[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impacts of oil-associated marine snow formation and sedimentation during and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

KL Daly, U Passow, J Chanton, D Hollander - Anthropocene, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest in US history, unprecedented for
the depth and volume of oil released, the amount of dispersants applied, and the …

Microbial transformation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—past, present, and future perspectives

NE Kimes, AV Callaghan, JM Suflita… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The Deepwater Horizon blowout, which occurred on April 20, 2010, resulted in an
unprecedented oil spill. Despite a complex effort to cap the well, oil and gas spewed from …

Reconstructing metabolic pathways of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

N Dombrowski, JA Donaho, T Gutierrez, KW Seitz… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, one of the largest
marine oil spills 1, changed bacterial communities in the water column and sediment as they …

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 …

Microbial dynamics following the Macondo oil well blowout across Gulf of Mexico environments

SB Joye, AP Teske, JE Kostka - Bioscience, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The Macondo blowout released roughly 5 million barrels of oil and up to 500,000 tons of
natural gas into Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 1500 meters. Inarguably, the gas released from …

The Complexity of Spills: The Fate of the Deepwater Horizon Oil

U Passow, EB Overton - Annual review of marine science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest, longest-lasting, and deepest oil accident to
date in US waters. As oil and natural gas jetted from release points at 1,500-m depth in the …

Rapid formation of microbe-oil aggregates and changes in community composition in coastal surface water following exposure to oil and the dispersant Corexit

SM Doyle, EA Whitaker, V De Pascuale… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
During the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, massive quantities of oil were deposited on
the seafloor via a large-scale marine oil-snow sedimentation and flocculent accumulation …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in deep sea sediments: Microbe–pollutant interactions in a remote environment

A Louvado, NCM Gomes, MMQ Simões… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recalcitrant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) released into seawater end up in the
deep sea sediments (DSSs). However, their fate here is often oversimplified by theoretical …

The role of microbial exopolymers in determining the fate of oil and chemical dispersants in the ocean

A Quigg, U Passow, WC Chin, C Xu… - Limnology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) by planktonic microbes can
influence the fate of oil and chemical dispersants in the ocean through emulsification …

The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, six years after the Macondo oil well blowout

SB Joye, A Bracco, TM Özgökmen, JP Chanton… - Deep Sea Research …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem is a hotspot for biological diversity and supports a
number of industries, from tourism to fishery production to oil and gas exploration, that serve …