Oceanography | Vol.29, No.3
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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 SPONSOR
Production of this issue of Oceanography
was supported by the Gulf of Mexico
Research Initiative.
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
126 Weathering of Oil Spilled in the Marine Environment
By M.A. Tarr, P. Zito, E.B. Overton, G.M. Olson, P.L. Adhikari, and C.M. Reddy
136 Responses of Microbial Communities to Hydrocarbon Exposures
By S.B. Joye, S. Kleindienst, J.A. Gilbert, K.M. Handley, P. Weisenhorn,
W.A. Overholt, and J.E. Kostka
150 Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coastal Marshes and
Associated Organisms
By N.N. Rabalais and R.E. Turner
160 How Did the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Affect Coastal and Continental Shelf
Ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico?
By S.A. Murawski, J.W. Fleeger, W.F. Patterson III, C. Hu, K. Daly, I. Romero,
and G.A. Toro-Farmer
174 Impact of Oil Spills on Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico: Effects on Plankton,
Nekton, and Deep-Sea Benthos
By E.J. Buskey, H.K. White, and A.J. Esbaugh
182 How Did the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact Deep-Sea Ecosystems?
By C.R. Fisher, P.A. Montagna, and T.T. Sutton
196 Seafood and Beach Safety in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
By R. Dickey and M. Huettel
204 Synthesis and Crosscutting Topics of the GoMRI Special Issue
By J.W. Farrington, K.A. Burns, and M.S. Leinen
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