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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Funding Source: Year One Block Grant - Florida Institute of Oceanography

Project Member Institutions

Baseline and Oil Spill Impacted Marine Sponge Microbial Communities and Gene Expression Analysis with Metagenomics

Florida Atlantic University

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Peter McCarthy
Co-Principal Investigator

Florida International University

Department of Biological Sciences

Rebecca Vega Thurber
Co-Principal Investigator

Department of Chemistry

Piero Gardinali
Research Staff

Nova Southeastern University

Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences

Jose V. Lopez
Principal Investigator,
Project Data Point of Contact

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography

Patricia Blackwelder
Co-Principal Investigator
Emily Smith
Graduate Student - Master's Level

Ocean Ridge Biosciences

David Willoughby
Research Staff
Yonggan Wu
Research Staff

The University of Chicago - Argonne National Laboratory

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jack A. Gilbert
Program Manager / Technical Coordinator

University of South Florida

College of Marine Science

Valdosta State University

Department of Biology

Gretchen Bielmyer
Research Staff
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org