GoMRI

Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.

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University of South Alabama

307 University Blvd. N.
Mobile, AL 36688

GoMRI Funded Projects

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)

Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (ACER)

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

Consortium for Oil Spill Exposure Pathways in Coastal River-Dominated Ecosystems (CONCORDE)

Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)

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

Bridge Grants (RFP-III)

Floating Sargassum Communities of the Gulf of Mexico: Data Collection for the Continued Assessment of Associated Faunal Assemblages, Trophic Interations and Habitat Function in the Wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Year One Block Grant - Florida Institute of Oceanography

Acute Effects of Oil on Northern Gulf of Mexico Reefs and Reef Communities

Assessing the Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coastal Waters of the Florida Panhandle: Water Sediments and Fish

Effects of a Major Oil Spill on Nektonic Assemblages of Salt Marshes and Adjacent SAV Habitats in Florida and Alabama

Year One Block Grant - The Alabama Marine Environmental Science Consortium

Analysis of the Biodegradative Microbial Population and their Genes in Deepwater Horizon Oil Contaminated Water and Sediments of Coastal Alabama

Assessing the Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Diamondback Terrapin: a Top Carnivore and Keystone Species in the Salt Marshes of Alabama

Chemical Engineering Applications to Study the Chemical Evolution and Biological Degradation of the Oil-Dispersant Systems and Subsequent Interaction with the Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

Composing Gridded Surface Wind Field Data through Observations and Numerical Modeling

Enhanced Detection of Hydrocabons through Optical Scattering

Feasibility study of applying multi-spectral acoustical imaging techniques to estimate physical distribution of oil-derived substances in the water columns in the Alabama Gulf coast and Mobile Bay

Flow Structures on the Northern Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico Using Drifters and Underway Velocity Profiles

Framework for Dynamic Configuration and Interoperability of Heterogeneous Off-shore Oil Spill Wireless Sensor Networks

Gene Quantification to Elucidate Intrinsic Bioremediation Potential and Efficacy in the Oil Impacted Gulf Sediment

Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Integrity: Resilience of Seagrass Beds to Oil Contamination

Hyperspectral Imaging based Estimation of Physical Distribution, Dispersion and Dilution of Contaminants

Identifying Transport Pathways and Quantifying Exchange in Alabama's Coastal Waters: from the Shelf to the Delta

Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Releases on the Functional Integrity of Salt Marshes and Seagrass Meadows and Associated Fauna

Improving Deepwater Horizon Risk Assessment for Large Pelagic Rays: Global Scale Positioning Via Satellite Telemetry

In-Situ WSN to Monitor the Transport and Dispersion of Oil-Derived Substances

Investigating the Fisheries Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster through Socioeconomic Surveys

Investigation of the Three Dimensional Eulerian Flow and Resulting Lagrangian Transport Pathways on the Alabama Shelf pathways on the Alabama shelf

Modeling of Circulation and Physical Transport for the Alabama Coastal Waters to Assess Transport and Distribution of Oil-Derived Substances

Recovery: Benthic Meiofauna Survey

Recovery: Plankton

Recovery: Sentinel Macrofauna

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf Institute

Does the 'Priming Effect' Caused by the DWH Oil-spill Result in Increased Microbial and Zooplankton Consumption of Labile and Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon? Phase II

Impacts of the Deep Horizon Accident on Food Web Structure in the North Central Gulf of Mexico

Impacts of the Deep Horizon Oil Spill on Ecosystem Structure and Function in Alabama's Marine Waters

NIUST Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Multi-Task Research Proposal

Quantifying the Effects of Oil Exposure on the Carbon Cycling and Diversity of Pelagic Microbial Community of Coastal Alabama

People

Coastal Resource and Resiliency Center

Curtis, Joycelyn
Gilliam, Brandi
Ikefuna, Chia
Lowman, Janel
McCord, Selena
Means, Bria
Nicholls, Keith
Picou, Steven J.
Smith, Keagan
Wood, Alyssa

Department of Biology

Boettcher, Anne
Carrier, Jessica (Dean)
Chadhain, Sinead Ni
Chang, Robert
Cooper, Brad
Dueker, Marissa
Finley, J. Bradley
Kronmiller, Kelsie
Lee, Lacey
Madsen, Shanna
Major, Kelly (Machalek)
Nelson, David
Steele, LaTina

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

Dulaney, Bennett
Lee, Jung-Woo
Marr, Chris
Webb, Bret
White, Kevin

Department of Earth Sciences

Brown, David
Kimball, Sytske

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Adams, Mark L.
Al-Assadi, Waleed
Alam, Mohammad S.
Alsharif, Salim
Chy, Mohammad Nizamuddin
Gollapalli, Ravi
Nelson, Derrick
Patrabansh, Shruti
Sakla, Adel
Sidike, Paheding
Syed, Misbah

Department of Marine Sciences

Ajemian, Matthew
Baltzer, Katherine (Katie)
Barnes, Gracie
Bennett, Clayton
Boyle, Kelly
Cole, Liesl
Dahl, Kristen
Drymon, J. Marcus
Dykstra, Steve
Friedl, Sarah
Gadeken, Kara
Kiene, Ronald
Lewis, Justin
Leynse, Alexander
Macy, Aaron
Metzger, Rachel
Norberg, Michael
Novoveska, Lucie
Ortell-Cumbaa, Natalie
Ortmann, Alice
Parker, Ryan
Patterson, William Frank, III
Powers, Sean
Robertson, Alison
Schrandt, Meagan
Seubert, Emily
Spearman, Trey
Wang, Lei
Wilking, Lynn

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work

Wilson, Orlando