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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.
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Funding Source: Year One Block Grant - The Northern Gulf Institute

Project Publications & Presentations

Evaluating Changes in Fluorescence EEM and Size Spectra During the Degradation of Crude Oil and Dispersant in Seawater

Journal Articles - 4

2013

Liu, Z., & Liu, J. (2013). Evaluating bacterial community structures in oil collected from the sea surface and sediment in the northern Gulf of Mexico after theDeepwater Horizonoil spill. MicrobiologyOpen, 2(3), 492–504.
Zhou, Z., Guo, L., Shiller, A. M., Lohrenz, S. E., Asper, V. L., & Osburn, C. L. (2013). Characterization of oil components from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico using fluorescence EEM techniques. Marine Chemistry, 148, 10–21.
Zhou, Z., Liu, Z., & Guo, L. (2013). Chemical evolution of Macondo crude oil during laboratory degradation as characterized by fluorescence EEMs and hydrocarbon composition. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 66(1-2), 164–175.

2012

Zhou, Z., & Guo, L. (2012). Evolution of the optical properties of seawater influenced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Environ. Res. Lett., 7(2), 025301.

Conference Presentations - 2

2013

Wambaugh, Z., Almeda, R., Zucheng, W., Hyatt, C., Liu, Z., & Buskey, E. (2013). Bioaccumulation of petroleum hydrocarbons by the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013: Poster.

2012

Zhou, Z., Guo, L., & He, H. (2012). UV and fluorescence characteristics of DOM from the Gulf of Mexico five months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org