University of New Hampshire

Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS)

Kai Ziervogel
Co-Principal Investigator,
Task Lead
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org