[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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The science behind marine-oil snow and MOSSFA: past, present, and future

AB Burd, JP Chanton, KL Daly, S Gilbert… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Marine snow sedimented oil released during the Deepwater Horizon spill

U Passow, K Ziervogel - Oceanography, 2016 - JSTOR
During and after the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico, a
massive amount of oil compounds and marine particles, termed floc, accumulated on the …

As Gulf oil extraction goes deeper, who is at risk? Community structure, distribution, and connectivity of the deep-pelagic fauna

TT Sutton, T Frank, H Judkins, IC Romero - Scenarios and Responses to …, 2020 - Springer
The habitat and biota most affected by ultra-deep oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) will
necessarily be in the deep-pelagic domain. This domain represents~ 91% of the GoM's …

Associations between chronic exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and health indices in Gulf of Mexico tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) post …

SM Snyder, EL Pulster… - … toxicology and chemistry, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A time series of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) data was collected for Gulf of Mexico
demersal fishes in the years following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2012–2017). Tilefish …

Scales of seafloor sediment resuspension in the northern Gulf of Mexico

AR Diercks, C Dike, VL Asper, SF DiMarco… - Elem Sci …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
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 …