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Project Overview

Synthesis Core Area 7 – Integrated/Linked Modeling System

Synthesis Leads
Igal Berenshtein
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Villy Kourafalou
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Christopher Barker
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Office of Response and Restoration

Helena Solo-Gabriele
University of Miami
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Cameron Ainsworth
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science

Synthesis Motivators
John Shepherd
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Research Board Member

David Halpern
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Research Board Member

Cecilie Mauritzen
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Research Board Member

Summary:

GoMRI’s Synthesis Core Area 7, Integrated/Linked Modeling System, focused on operational oil spill modeling, including ocean, wave, and weather forecasting, and development of a systems dynamic model, which could be used for future decision-making. Core Area 7 is broken down into two categories:  

  • (7a)- Operational (Linked) Modeling -Short term, given oil today, where will it be tomorrow, in a few days? A forecasting problem needs good initial values and forecasts of ocean currents, weather and waves, as well as a model of how oil responds to all this..
  • (7b)- Integrated Modeling - Longer scale: weeks, months, years. Given an oil spill, how will ecosystems and humans (e.g. human health) respond?  Projection problem, need to assess various scenarios and ask, “what if?”


(7a) Leads: Villy Kourafalou and Chris Barker
(7a) GoMRI Research Board Motivators: John Shepherd and David Halpern

(7b) Leads: Helena Solo-Gabriele and Cam Ainsworth
(7b) GoMRI Research Board Motivators: Cecilie Mauritzen, John Shepherd, and David Halpern

 

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Journal Articles - 14

2021

Ainsworth, C., Chassignet, E., French-McCay, D., Beegle-Krause, C., Berenshtein, I., Englehardt, J., Fiddaman, T., Huang, H., Huettel, M., Justic, D., Kourafalou, V., Liu, Y., Mauritzen, C., Murawski, S., Morey, S., Özgökmen, T., Paris, C., Ruzicka, J., Saul, S., . . . Zheng, Y. (2021). Ten years of modeling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Environmental Modelling & Software, 142, 105070.
Technology, N. J. I. o., Boufadel, M., Bracco, A., Chassignet, E., Chen, S., D’Asaro, E., Dewar, W., Garcia-Pineda, O., Justić, D., Katz, J., Kourafalou, V., MacDonald, I., Özgökmen, T., Paris-Limouzy, C., Socolofsky, S., Halpern, D., & Shepherd, J. (2021). Physical Transport Processes that Affect the Distribution of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico: Observations and Modeling. Oceanography, 34(1), 58-75.
Cui, L., Harris, C. K., & Tarpley, D. R. N. (2021). Formation of Oil-Particle-Aggregates: Numerical Model Formulation and Calibration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
Diercks, A. R., Romero, I. C., Larson, R. A., Schwing, P., Harris, A., Bosman, S., Chanton, J. P., & Brooks, G. (2021). Resuspension, Redistribution, and Deposition of Oil-Residues to Offshore Depocenters After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
Dukhovskoy, D. S., Morey, S. L., Chassignet, E. P., Chen, X., Coles, V. J., Cui, L., Harris, C. K., Hetland, R., Hsu, T., Manning, A. J., Stukel, M., Thyng, K., & Wang, J. (2021). Development of the CSOMIO Coupled Ocean-Oil-Sediment- Biology Model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
Quigg, A., Santschi, P. H., Xu, C., Ziervogel, K., Kamalanathan, M., Chin, W., Burd, A. B., Wozniak, A., & Hatcher, P. G. (2021). Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers (ADDOMEx): Toward a Synthesis of Processes and Pathways of Marine Oil Snow Formation in Determining the Fate of Hydrocarbons. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
Romero, I. C., Chanton, J. P., Brooks, G. R., Bosman, S., Larson, R. A., Harris, A., Schwing, P., & Diercks, A. (2021). Molecular Markers of Biogenic and Oil-Derived Hydrocarbons in Deep-Sea Sediments Following the Deepwater Horizon Spill. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
Solo-Gabriele, H. M., Fiddaman, T., Mauritzen, C., Ainsworth, C., Abramson, D. M., Berenshtein, I., Chassignet, E. P., Chen, S. S., Conmy, R. N., Court, C. D., Dewar, W. K., Farrington, J. W., Feldman, M. G., Ferguson, A. C., Fetherston-Resch, E., French-McCay, D., Hale, C., He, R., Kourafalou, V. H., . . . Yoskowitz, D. (2021). Towards integrated modeling of the long-term impacts of oil spills. Marine Policy, 131, 104554.
Vaz, A. C., Faillettaz, R., & Paris, C. B. (2021). A Coupled Lagrangian-Earth System Model for Predicting Oil Photooxidation. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.
Administration, N. O. a. A., Westerholm, D., Ainsworth, C., Barker, C., Brewer, P., Farrington, J., Justić, D., Kourafalou, V., Murawski, S., Shepherd, J., & Solo-Gabriele, H. (2021). Preparedness, Planning, and Advances in Operational Response. Oceanography, 34(1), 212-227.
Wilson, M. B., D.; Maung-Douglass, E. P., M.; Sempier, S. S., & T (2021). From the ocean to humans: Integrated modelling of oil spill impacts. Oil Spill Science: Sea Grant Programs of the Gulf of Mexico.
Wilson, M. B., C.; Bailey, D. M., E.; Partyka, M. S., & S.; Skelton, T. (2021). Oil spill modelling: Preparedness and response. Oil Spill Science: Sea Grant Programs of the Gulf of Mexico.
Ye, L., Manning, A. J., Holyoke, J., Penaloza-Giraldo, J. A., & Hsu, T. (2021). The Role of Biophysical Stickiness on Oil-Mineral Flocculation and Settling in Seawater. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.

2020

Barker, C. H., Kourafalou, V. H., Beegle-Krause, C., Boufadel, M., Bourassa, M. A., Buschang, S. G., Androulidakis, Y., Chassignet, E. P., Dagestad, K., Danmeier, D. G., Dissanayake, A. L., Galt, J. A., Jacobs, G., Marcotte, G., Özgökmen, T., Pinardi, N., Schiller, R. V., Socolofsky, S. A., Thrift-Viveros, D., . . . Zheng, Y. (2020). Progress in Operational Modeling in Support of Oil Spill Response. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(9), 668.


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