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Steven L. Morey

Florida State University

Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS)

2000 Levy Avenue, Bldg. A, Suite 292
P.O. Box 3062741
Tallahassee, FL  323062741  

smorey@coaps.fsu.edu

Project List:

Consortium for Simulation of Oil-Microbial Interactions in the Ocean (CSOMIO)

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Project Data Point of Contact

Deepsea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico (DEEP-C)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

A Coordinated Modeling Approach in Support of Oil Spill Tracking

Year One Block Grant - Florida Institute of OceanographyRole: Co-Principal Investigator

Coast Watch: Remote Sensing and Verification Sampling of Oil Spill Impact on Florida Coast

Year One Block Grant - Florida Institute of OceanographyRole: Research Scientist

Automated Mapping of Surface Oil Spill: Surface Physics and Remote Sensing Associated with Movement and Identification of a Slick

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Co-Principal Investigator

Impact of Crude Oil on Coastal and Ocean Environments of the West Florida Shelf and Big Bend Region from the Shoreline to the Continental Shelf Edge

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Task Co-Lead

NGI BP Earth System Modeling (Phase II)

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Co-Principal Investigator, Project Data Point of Contact

OIL: Community Earth Modeling System for the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Research Staff

Uncertainty Quantification of Oil Spill Transport

Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf InstituteRole: Co-Principal Investigator

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 12

2021

Ainsworth, C. H., Chassignet, E. P., French-McCay, D., Beegle-Krause, C. J., Berenshtein, I., Englehardt, J., et al. (2021). Ten years of modeling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Environmental Modelling & Software, 142, 105070.
Dukhovskoy, D. S., Morey, S. L., Chassignet, E. P., Chen, X., Coles, V. J., Cui, L., et al. (2021). Development of the CSOMIO Coupled Ocean-Oil-Sediment- Biology Model. Front. Mar. Sci., 8, E629299.
Solo-Gabriele, H. M., Fiddaman, T., Mauritzen, C., Ainsworth, C., Abramson, D. M., Berenshtein, I., et al. (2021). Towards integrated modeling of the long-term impacts of oil spills. Marine Policy, 131, 104554.

2020

Shropshire, T. A., Morey, S. L., Chassignet, E. P., Bozec, A., Coles, V. J., Landry, M. R., et al. (2020). Quantifying spatiotemporal variability in zooplankton dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico with a physical-biogeochemical model. Biogeosciences, 17(13), 3385–3407.

2018

Ye, L., Manning, A. J., Hsu, T. - J., Morey, S., Chassignet, E. P., & Ippolito, T. A. (2018). Novel Application of Laboratory Instrumentation Characterizes Mass Settling Dynamics of Oil-Mineral Aggregates (OMAs) and Oil-Mineral-Microbial Interactions. mar technol soc j, 52(6), 87–90.

2016

Ozgokmen, T. M., Chassignet, E., Dawson, C., Dukhovskoy, D., Jacobs, G., Ledwell, J., et al. (2016). Over What Area Did the Oil and Gas Spread During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill? Oceano, 29(3), 96–107.

2015

Dukhovskoy, D. S., Leben, R. R., Chassignet, E. P., Hall, C. A., Morey, S. L., & Nedbor-Gross, R. (2015). Characterization of the uncertainty of loop current Metrics using a multidecadal numerical simulation and altimeter observations. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 100, 140–158.
Nguyen, T. - T., Morey, S. L., Dukhovskoy, D. S., & Chassignet, E. P. (2015). Nonlocal impacts of the Loop Current on cross-slope near-bottom flow in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42(8), 2926–2933.

2014

Nedbor-Gross, R., Dukhovskoy, D. S., Bourassa, M. A., Morey, S. L., & Chassignet, E. P. (2014). Investigation of the Relationship Between the Yucatan Channel Transport and the Loop Current Area in a Multidecadal Numerical Simulation. mar technol soc j, 48(4), 15–26.
Todd, A. C., Morey, S. L., & Chassignet, E. P. (2014). Circulation and cross-shelf transport in the Florida Big Bend. J Mar Res, 72(6), 445–475.
Zavala-Hidalgo, J., Romero-Centeno, R., Mateos-Jasso, A., Morey, S. L., & Martínez-López, B. (2014). The response of the Gulf of Mexico to wind and heat flux forcing: What has been learned in recent years? Atmósfera, 27(3), 317–334.

2013

Garcia-Pineda, O., MacDonald, I., Hu, C., Svejkovsky, J., Hess, M., Dukhovskoy, D., et al. (2013). Detection of Floating Oil Anomalies From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill With Synthetic Aperture Radar. Oceanography, 26(2), 124–137.

Conference Presentations - 23

2020

Laxenaire, R., Dukhovskoy, D. S., Morey, S., Chassignet, E. P., & Chen, X. (2020). Lagrangian-Eulerian mapping in CSOMIO coupled ocean-oil-sediment-biology model. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. San Diego, CA : 02/16/20-02/21/20: Poster.
Morey, S., Chassignet, E. P., Dukhovskoy, D. S., Harris, C. K., Coles, V., Stukel, M., et al. (2020). A coupled modeling system for simulating oil-biological-sediment interactions in the ocean. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
Morey, S. L., Chassignet, E. P., Dukhovskoy, D. S., Harris, C. K., Coles, V., Stukel, M. R., et al. (2020). A coupled modeling system for simulating oil-biological-sediment interactions in the ocean. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. San Diego, CA : 02/16/20-02/21/20: Poster.
Shropshire, T., Morey, S. L., Chassignet, E. P., Coles, V., Karnauskas, M., Landry, M. R., et al. (2020). Zooplankton validation in a physical-biogeochemical model with potentially valuable applications to fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. San Diego, CA : 02/16/20-02/21/20: Poster.
Thyng, K. M., Xomchuk, V. R., Kobashi, D., Qu, L., Hetland, R. D., Dukhovskoy, D., et al. (2020). Offline Tracer Advection in a Realistic Regional Ocean Model. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. San Diego, CA : 02/16/20-02/21/20: Poster.

2019

Dukhovskoy, D. S., Morey, S. L., & Chassignet, E. (2019). Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon: Uncertainties and Challenges in Numerical Simulations of the Oil Spill. In 2019 AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA : 12/09/19-12/13/19.
Morey, S. L., Chassignet, E., Dukhovskoy, D., Stukel, M., Harris, C., Hetland, R., et al. (2019). Development of a coupled modeling system for simulating oil-microbial-sediment interactions in the ocean. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Stropshire, T., Morey, S., Chassignet, E., Coles, V., Karnauskas, M., Landry, M., et al. (2019). Estimates of food limitation experienced by coastal-pelagic fish larvae in the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.

2015

Dukhovskoy, D., Garcia, O., MacDonald, I., Morey, S., & Ubnoske, J. (2015). Topological Approach for Objective Evaluation of Surface Oil Drift Simulation. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
Morey, S. L., & Dukhovskoy, D. S. (2015). Near-Bottom Response to Tropical Cyclones in Regions with Steep Bathymetry. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Morey, S. L., Dukhovskoy, D. S., Hiester, H., Garcia-Pineda, O., & MacDonald, I. (2015). Application of a topological metric for assessing numerical ocean models with satellite observations, 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco. In 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA : 12/12/15-12/16/15.

2013

Dukhovskoy, D. S., Morey, S. L., & Chassignet, E. (2013). Deep Ocean Dynamics and Surface Mesoscale Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico from Numerical Model Studies. In FLUXES AND STRUCTURES IN FLUIDS, Russian Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg, Russia, June 22-25, 2013.
Hiester, H. R., Velassariou, P., Morey, S. L., & Chassignet, E. P. (2013). Development of a regional coupled model of the Northeast Gulf of Mexico. In Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Circulation. Biddeford, ME, June 9-14, 2013: Poster.
Morey, S. L., Dukhovskoy, D., & Chassignet, E. (2013). Deep Currents near Steep Bathymetry from a Numerical Simulation of DeSoto Canyon. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.

2012

Dukhovskoy, D., & Morey, S. L. (2012). Dynamics of Intense Near Bottom Currents Along the Sigsbee Escarpment, Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12: Poster.
Dukhovskoy, D., & Morey, S. L. (2012). Simulations of Deep Currents Along the Sigsbee Escarpment Using a Multi Model Nesting Approach. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12: Poster.
MacDonald, I. R., Garcia-Pineda, O., & Morey, S. (2012). Comparison of natural and unnatural oil sources in the surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico detected by satellite remote sensing. In American Chemical Society Meeting. San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Todd, A. C., Chassignet, E. P., & Morey, S. L. (2012). Circulation Dynamics and Larval Transport Mechanisms in the Florida Big Bend Region. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12: Poster.
Vogel, M. J., Morey, S. L., & Dukhovskoy, D. (2012). An Investigation of Fine Scale Spatial Variability of Near Bottom Currents Along the Sigsbee Escarpment. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12: Poster.

2011

MacDonald, I. R., Garcia-Pineda, O., & Morey, S. (2011). Natural and Unnatural oil in the Gulf of Mexico. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2011.
MacDonald, I. R., Garcia-Pineda, O., & Morey, S. (2011). Natural and Unnatural oil layers on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico detected and quantified in synthetic aperture RADAR images with texture classifying neural network algorithms. (OS34A). In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2011.
Morey, S., Dukhovskoy, D., Chassignet, E., MacDonald, I., & Garcia, O. (2011). Objective evaluation of oil spill models using SAR imagery. In AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 13-18, 2011.
Morey, S., Dukhovskoy, E., Chassignet, E., MacDonald, I., & Garcia, O. (2011). Oil Spill Model Validation and Parameter Estimation using Remotely Sensed Data. In Gordon Research Conference: Coastal Oceanography. June 2011.