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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Beizhan Yan

Columbia University

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

PO Box 1000
61 Route 9W
Palisades , NY  10964  

yanbz@ldeo.columbia.edu

Project List:

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf-2 (ECOGIG-2)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG)

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

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 4

2018

Giering, S. L. C., Yan, B., Sweet, J., Asper, V., Diercks, A., Chanton, J. P., et al. (2018). The ecosystem baseline for particle flux in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6(1), 6.

2016

D'souza, N. A., Subramaniam, A., Juhl, A. R., Hafez, M., Chekalyuk, A., Phan, S., et al. (2016). Elevated surface chlorophyll associated with natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Nature Geosci, 9(3), 215–218.
Yan, B., Passow, U., Chanton, J. P., Nothig, E., Asper, V., Sweet, J., et al. (2016). Sustained deposition of contaminants from the Deepwater Horizon spill. PNAS, 113(24), E3332–E3340.

2014

Ziervogel, K., D'Souza, N., Sweet, J., Yan, B., & Passow, U. (2014). Natural oil slicks fuel surface water microbial activities in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Front. Microbiol., 5, 1–10.

Conference Presentations - 12

2017

Chanton, J., Passow, U., Asper, V., Bosman, S., Sweet, J., Rogers, K., et al. (2017). System Recovery and Organic Source Variability: Sinking Particulate Organic Carbon Stable and Radioisotope Time Series at 3 Sites in the Northern Gulf 2010-2014. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Giering, S. L. C., Sweet, J., Asper, V. A., Diercks, A., Chanton, J. P., Yan, B., et al. (2017). Variability in Sedimentation Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Reflect Ecosystem and Foodweb Structure. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Markey, K. C., Pitiranggon, M., Juhl, A., Yan, B., & Subramaniam, A. (2017). Where the oil from surface and subsurface plumes deposited during/after Deepwater Horizon oil spill? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.

2015

D'souza, N., Juhl, A., Subramaniam, A., Hafez, M., Chekalyuk, A., Phan, S., et al. (2015). Why Is Chlorophyll Elevated Near Natural Seeps In The Gulf Of Mexico? Evidence For Bottom-Up, And Top-Down Controls On Planktonic Microbes. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

D'souza, N., Juhl, A., Ziervogel, K., Bullock, K., Yan, B., & Subramaniam, A. (2014). Synergy of Oil, Nutrients, and Predation in Influencing Planktonic Processes in the Gulf of Mexico. In ASLO/AGU/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu HI. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14: Poster.
D'souza, N., Subramaniam, A., Juhl, A., Hafez, M., Chekalyuk, A., Yan, B., et al. (2014). Multiple lines of evidence for elevated phytoplankton pigments near natural oil seeps in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Palomo, C., & Yan, B. (2014). GOM Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Combustion-Derived Hydrocarbons. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Passow, U., Yan, B., Chanton, J., Nathig, E., Sweet, J., Pak, D., et al. (2014). Large Sedimentation Events after the Deep Water Horizon Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14.
Yan, B., Passow, U., Pitiranggon, M., D'Souza, N., Juhl, A., & Subramaniam, A. (2014). Apples and Oranges? Characterizing spilled and seeped oil in the GOM. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14.
Yan, B., Pitiranggon, M., D'Souza, N., Juhl, A., & Subramaniam, A. (2014). Fingerprinting Hydrocarbons In Gom Using Sensitive Hydrocarbon Source Indicators. In ASLO/AGU/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu HI. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14: Poster.

2013

Palomo, C. M., Pitiranggon, M., Yan, B., Dsouza, N., Juhl, A., & Subramaniam, A. (2013). During and Post GOM Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Time Series Analysis of Variations in Spilled Hydrocarbons. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013.
Palomo, C. M., & Yan, B. (2013). GOM Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Time Series Analysis of Variations in Spilled Hydrocarbons. In AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013.