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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 - Florida Institute of Oceanography

Project Publications & Presentations

Acute Effects of Oil on Northern Gulf of Mexico Reefs and Reef Communities

Journal Articles - 2
2015
Tarnecki, J. H., & Patterson III, W. F. (2015). Changes in Red Snapper Diet and Trophic Ecology Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 7(1), 135–147.
2014
Dahl, K. A., Patterson, W. F., & Layman, C. A. (2014). Habitat-Specific Density and Diet of Rapidly Expanding Invasive Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, Populations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e105852.
Conference Presentations - 9
2012
Allen, L., Johnson, D., Farris, K., Patterson, W., Tarnecki, J., & Jagoe, C. (2012). Identification of the relationship between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fish livers from the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In NOAA Educational Partnership Program Research Forum. Tallahassee, FL, March 26-28, 2012.
Allen, L., Johnson, D., Jagoe, C., Patterson, W. F., III, & Tarnecki, J. H. (2012). PAH metabolites in bile and enzymatic biomarkers in livers of reef fish from the northern Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Meeting. November 11-15, 2012.
Farris, K., Johnson, D., Allen, L., Patterson, W., Tarnecki, J., & Jagoe, C. (2012). Relationship between polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in fish bile and mercury content in liver from the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In NOAA Educational Partnership Program Research Forum. Tallahassee, FL, March 26-28, 2012.
Johnson, D., Allen, L., Farris, K., Patterson, W., Tarnecki, J., & Jagoe, C. (2012). Detection of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in fish bile using fluorescence from the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In NOAA Educational Partnership Program Research Forum. Tallahassee, FL, March 26-28, 2012.
Johnson, D., Allen, L., Farris, K., Patterson, W., Tarnecki, J., & Jagoe, C. (2012). Detection of fish bile metabolites by fluorescence from the northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.
Norberg, M. J., Patterson, W. F., III, & Tarnecki, J. H. (2012). Tomtate, Haemulon aurolineatum, population demographics and diet in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf Estuarine Research Society Meeting. Dauphin Island, AL, November 8-9, 2012.
Patterson, W. F., III, Tarnecki, J., Jagoe, C., Romero, I., Hollander, D., Kane, A., et al. (2012). Acute and chronic effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on northern Gulf of Mexico Reef Fishes. In Gulf Estuarine Research Society Meeting. Dauphin Island, AL, November 8-9, 2012.
Romero, I. C., Hollander, D. J., Patterson, W. F., III, & et al. (2012). Organic Geochemical Evidence for Oil Spill Impacts on Fish in the Gulf of Mexico: Comparative and Quantitative Analyses of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. In Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry. Holderness, NH, July 29 - August 3, 2012.
Tarnecki, J. H., & Patterson, W. F., III. (2012). Diet and trophic ecology of Red Snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, at natural and artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf Estuarine Research Society Meeting. Dauphin Island, AL, November 8-9, 2012.

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