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Andreas P. Teske

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Marine Sciences

3202 Venable Hall, CB 3300
Chapel Hill , NC  27599  

teske@email.unc.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 Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 16

2019

Bowles, M. W., Samarkin, V. A., Hunter, K. S., Finke, N., Teske, A. P., Girguis, P. R., et al. (2019). Remarkable Capacity for Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane at High Methane Concentration. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(21), 12192–12201.
Zhuang, G. - C., Montgomery, A., Samarkin, V. A., Song, M., Liu, J., Schubotz, F., et al. (2019). Generation and utilization of volatile fatty acids and alcohols in hydrothermally altered sediments in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(5), 2637–2646.

2018

Klotz, F., Brinkhoff, T., Freeze, H. M., Wietz, M., Teske, A., Simon, M., et al. (2018). Tritonibacter horizontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Rhodobacteraceae, isolated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 63(3), 736–744.

2016

Arnosti, C., Ziervogel, K., Yang, T., & Teske, A. (2016). Oil-derived marine aggregates – hot spots of polysaccharide degradation by specialized bacterial communities. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 179–186.
Beaudoin, D. J., Carmichael, C. A., Nelson, R. K., Reddy, C. M., Teske, A. P., & Edgcomb, V. P. (2016). Impact of protists on a hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial community from deep-sea Gulf of Mexico sediments: A microcosm study. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 350–359.
Dombrowski, N., Donaho, J. A., Gutierrez, T., Seitz, K. W., Teske, A. P., & Baker, B. J. (2016). Reconstructing metabolic pathways of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Nat. Microbiol, 1(7), 16057.
Giebel, H. - A., Klotz, F., Voget, S., Poehlein, A., Grosser, K., Teske, A., et al. (2016). Draft genome sequence of the marine Rhodobacteraceae strain O3.65, cultivated from oil-polluted seawater of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Stand in Genomic Sci, 11(1).
McKay, L. J., Gutierrez, T., & Teske, A. P. (2016). Development of a group-specific 16S rRNA-targeted probe set for the identification of Marinobacter by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 360–367.
Underwood, S., Lapham, L., Teske, A., & Lloyd, K. G. (2016). Microbial community structure and methane-cycling activity of subsurface sediments at Mississippi Canyon 118 before the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 148–156.
Yang, T., Nigro, L., Gutierrez, T., Joye, S. B., Highsmith, R., & Teske, A. P. (2016). Pulsed blooms with persistent oil-degrading bacteria in the marine water column during and after the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 129, 282–291.
Yang, T., Speare, K., McKay, L., MacGregor, B. J., Joye, S. B., & Teske, A. (2016). Distinct Bacterial Communities in Surficial Seafloor Sediments Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout. Front. Microbiol., 7.

2014

Joye, S. B., Teske, A. P., & Kostka, J. E. (2014). Microbial dynamics following the Macondo oil well blowout across Gulf of Mexico environments. BioScience, 64(9), 766–777.
Kostka, J. E., Teske, A. P., Joye, S. B., & Head, I. M. (2014). The metabolic pathways and environmental controls of hydrocarbon biodegradation in marine ecosystems. Frontiers in Microbiology, 5(471), 1–3.

2013

Gutierrez, T., Berry, D., Yang, T., Mishamandani, S., McKay, L., Teske, A., et al. (2013). Role of Bacterial Exopolysaccharides (EPS) in the Fate of the Oil Released during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e67717.
Gutierrez, T., Singleton, D. R., Berry, D., Yang, T., Aitken, M. D., & Teske, A. (2013). Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria enriched by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill identified by cultivation and DNA-SIP. Isme J, 7(11), 2091–2104.

2012

Ziervogel, K., McKay, L. J., Rhodes, B., Osburn, C. L., Dickson-Brown, J., Arnosti, C., et al. (2012). Microbial Activities and Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in Oil-Contaminated Surface Seawater from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Site. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e34816.

Conference Presentations - 13

2017

Hyde, A., Joye, S. B., & Teske, A. (2017). Microbial stratification and microbially catalyzed processes along a hypersaline chemocline. In 2017 AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA : 12/11/17-12/15/17: Poster.

2015

Joye, S., Passow, U., Medeiros, P., Sibert, R., Yang, T., Asper, V., et al. (2015). Rapid sedimentation, resuspension and redistribution of hydrocarbons in the wake of the Macondo Blowout. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Malkin, S., Salman, V., Saxton, M., Harrison, S., Teske, A., & Joye, S. B. (2015). Cable Bacteria: Invisible sulfide oxidizing mats at cold seeps? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Scott, N. M., Yang, T., Robbina-Pianka, A., Ladau, J., Hampton-Marcell, J., Owens, S. M., et al. (2015). Shifts of microbial assemblages as indicators of metabolic potential in the sediments and the water column of the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Teske, A. (2015). Introduction for Session 003. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

Joye, S. B., & Teske, A. (2014). Microbiology of Gulf of Mexico sediments and waters before and after the Macondo Blowout. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14.
Scott, N. M., Larsen, P. E., Yang, T., Teske, A. P., & Gilbert, J. A. (2014). Preliminary predictive models of microbial community interactions during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) using Microbial Assemblage Prediction (MAP). In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.
Yang, T. T., Speare, K., Joye, S. B., & Teske, A. (2014). Bacterial community dynamics in oil polluted seafloor sediment. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2014. Mobile, AL: 01/26/14-01/30/14: Poster.

2013

Gilbert, J., Gibbons, S., Larsen, P., Woyke, T., Malmstroem, R., Gutierrez, T., et al. (2013). Creating a predictive model of microbially mediated carbon remediation in the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
McKay, L., Speare, K., Mendlovitz, H., Hale, A., Yang, T., Nigro, L., et al. (2013). Time Series Studies of the Impacts of Oil and Gas Releases in Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Yang, T., Nigro, L., Gutierrez, T., & Teske, A. (2013). Bacterial 16S rRNA Pyrosequencing analysis of the Gulf of Mexico water column and initial sediment survey results. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.

2012

Biddle, J. F., Lloyd, K. G., Lapham, L., Twing, K., Martin, C., Underwood, S., et al. (2012). Archaeal diversity patterns in relation to hydrocarbon seepage in the Gulf of Mexico. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.
Joye, S. M., Teske, A., & McKay, L. (2012). Microbial biogeochemical dynamics in contrasting cold seep ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. In AGU Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 3-7, 2012.