Talks

October 25, 2011:

• Welcome
  Dr. Jerry Miller, (OSTP), SOST Co-Chair
  
• Deepwater Horizon -­ The Next Chapter (Keynote)
  Dr. Larry Robinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere‐NOAA
  
• Workshop Goals and Objectives
  Paul Sandifer (NOAA), SOST Co-Chair
  Rudy Schuster (USGS), Program Committee
• Plenary: Overview of the Issues – Part I
  Moderated by David Conover (NSF), SOST Co-Chair
  • Oil/dispersant - extent and fate
    Tom Ryerson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation in coastal environments
    Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida
• Plenary: Overview of the Issues – Part II
  Moderated by David Conover (NSF), SOST Co-Chair
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation on human health and socio-economic systems
    Grattan, Lynn. University of Maryland
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation in offshore environments
    Highsmith, Ray. University of Mississippi
  • Oil/dispersant-impacts and mitigation on living marine resources
    Murawski, Steve. University of South Florida
  • Use of in situ and remote sensors, sampling and systems for assessing extent, fate, impacts and mitigation of oil/dispersant
    Roffer, Mitch. Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, Inc.
• Concurrent Science Sessions
  • Oil/dispersant - extent and fate
    1. Aerosol Formation From Oil Vapors Downwind from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
       de Gouw, Joost. NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory& CIRES, CU Boulder
    2. Assessing fate and transport issues of the DWH oil spill using simulations and merged datasets
       Fitzpatrick, Pat. Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University
    3. A High-Level Overview of The Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbons in the Environment (CARTHE)
       Haus, Brian K. University of Miami
    4. Remineralization of Hydrocarbon in the Northern Gulf of Mexico bottom waters in 2010 Summer - a multi-year data comparison
       Hu, Xinping. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia
    5. The biogeochemical cycling of dissolved methane and oxygen associated with the Deepwater Horizon disaster
       Kessler, John. Texas A&M University
    6. Surface tar distribution in Eastern Gulf of Mexico 2010‐2011
       Kovach, Charles. Florida Department of Environmental Protection
    7. Trapping and escape of buoyant plumes in stratified water
       McLaughlin, Richard M. UNC Chapel Hill
    8. Methods for oil spill tracking leading to accelerated containment and cleanup
       Mezic, Igor. UCSB
    9. Simulating the dispersal of aging oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill with a Lagrangian approach
       North, Elizabeth W. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
    10. Three-dimensional evolution of the Macondo well blowout: What can we learn from numerical modeling?
        Paris, Claire. RSMAS
    11. Characteristics of Black Carbon Aerosol from a Surface Oil Burn During the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
        Perring, Anne. NOAA/CIRES
    12. Synchrotron‐Based Methods for Investigating Degradation of BP Macondo Oil
        Roy, Amitava. LSU
    13. Microbial respiration of oil in surface waters in close proximity to the Deepwater Horizon site
        Van Mooy, Benjamin. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    14. Optical properties of the DOM from the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
        Zhou, ZhengZhen. University of Southern Mississippi
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation in coastal environments
    1. Documenting and characterizing oil in swash zone sediments of beaches impacted by the DWH oil spill: a short and long term view
       Bell, Susan S. Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
    2. Field Monitoring of Oiled-Wetland Erosion in South Louisiana
       Chen, Q. Jim. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Louisiana State University
    3. Impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the health and productivity of LA salt marshes
       Cho, Hyun Jung. Bethune-Cookman University
    4. Persistence of DWH n-alkanes and PAHs, Bay Jimmy marshes, Barataria Bay, LA: Year 1
       Deocampo, Dan. Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University
    5. Zooplankton community change and biomass reduction during Deepwater Horizon
       Graham, William. University of Southern Mississippi
    6. Effect of Macondo oil on insect & spider communities on coastal dunes and in saltmarshes in Louisiana
       Hooper-Bui, Linda M. Lousiana State University
    7. Penetration, accumulation and degradation of Deepwater Horizon oil in Florida sandy beaches
       Huettel, Markus. Florida State University
    8. The effects of oil on microbial production in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
       Jeffrey, Wade H. Center for Environmental Diagnostics & Bioremediation, University of West Florida
    9. National Status and Trends Program, Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill Response
       Lauenstein, Gunnar. Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Coastal & Oceanographic Assessment, Status and Trends (COAST)
    10. Enhancing the biodegradation of Macondo well (MC252) crude oil in nearshore coastal Alabama ecosystems with marine organic substrates: Evidence from stable isotopes and biomarkers
        Mortazavi, Behzad. University of Alabama
    11. Biodegradation of Emulsified MC252 Oil in Coastal Salt Marshes
        Pardue, John H. Civil & Environmental Engineering, LSU
    12. Oyster Reefs as Critical Habitat: Assessing Short-and-Long-Term Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Spill and other Stressors
        Proffitt, Ed. Florida Atlantic University
    13. Coastal Alabama microbial community responses to the DWH oil spill
        Sobecky, Patricia. University of Alabama
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation in offshore environment
  1. Assessing the potential impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on invertebrates associated with deep-water coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico
     Cho, Walter. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  2. Water column methane dynamics in response to the Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon spill
     Crespo-Medina, Melitza. University of Georgia
  3. Assessing the impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill on sediments and benthic communities on the West Florida Slope
     Flower, Benjamin. University of South Florida
  4. Loop current dynamics from remote and in-situ observations: April 2009 to July 2010
     Hamilton, Peter. Science Applications International Corporation
  5. Deposition, distribution and fate of Macondo oil in the sediments of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
     Hollander, David. University of South Florida
  6. Sediment quality triad in the deep-sea during Fall 2010
     Montagna, Paul. Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  7. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and pelagic foodwebs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
     Montoya, Joseph. Georgia Tech
  8. The value of dispersants for oil spill response
     Nedwed, Tim. ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
  9. Microbial Toxicity and Mutagenicity of Waters Near the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
     Paul, John. University of South Florida
  10. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, trace element, and nutrient distributions as affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
      Shiller, Alan. University of Southern Mississippi
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation on human health and socio-economic systems
  1. Perceived and anticipated health impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
     Abramson, David. Columbia University
  2. Spill-related BOEM socioeconomic research in the Gulf
     Harry, Luton. BOEM Gulf of Mexico Region
  3. Women and their children's health study
     Peters, Edward. LSUHSC-NO School of Public Health
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation on living marine resources
  1. Effects of oil spill related fishing closures on reef fish of the Florida west coast
     Die, David. University of Miami
  2. LMR assessment in the Gulf from the NRDA perspective
     DiPinto, Lisa. NOAA
  3. The physiological effects of resident killifish impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
     Galvez, Fernando. Louisiana State University; Biological Sciences
  4. Sargassum, fish, invertebrates, and the oil spill
     Hernandez Jr, Frank. Dauphin Island Sea Lab
  5. Occurrence, distribution, and movements of whale sharks in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
     Hoffmayer, Eric. NOAA Fisheries
  6. Overlap between Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning grounds and observed Deepwater Horizon surface oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico
     Lamkin, John. NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center
  7. Biodiversity baseline and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
     Moretzsohn, Fabio. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  8. Otolith nickel and vanadium as lifetime markers of fish exposure to crude oil
     Peebles, Ernst. University of South Florida
  9. The impact of oil on deepwater coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico
     White, Helen. Haverford College
  10. Genome expression response of resident killifish impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
      Whitehead, Andrew. Louisiana State University
  • Use of in situ and remote sensors, sampling and systems for assessing extent, fate, impacts and mitigation of oil/dispersant
    1. Fluorescence-based detection of oil and oil-dispersant mixtures in seawater--in the Gulf of Mexico and in a flow-through tank experiment
       Abercrombie, Mary. USF College of Marine Science
    2. Remote sensing overview of BP oil discharge from satellite SAR data
       Garcia-Pineda, Oscar. Florida State University
    3. Wave Glider – Monitoring the Gulf of Mexico
       Hine, Graham. Liquid Robotics, Inc.
    4. Applications of high frequency radar surface currents for response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
       Howden, Stephan. University of Southern Mississippi
    5. Updated result interpretation from the SMART dispersant monitoring program at the DWH incident
       Levine, Ed. NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
    6. Aircraft surveys of Loop Current variability observed during Deepwater Horizon
       Shay, Lynn (Nick). UM/RSMAS
    7. Utilizing in situ observations and satellite measurements to examine the extent and variability of the DWH oil spill
       Smith, Ryan. NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory
    8. Physico-chemical characteristics of soil and liquid samples collected from Gulf of Mexico and Deepwater Horizon oil spill site
       Srinivasan, Sesha. Tuskegee University

October 26, 2011: Where do we go from here?

• Breakout Groups: Gaps and Future Direction Discussion
  • Oil/dispersant - extent and fate
    Julien Lartigue (NOAA), Facilitator
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation in coastal environments
    Steven Sempier (MS/AL Sea Grant), Facilitator
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation in offshore environments
    Walter Johnson (BOEM), Facilitator
  • Oil/dispersant - impacts and mitigation on human health and socio-economic systems
    Rudy Schuster (USGS) and Allen Dearry (NIH), Facilitators
  • Oil/dispersant-­-impacts and mitigation on living marine resources
    Cathy Tortorici (NOAA), Facilitator
  • Use of in situ and remote sensors, sampling and systems for assessing extent, fate, impacts and mitigation of oil/dispersant
    CDR Eric Miller (USCG), Facilitator
• Plenary: Report Outs from Breakout Groups
  Moderated by Paul Sandifer (NOAA), SOST Co-Chair
  • Oil/dispersant - extent and fate
• Plenary: Synthesis, Group Insights, and Next Steps
  Moderated Jerry Miller (OSTP), SOST Co-Chair