Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers (ADDOMEx)

Deep-Sea Risk Assessment and Species Sensitivity to WAF, CEWAF and Dispersant

Microbial EPS production in response to oil spills; Prediction of marine aggregate’s exposure to chemically enhanced (COREXIT) water accommodated fraction of oil using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy

Dataset for: The impact of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and phosphorous on responses of microbial plankton to the Texas City “Y” oil spill in Galveston Bay, Texas

The carbon budget for microbial EPS production in response to oil and Corexit for COAST, a mesocosm of coastal water with COASTal microbial concentrate

Coastal water with coastal microbial concentrate (COAST): Microbial cell and micro-aggregate counts with parallel beta-galactosidase activity measurements

EPS mechanisms in aggregation and dispersion of oil: roller tank experiment using Chaetoceros and natural bacterial inoculum

EPS mechanisms in aggregation and dispersion of oil: roller tank experiment using Thalassiosira pseudonana culture and natural bacterial inoculum

Test of Coastal water with coastal microbial concentrate (TeCOAST): Production of TEP as a function of oil

Coastal water with coastal microbial concentrate (COAST): Production of TEP and CSP as a function of oil

GOM open ocean (GOMOO): Production of TEP (transparent exopolymers) and CSP (Coomassie stained particles) as a function of oil

GOM coastal waters (GOMCOAST): Production of TEP (transparent exopolymers) and CSP (Coomassie stained particles) as a function of oil

Impact of Corexit on aggregation of young Chaetoceros: Rolling table experiment to test the aggregation of diatoms, TEP (transparent exopolymers), POC (particulate organic carbon) as a function of oil and oil+Corexit

Impact of Corexit on aggregation of old Chaetoceros: Rolling table experiment to test the aggregation of diatoms, TEP(transparent exopolymers), POC(particulate organic carbon) as a function of oil and oil+Corexit

Impact of Corexit on aggregation of Skeletonema grethae in oil contaminated natural seawater, high oil concentrations: Rolling table experiment to test the aggregation of diatoms, TEP(transparent exopolymers), POC (particulate organic carbon) as a function of the presence of Corexit and investigate the change in marine snow over time

Impact of Corexit on aggregation of Skeletonema grethae or natural particles in oil contaminated natural seawater, low oil concetrations: Rolling table experiment to test the aggregation of diatoms, TEP (transparent exopolymers), POC (particulate organic carbon) as a function of the presence of Corexit and investigate the change in marine snow over time

Phytoplankton community response to crude oil and dispersants in four different mesocosm treatments after 72h

EPS mechanisms which aid in aggregation: A test of light to induce bacterial EPS aggregation, particle size of the EPS solution; protein and carbohydrate composition of aggregates and colloidal filtrate

Photographs of marine phytoplankton exposed to crude oil and dispersants in mesocosm tanks after 72h

Oil Composition for the TeCOAST mesocosm study, Test of COASTal water with coastal microbial concentrate

Oil Composition and nutrients for the COAST mesocosm study, COASTal water with added coastal microbial concentrate

Response of oil-degrading microbes to dispersants and how dispersants affect the ternary system (oil-dispersant-EPS): from TeCOAST, Test of Coastal water with coastal microbial concentrate, DOM FTICR MS data

Response of oil-degrading microbes to dispersants in a ternary system (oil-dispersant-EPS): TeCOAST, a mesocosm Test of COASTal water with microbial concentrate, Solid-state 13C NMR data for EPS

Response of oil-degrading microbes in a ternary system (oil-dispersant-EPS): COAST, coastal water mesocosm with microbial concentrate, solid-state 13C NMR data

p450 gene abundance measurements in the COAST mesocosm study

Three dimensional micrographs of microbe-oil microaggregates from the TeCOAST and COAST mesocosms

Particle counts in different size fractions taken during mesocosms GOMOO, GOM open ocean, and GOMCOAST, GOM coastal waters

Response of oil-degrading microbes in the ternary (oil-dispersant-EPS) system: TeCOAST, Test of Coastal water with coastal microbial concentrate, bottom particle dichloromethane extract FTICR MS data

Response of oil-degrading microbes in the ternary (oil-dispersant-EPS) system: COAST, mesocosm experiment with Coastal water with coastal microbial concentrate, bottom particle dichloromethane extract FTICR MS data

The microbial EPS production and composition in response to oil and Corexit for COAST, a mesocosm of COASTal water with COASTal microbial concentrate

The effect of Oil and Corexit on Marine Phytoplankton Exopolymeric Substances Release

Impact of Oil Spill on Marine Microgel Aggregation Process

GC MS data for bottom particle dichloromethane extracts from the COAST, a COASTAL water mesocosm experiment amended with microbial concentrate

Long Term Marine Oil Snow Experiment (LTMOSE): TEP as a function of time

The effects of sunlight on the composition of exopolymeric substances affecting the subsequent aggregation process during oil spill and Corexit exposure

Roller Tank Experiment for the component-specific Investigation of Oil Incorporation into Marine Oil Snow with a Phytoplankton Mixture (t = 4 days)

Roller Tank Experiment for the component-specific Investigation of Oil Incorporation into Marine Oil Snow with a Phytoplankton Culture (Nodularia) (t = 24 hours)

Component-specific Investigation of Oil Distribution in Seawater - Partitioning of oil in the absence of biota : Control tank data after 1 hour

Extracellular Enzyme Activity Profile in Chemically Enhanced Water Accommodated Fraction of Surrogate Oil from BP Oil Spill

Oil Composition and nutrients for the GOMOO mesocosm using Gulf Of Mexico Open Ocean water

Oil Composition and nutrients for the GOMCOAST mesocosm using Gulf Of Mexico COASTal water

Chemical Composition of WAF made through a novel passive dosing method tested during the GOMCOAST mesocosm using Gulf Of Mexico COASTal water

Photographs of aggregates in the mesocosm COASTal water amended with COASTal microbial concentrate

Percent relative abundance of the eukaryotic microbial community in the GOMCOAST (Gulf of Mexico, Coastal Water) mesocosm from 8 micron polycarbonate filters

Production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and hydrocarbon degradation of bacteria isolated from the northern Gulf of Mexico surface water

Light induced aggregation of protein-containing compounds

Particle size of light induced aggregates using flow cytometry

GOM open ocean (GOMOO): Illumina MiSeq sequenced 16S library of Microbial Community Response to Oil and Corexit

GOM coastal waters (GOMCOAST): Illumina MiSeq sequenced 16S library of Microbial Community Response to Oil and Corexit

Surface tension of exopolymeric substances in seawater in the presence or absence of oil and/or Corexit

Intercalibration of the Estimated Oil Equivalence (EOE) of WAFs and CEWAFs using 3 different spectrofluorometers

Bulk chemistry of aggregates and EPS for roller table experiments for diatom aggregation in the presence or absence of oil

Molecular level characterization of oil and aggregate oxidation products: Mesocosm LTMOSE, a Long Term Marine Oil Snow Experiment, Fourier transform ion cyclotron mass spectrometry (FTICR-MS) data

Molecular level characterization of oil and aggregate oxidation products: Mesocosm LTMOSE, a Long Term Marine Oil Snow Experiment, Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data

Oil concentration, oil composition, biomarkers, and nutrients for the mesocosm LTMOSE, a Long Term Marine Oil Snow Experiment

Marine gels, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and transparent exopolymeric particles (TEP) in natural seawater and seawater contaminated with a water accommodated fraction of Macondo oil surrogate

Petrocarbon incorporation into marine snow in three mesocosm experiments and the exopolymeric substances (EPS) composition

Microbial community dynamics in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) after the summer 2016 mass invertebrate mortality event, 2016-07-31 to 2016-08-01

Microbial community response in non-axenic cultures of Thalassiosira pseudonana to crude oil with and without the chrysolaminarin synthesis inhibitor dichlorobenzonitrile

Biological and physiological responses during 14 day incubations of 15 phytoplankton species in culture exposed to oil and combinations of oil and dispersant

Microbial species growth and exopolymeric substance production microchip screening test

EPS mechanisms in aggregation and dispersion of oil: roller tank experiment using Skeletonema, POC-PON-EOE-TEP-CSP

EPS mechanisms in aggregation and dispersion of oil: roller tank experiment using Skeletonema CCMP strain #776

EPS mechanisms in aggregation and dispersion of oil: roller tank experiment using the diatom Odontella

EPS mechanisms which aid in aggregation: A test of light to induce bacterial EPS aggregation, turbidity, aggregate weight, FTIR, DOC and DN, and UV-Vis

EPS mechanisms which aid in aggregation: Light-induced aggregation of bacterial exopolymeric substances using DLS

Impact of Oil and Corexit on Marine Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Aggregation and Microgel Formation Through Dynamic Laser Scattering (DLS)

Illumina MiSeq sequenced 16S library of Microbial Community Response to Oil and Corexit in Coastal Water Mesocosms

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) observation of morphologies of sediments from a mesocosm experiment studying formation of marine aggregates with oil and dispersant

Fluorescence Enhancement Measurement of hydrophobic components and polysaccharides in sediment exposed to oil and dispersant

False-colored photographs of micro-scale microbial aggregates collected from four different mesocosm treatments after 48 hours

Raw and processed negative electrospray ionization coupled to Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (ESI-FTICR-MS) data for mesocosm experiment samples collected from bulk DOM tank, control tank marine snow, and WAF tank marine snow.

Photographs of microbial aggregates with and without oil or Corexit collected from four different mesocosm treatments

Fast repetition rate fluorescence responses of natural phytoplankton communities incubated for 3 days in a mesocosm experiment exposed to crude oil and chemical dispersants, July 2016

Eukaryotic community response to oil and Corexit in a coastal water mesocosm, August 2015

Eukaryotic community response to oil and Corexit in a mesocosm, October 2015

Estimated Oil Equivalence (EOE) of Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) made through three different procedures

Chemical composition of Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) made through three different procedures

Toxicity of 1-methylnaphthalene to Americamysis bahia for use in the target lipid model

DETOX 1: Concentration of 1-methyl naphthalene in dosing chambers of deep sea organisms

Toxicity of 1-methylnaphthalene to five deep-sea micronekton species

Partitioning coefficient of 1-methyl naphthalene and phenanthrene at various temperature and salinity

Phenanthrene Toxicity to Americamysis bahia and 5 deep-sea crustaceans

Chemical composition of WAF made with traditional CROSERF method and two passive dosing methods and comparison with predicted concentrations from PETROTOX model

MC252 Oil Toxicity to Americamysis bahia, Lysmata boggessi, and two Deep-Sea Crustaceans

Toxicity of chemically enhanced water accommodated fraction (CEWAF) of MC252 crude oil and Corexit 9500 to 4 deep-sea crustaceans

Acute toxicity of chemically enhanced water accommodated fraction (CEWAF) to deep-sea crustaceans and peppermint shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni)