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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 Alabama Marine Environmental Science Consortium

Project Publications & Presentations

Recovery: Benthic Meiofauna Survey

Journal Articles - 3

2014

Landers, S. C., Nichols, A. C., Barron, N. K., Schimmer, C. A., Tao, R., Yu, K., et al. (2014). Nematode and copepod diversity (2012) from Louisiana near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 127(1), 47–57.
Landers, S. C., Nichols, A. C., Schimmer, C. A., Stewart, P. M., Ramroop, S., Steffy, D. A., et al. (2014). Meiofauna and trace metals from sediment collections in Florida following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Gulf of Mexico Science, 32(1/2), 1–10.
Martinec, C. C., Miller, J. M., Barron, N. K., Tao, R., Yu, K., Stewart, P. M., et al. (2014). Sediment Chemistry and Meiofauna from the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf. International Journal of Oceanography, 2014(Article 625718), 1–10.

Conference Presentations - 3

2012

Leon y Leon, I. A., & Lewis, R. D. (2012). Test Abnormalities in benthic foraminifera from the Orange Beach area, Alabama: Assessing the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Asheville, NC, April 1-2, 2012.

2011

Lewis, R. D. (2011). Using mid-outer shelf benthic foraminifera to assess benthic community damage and recovery following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf of Mexico. In Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Wilmington, NC, March 23â??25, 2011.
Lewis, R. D. (2011). Offshore benthic foraminifera as indicators of hydrocarbon/dispersant contamination and benthic community recovery following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf of Mexico. In Alabama Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting. Jacksonville, Jacksonville, AL, March 2-4, 2011.
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org