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August 8, 2017 GoMRI eNews
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The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) is pleased to announce a new Sea Grant informational publication that explains how researchers and response managers estimate the movement and landfall of an oil spill.
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Researchers analyzed bacterial communities exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil and identified taxa and genes associated with oil degradation and assimilation. The scientists found that Marinobacter and Alcanivorax dominated alkane-degrading communities, while Alteromonadales, Oceanospirillales, and Rhodospirillales dominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading communities.
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Scientists and outreach personnel created an on-line resource that examines two major oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico: The Deepwater Horizon in the northern Gulf and the Ixtoc in the southern Gulf. Beneath the Horizon website, developed by the C-IMAGE research group and Jake Price Productions, explores these spills, the people who coped with and responded to these disasters, and expectations for recovery.
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Scientists constructed a food web model using data from published studies and their field experiences to understand how specific Louisiana salt marsh organisms influenced ecosystem response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The researchers found that carnivorous fishes were “critically resilient” and likely enhanced food web resilience.
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Posted on July 27, 2016
Scientists developed the first molecular-level comparison of photochemical effects on surrogate and Macondo (MC252) oil to better understand this weathering process and the toxicity mechanisms it produces.
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Posted on July 28, 2015
Boryoung Shin is breaking new ground in microbiology, uncovering little known facts about an enigmatic and important species in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Posted on July 30, 2014
A new discovery of two additional coral communities showing signs of damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill expands the impact footprint of the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery was made by a team led by Charles Fisher, professor of biology at Penn State University.
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Study Finds Advanced Oil Weathering Processes from Sunlight and Aerobic Microbes
Impact of photooxidation and biodegradation on the fate of oil spilled during the Deepwater Horizon incident: Advanced stages of weathering, Harriman, B.; Zito, P.; Podgorski, D.C.; Tarr, M.A.; Suflita, J.M., Environmental Science & Technology, 2017, 51 (13), pp 7412–7421
Modeling Study Identifies Collision Mechanisms and Trends for Oil Drops and Marine Particle Aggregates
Collision of oil droplets with marine aggregates: Effect of droplet size, Lambert, R.A.; Variano, E.A., Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Volume 121, Issue 5, May 2016, Pages 3250–3260
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Macrofauna Abundance in the Southern Gulf of Mexico, 2015 -- data link
R/V Endeavor: EN559 Water Column Chemistry and microbial process rate measurements, Gulf of Mexico, May 29 - June 20, 2015 -- data link
Individual Measurements from trawl surveys of fish and invertebrates in Coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and the Chandeleur Islands, April-July 2015 -- data link
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RFP IV Update: Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems II (Murawski) - The overarching objective of C-IMAGE II is: to advance understanding of the processes and mechanisms involved in marine blowouts and their environmental consequences.
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News! 2018 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference
- Registration Fee Waived for Students Giving Presentations The Gulf Research Program, the Gulf of Mexico University Research Collaborative, and the Harte Research Institute are providing registration waivers for students who are giving oral or poster presentations. Students should submit abstracts and identify that they are a student. Registration waivers will be included with presentation acceptance notifications in late October.
- Call for Workshops The conference will provide a meeting room and AV equipment and help promote workshops. If you wish to organize a conference workshop, see details and submit required information to the conference organizers (gulfconference@oceanleadership.org). Workshop proposals will be accepted on a "first come, first served" basis.
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