September 2016

Special Issue on GoMRI: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science

Oceanography | Vol.29, No.3

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Bay

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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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