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Research Publications

Below is a preliminary list of some of the research publications that have been produced by FSU faculty related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. FSU authors are in bold.

• Cheng, Y.C., Li, X.F., Xu, Q., Garcia-Pineda, O., Anderson, O.B., Michel, W.G., 2011. SAR observation and model tracking of an oil spill event in coastal waters. Marine Pollution Bulletin 62(2):350-363. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.10.005.


• Coleman, F.C., Koenig, C.C., 2010. The effects of fishing, climate change, and other anthropogenic disturbances on red grouper and other reef fishes in the Gulf of Mexico. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50(2):201-212. doi:10.1093/icb/icq072.


• Craig, R.K., 2010. The Gulf Oil Spill and national marine sanctuaries. Environmental Law Reporter 40:11,074-11,078.


• Garcia-Pineda, O., MacDonald, I., Zimmer, B., Shedd, B., Roberts, H., 2010. Remote-sensing evaluation of geophysical anomaly sites in the outer continental slope, northern Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research II 57(21-23):1859-1869. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.05.005.


• Hu, L., Yvon-Lewis, S.A., Kessler, J.D., MacDonald, I.R., 2012. Methane fluxes to the atmosphere from deepwater hydrocarbon seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research 117:C01009. doi:10.1029/2011JC007208.


• Joye, S.B., MacDonald, I.R., 2010. Offshore oceanic impacts from the BP oil spill. Nature Geoscience 3(446). doi:10.1038/ngeo902.


• Joye, S.B., MacDonald, I.R., Leifer, I., Asper, V., 2011. Magnitude and oxidation potential of hydrocarbon gases released from the BP Oil well blowout. Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/ngeo1067.


• Kostka, J.E., Prakash, O., Overholt, W.A., Green, S.J., Freyer, G., Canion, A., Delgardio, J., Norton, N., Hazen, T.C., Huettel, M., 2011. Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria and the bacterial community response in Gulf of Mexico beach sands impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77(2):7962-7974. doi:10.1128/AEM.05402-11.


• Lapham, L.L., Chanton, J.P., Chapman, R., Martens, C.S., 2010. Methane under-saturated fluids in deep-sea sediments: Implications for gas hydrate stability and rates of dissolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 298(3-4):275-285. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.07.016.


• MacDonald, I.R., 2010. Deepwater disaster: how the oil spill estimates got it wrong. Significance 7(4):149-154. doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00449.x.


• Natter, M., Keevan, J., Wang, Y., Keimowitz, A.R., Okeke, B.C., Son, A. Lee, M.K., 2012. Level and degradation of Deepwater Horizon spilled oil in coastal marsh sediments and pore-water. Environmental Science & Technology 46(11):5744-5755. doi:10.1021/es300058w.


• Rogers, R.P., McKenna, A.M., Nelson, R.K., Robbins, W.K., Hsu, C.S., Reddy, C.M., Marshall, A.G., 2011. Molecular level characterization and compositional archive for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill by FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 241.