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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 the <i>Deepwater Horizon</i> oil 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 and PARAFAC 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. Environmental Research Letters, 7(2), 025301.

Conference Presentations - 2

2013

Wambaugh, Z. A., R.; Zucheng, W. H., C.; Liu, Z. B., & E (2013). Bioaccumulation of petroleum hydrocarbons by the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013

2012

Zhou, Z. G., & 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
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org