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 …

Abstract The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico demonstrated that oil in
the water column may be transported from surface waters to the sediments via marine snow …

Seafloor sediment resuspension events of different scales and magnitudes and the resulting
deep (> 1,000 m) benthic nepheloid layers were investigated in the northern Gulf of Mexico …

During the active 87-day Deepwater Horizon spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico, a significant
fraction of the spilled Macondo oil was transported to the seafloor via the sedimentation of …

Natural or spilled oil in the ocean can interact with marine snow and sediment from riverine
sources and form Marine Oil Snow (MOS) aggregates including aggregates consisting of …

Mesoscale eddies and fronts in the ocean greatly impact lateral transport and in turn the
trajectories of sinking particles. Such influence was explored for April and October 2012 in …

Research funded under the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative provided new insights into the
biogeochemical processes influencing the fate of petroleum chemicals entering the Gulf of …

Abstract Marine Oil Snow Sedimentation and Flocculent Accumulation (MOSSFA) refers to
the process of formation, sinking, and seafloor deposition of oil-contaminated marine snow …

Abstract Prior to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we lacked a comprehensive baseline of oil
contamination in the Gulf of Mexico's sediments, water column, and biota. Gaps in prespill …

Shelf and deep-water soft-bottom macrofauna were explored in the western Gulf of Mexico
in terms of species and functional trait assemblages. Their variation was analysed as …