The Official Magazine of The Oceanography Society
Volume 29 | Number 3 | September 2016
Special Issue on GoMRI: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science
On the Cover: [CENTER] Deepwater Horizon oil rig prior to the April 2010 accident. Source: National Commission of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling [CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT] (1) Photo showing oil (brown blobs) inside a copepod nauplius of Parvocalanus crassirostris. Photo credit: Rodrigo Almeda (2) Jonathan Delgardio and Will Overholt (Georgia Institute of Technology) collect samples from a Pensacola Beach sand trench with oil layers. Photo credit: Markus Huettel (3) A chromatogram of oil that leaked from the Macondo well during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Each peak represents one of thousands of individual chemical compounds in the oil. Image courtesy of Bob Nelson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (4) Splash resulting from impact of a raindrop on a 400 µm oil slick. Image credit: David W. Murphy, Johns Hopkins University (5) Fishers offload yellowedge grouper from a fishing vessel near Tampa, Florida. Photo credit: Steve Saul (6) Ocean color satellite imagery and high-resolution circulation models were used to delineate possible phytoplankton blooms. Fieldwork is needed to confirm these phenomena. Image credit: Ocean Weather Laboratory (7) Researchers found sea pansies and lined sea stars when trawling offshore of the Chandeleur Islands. This spring 2015 survey is helping to document mid- and higher-level consumer diversity and abundance across the northern Gulf of Mexico. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (8) Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment drifter trajectories in the Gulf of Mexico superimposed on Aviso surface currents. Image credit: Edward Ryan and Tamay Özgökmen, University of Miami (9) Coastal Waters Consortium (CWC) researchers mark study sites in a marsh. Photo credit: CWC Consortium
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SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES
Foreword to the GoMRI Special Issue
By
Rita R. Colwell
Introduction to the Special Issue: An Overview of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
Shepherd, J., D.S. Benoit, K.M. Halanych, M. Carron, R. Shaw, and C. Wilson. 2016. Introduction to the special issue: An overview of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Oceanography 29(3):26–32, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.58.
Enabling Data Sharing Through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC)
By
James Gibeaut
An Opportunity to Inform and Educate Through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative: Outreach Efforts Surrounding the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
By
Debra S. Benoit,
Leigh A. Zimmermann,
Katie H. Fillingham,
Stephen H. Sempier ,
Nilde M. Dannreuther,
Jarryl B. Ritchie, and
Kenneth M. Halanych
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative: Engagement with Public Health, Risk Perception, and Risk Mitigation
By
Burton Singer and
Stephen H. Sempier
Chemical Composition of Macondo and Other Crude Oils and Compositional Alterations During Oil Spills
By
Edward B. Overton,
Terry L. Wade,
Jagoš R. Radović,
Buffy M. Meyer,
M. Scott Miles, and
Stephen R. Larter
How Do Oil, Gas, and Water Interact Near a Subsea Blowout?
By
Scott A. Socolofsky,
E. Eric Adams,
Claire B. Paris, and
Di Yang
Methods of Oil Detection in Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
By
Helen K. White,
Robyn N. Conmy,
Ian R. MacDonald , and
Christopher M. Reddy
What Happened to All of the Oil?
By
Uta Passow and
Robert D. Hetland
Over What Area Did the Oil and Gas Spread During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
By
Tamay M. Özgökmen,
Eric P. Chassignet,
Clint N. Dawson ,
Dmitry Dukhovskoy,
Gregg Jacobs,
James Ledwell ,
Oscar Garcia-Pineda,
Ian R. MacDonald,
Steven L. Morey,
Maria Josefina Olascoaga,
Andrew C. Poje,
Mark Reed, and
Jørgen Skancke
The Role of Dispersants in Oil Spill Remediation: Fundamental Concepts, Rationale for Use, Fate, and Transport Issues
By
Vijay John,
Carol Arnosti,
Jennifer Field,
Elizabeth Kujawinski , and
Alon McCormick
Marine Snow Sedimented Oil Released During the Deepwater Horizon Spill
By
Uta Passow and
Kai Ziervogel
Weathering of Oil Spilled in the Marine Environment
By
Matthew A. Tarr ,
Phoebe Zito,
Edward B. Overton,
Gregory M. Olson,
Puspa L. Adhikari, and
Christopher M. Reddy
Responses of Microbial Communities to Hydrocarbon Exposures
By
Samantha B. Joye,
Sara Kleindienst,
Jack A. Gilbert ,
Kim M. Handley,
Pamela Weisenhorn,
Will A. Overholt, and
Joel E. Kostka
Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coastal Marshes and Associated Organisms
By
Nancy N. Rabalais and
R. Eugene Turner
How Did the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Affect Coastal and Continental Shelf Ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico?
By
Steven A. Murawski ,
John W. Fleeger ,
William F. Patterson III ,
Chuanmin Hu,
Kendra Daly,
Isabel Romero, and
Gerardo A. Toro-Farmer
Impact of Oil Spills on Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico: Effects on Plankton, Nekton, and Deep-Sea Benthos
By
Edward J. Buskey ,
Helen K. White , and
Andrew J. Esbaugh
How Did the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact Deep-Sea Ecosystems?
By
Charles R. Fisher,
Paul A. Montagna, and
Tracey T. Sutton
Seafood and Beach Safety in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
By
Robert Dickey and
Markus Huettel
Synthesis and Crosscutting Topics of the GoMRI Special Issue
By
John W. Farrington ,
Kathryn A. Burns , and
Margaret S. Leinen
ROGER REVELLE COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE
DEPARTMENTS
QUARTERDECK • Silver Linings: Disasters Can Produce Good Science
By
Ellen Kappel
FROM THE PRESIDENT • TOS To Pilot a Mentoring Program for Ocean Science Graduate Students
By
Alan C. Mix
COMMENTARY • True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection
By
Kristen M. Thyng,
Chad A. Greene ,
Robert D. Hetland ,
Heather M. Zimmerle , and
Steven F. DiMarco
COMMENTARY • North America’s Iconic Marine Species at Risk Due To Unprecedented Ocean Warming
By
Charles H. Greene
COMMENTARY • Assessing Student Learning of Oceanography Concepts
By
Leilani Arthurs
RIPPLE MARKS • Coral Reef Discovered in an Unlikely Locale: The Amazon River’s Freshwater Plume
By
Cheryl Lyn Dybas
THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Why Wet Students Are the Best: The Ins and Outs of Fieldwork
By
Simon Boxall
CAREER PROFILES • Options and Insights
Career profiles—Options and insights. 2016. Oceanography 29(3):229–232.
Special Issue Guest Editors
Debra S. Benoit, Nicholls State University
Kenneth M. Halanych, Auburn University
John Shepherd, University of Southampton
Richard Shaw, Louisiana State University
Chuck Wilson, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
Sponsors
Production of this issue of Oceanography was supported by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.