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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 - Louisiana State University

Project Publications & Presentations

Microbial Community Responses to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Pre-Spill Background Assessment

Journal Articles - 5
2015
King, G. M., Kostka, J. E., Hazen, T., & Sobecky, P. (2015). Microbial Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: From Coastal Wetlands to the Deep Sea. Annu. Rev. Marine. Sci., 7(1), 377–401.
2013
Tolar, B. B., King, G. M., & Hollibaugh, J. T. (2013). An Analysis of Thaumarchaeota Populations from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Front. Microbiol., 4(72), 1–36.
2012
King, G. M., Judd, C., Kuske, C. R., Smith, C., & Neufeld, J. (2012). Analysis of Stomach and Gut Microbiomes of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) from Coastal Louisiana, USA. PLoS ONE, 7(12), e51475.
2011
Bianchi, T. S., Cook, R. L., Perdue, E. M., Kolic, P. E., Green, N., Zhang, Y., et al. (2011). Impacts of diverted freshwater on dissolved organic matter and microbial communities in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, U.S.A. Marine Environmental Research, 72(5), 248–257.
Smith, C. B., Johnson, C. N., & King, G. M. (2011). Assessment of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Degradation by Potentially Pathogenic Environmental Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates from Coastal Louisiana, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 64(1), 138–143.
Conference Presentations - 3
2011
King, G. M., Smith, C., Tolar, B., & Hollibaugh, J. T. (2011). Bacterioplankton diversity and community structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA : May 21-24, 2011.
Smith, C., Johnson, C., & King, G. M. (2011). Capacity for polyaromatic hydrocarbon oxidation by pathogenic Vibro parahaemolyticus. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA, May 21-24, 2011.
Tolar, B., King, G. M., & Hollibaugh, J. T. (2011). Analysis of the abundance, distribution and activity of archaeal ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In American Society for Microbiology Meeting. New Orleans, LA : May 21-24, 2011.

This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org