Environmental effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: a review

J Beyer, HC Trannum, T Bakke, PV Hodson… - Marine pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon oil spill constituted an ecosystem-level injury in the
northern Gulf of Mexico. Much oil spread at 1100–1300 m depth, contaminating and …

Protist metabarcoding and environmental biomonitoring: time for change

J Pawlowski, F Lejzerowicz… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA and/or RNA proved to be a
powerful tool to describe protist diversity. This new approach called also the metabarcoding …

[KNJIGA][B] The use of dispersants in marine oil spill response

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2020 - books.google.com
Whether the result of an oil well blowout, vessel collision or grounding, leaking pipeline, or
other incident at sea, each marine oil spill will present unique circumstances and …

Large-scale deposition of weathered oil in the Gulf of Mexico following a deep-water oil spill

IC Romero, G Toro-Farmer, AR Diercks, P Schwing… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) drilling rig in 2010 released an
unprecedented amount of oil at depth (1,500 m) into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Sedimentary …

Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill evaluated using an end-to-end ecosystem model

CH Ainsworth, CB Paris, N Perlin, LN Dornberger… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
We use a spatially explicit biogeochemical end-to-end ecosystem model, Atlantis, to
simulate impacts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and subsequent recovery of fish …

Sedimentation pulse in the NE Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 DWH blowout

GR Brooks, RA Larson, PT Schwing, I Romero… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH)
oil discharge at the seafloor as recorded in bottom sediments of the DeSoto Canyon region …

Hydrocarbons in deep-sea sediments following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout in the northeast Gulf of Mexico

IC Romero, PT Schwing, GR Brooks, RA Larson… - PLOS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill released 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
(GoM) over 87 days. Sediment and water sampling efforts were concentrated SW of the …

The first decade of scientific insights from the Deepwater Horizon oil release

EB Kujawinski, CM Reddy, RP Rodgers… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster remains the largest single accidental release
of oil and gas into the ocean. During the 87-day release, scientists used oceanographic …

Decadal assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mesopelagic fishes from the Gulf of Mexico reveals exposure to oil-derived sources

IC Romero, T Sutton, B Carr… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
This study characterizes a decadal assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
in the muscle tissues of mesopelagic fish species as indicators of the environmental health …

A critical review of marine snow in the context of oil spills and oil spill dispersant treatment with focus on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

OG Brakstad, A Lewis, CJ Beegle-Krause - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural marine snow (NMS) is defined as the “shower” of particle aggregates formed by
processes that occur in the world's oceans, consisting of macroscopic aggregates of detritus …