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Dataset For: Toxicity And Mutagenicity Of The Gulf Of Mexico Waters During And After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, July 2010-August 2013, Lauren Mcdaniel Nov 2017

Dataset For: Toxicity And Mutagenicity Of The Gulf Of Mexico Waters During And After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, July 2010-August 2013, Lauren Mcdaniel

C-IMAGE data

The dataset is representative of 20 research cruises spanning from July 2010 to August 2013 in the North and West Florida Shelf regions of the Gulf of Mexico. This dataset reports microtoxicity data from each site and is an extension and revision of C-IMAGE I dataset R1.x135.119:0005. The North Florida Self data also contains PAH measurements for three cruises (12/6/2010, 12/15/2011, 8/6/2013).


Sun Glint Critical Angle Oil Detection, Shaojie Sun Oct 2017

Sun Glint Critical Angle Oil Detection, Shaojie Sun

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This dataset includes two MODIS L1B images and the generated sun glint reflectance (LGN) data after atmospheric correction. LGN was also modeled for the two images according to the sun/view geometry, oil and water fresnel reflection. This dataset introduced atmospheric correction and different oil fresnel reflection with water in the calculation of sun glint reflectance from MODIS imagery. By doing this, the calculated sun glint reflectance results are more accurate and the original concept of sun glint critical angle is refined.


Development Of A Marine Compatible Biological Assay For Mutagenic Compounds, Lauren Mcdaniel Oct 2017

Development Of A Marine Compatible Biological Assay For Mutagenic Compounds, Lauren Mcdaniel

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One of the primary negative effects of environmental oil exposure is the potential for mutagenic, or DNA damaging effects. This can lead to heritable genetic damage in higher organisms with long-term environmental impact. The biological effect of contamination is difficult to estimate on the basis of chemical profiles due to the complexity of environmental samples. Thus, biologically based assays give a closer approximation of the actual ecological impacts of contamination. To measure the mutagenic or DNA damaging potential of samples we currently utilize the Microscreen Assay, which is based upon a strain of Escherichia coli that is sensitive to mutagenic …


Fish Exposure Studies: Associated Water, Sediment And Food Microbiology And Mutagenic Potential, Lauren Mcdaniel Oct 2017

Fish Exposure Studies: Associated Water, Sediment And Food Microbiology And Mutagenic Potential, Lauren Mcdaniel

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As part of an ongoing assessment of the long-term impacts of oil and dispersants on ecosystem health experiments were performed to examine the effects of exposure on different species of fish and varying routes of exposure. As a part of this study we directly assessed the mutagenic potential of the contaminated treatments as well as the surrounding environment in which the fish were contained. For these assessments we used the biologically based assay of DNA damage termed the Microscreen Assay. General microbiological parameters including total viral and bacterial counts and culturable bacterial counts were also measured. Fish experiment data are …


Cruises R/V Endeavor (En505) And R/V Weatherbird Ii (Wb1205) Gulf Of Mexico Water Chemistry (Spring 2012), Patrick Schwing, Jeff Chanton Sep 2017

Cruises R/V Endeavor (En505) And R/V Weatherbird Ii (Wb1205) Gulf Of Mexico Water Chemistry (Spring 2012), Patrick Schwing, Jeff Chanton

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains water column measurements made onboard the R/V Endeavor and R/V Weatherbird in May 2012 including temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, methane concentrations, del13C, and 14C of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC).


Landsat Based Sargassum Coverage In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, 2010, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng Aug 2017

Landsat Based Sargassum Coverage In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, 2010, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains the sargassum coverage in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico detected using both Landsat remote sensing images and airborne AVIRIS data. The mean Sargassum coverage during the four quarters of 2010 for the study region are also provided. Dataset results are provided in Excel format and correspond to the the publication: Hu, C.; Hardy, R.; Ruder, E.; Geggel, A.; Feng, L.; Powers, S.; Hernandez, F.; Graettinger, G.; Bodnar, J.; McDonald, T. (2016). Sargassum coverage in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico during 2010 from Landsat and airborne observations: Implications for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact assessment. Marine Pollution …


Ecopath With Ecosim Model Of The West Florida Shelf Representing 1980 For Harmful Algal Bloom Simulations, Cameron Ainsworth, Alisha Gray Aug 2017

Ecopath With Ecosim Model Of The West Florida Shelf Representing 1980 For Harmful Algal Bloom Simulations, Cameron Ainsworth, Alisha Gray

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This is an Ecopath with Ecosim model of the West Florida Shelf. It is based on a model constructed by Mahmoudi (unpublished data) (see Okey et al. 2004 for an application) and later modified Gray et al. 2013 to incorporate additional exploited and non-exploited species and life stages known to be sensitive to harmful algal blooms (HABs). To incorporate HABs an additional (pseudo) fishing fleet is added into the model to provide a red tide mortality driver on adult fish and invertebrates. Biomass caught by this fleet is immediately cycled into the detritus pool, and thus nutrients from killed fish …


Species Specific Metabolic Capacity Of Naphthalene And Phenanthrene In Three Species Of Marine Teleosts Exposed To Deepwater Horizon Crude Oil, Erin Pulster Aug 2017

Species Specific Metabolic Capacity Of Naphthalene And Phenanthrene In Three Species Of Marine Teleosts Exposed To Deepwater Horizon Crude Oil, Erin Pulster

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Select monohydroxylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) metabolites were measured in three marine teleosts, red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) and southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) to evaluate species specific metabolic differences. Fish were exposed to DWH crude oil by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections at time 0 and 48 hours with bile sampling events at 24 and 72 hours post injection. Biliary levels of monohydroxylated naphthalene and phenanthrene metabolites were confirmed and quantified using gas chromatography triple quadrapole mass spectrometry.


Northern Gulf Of Mexico Pb-210 Inventories, 2010-2013, Patrick Schwing Jul 2017

Northern Gulf Of Mexico Pb-210 Inventories, 2010-2013, Patrick Schwing

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This dataset consists of Pb-210 activity measurements from sediment cores taken throughout the northern Gulf of Mexico with relation to the Deepwater Horizon. Short-lived radioisotope measurements and geochronological model calculations follow those presented in Brooks GR, et al. (2015) Sedimentation Pulse in the NE Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 DWH Blowout. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0132341. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132341. Samples were analyzed by gamma spectrometry on Canberra HPGe (High-Purity Germanium) Coaxial Planar Photon Detectors for total 210Pb (46.5Kev), 214Pb (295 Kev and 351 Kev), and 214Bi (609Kev) activities. Data were corrected for counting time and detector efficiency, as well as for the …


Remote Sensing Estimation Of Surface Oil Volume During The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout In The Gulf Of Mexico: Scaling Up Aviris Observation With Modis Measurements, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng Jun 2017

Remote Sensing Estimation Of Surface Oil Volume During The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout In The Gulf Of Mexico: Scaling Up Aviris Observation With Modis Measurements, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains Rayleigh corrected reflectance data from 19 MODIS images collected between April and July 2010, along with their corresponding maps of surface oil volume, maps of relative oil thickness of different classes, and maps of probability distributions of different thicknesses. Surface oil was estimated by spatially scaling up AVIRIS observations to synoptic MODIS measurements, which were the used to derived oil classification and probability maps.


Sargassum Detection Using Modis, Aviris, Landsat, And Hico Imagery, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng Jun 2017

Sargassum Detection Using Modis, Aviris, Landsat, And Hico Imagery, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng

C-IMAGE data

This dataset includes Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Airborne Visible-InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), Landsat and Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) images used in the paper: Hu, C., Feng, L., Hardy, R. F., & Hochberg, E. J. (2015). Spectral and spatial requirements of remote measurements of pelagic Sargassum macroalgae. Remote Sensing of Environment, 167, 229–246. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.022, together with the delineated sargassum features. The in situ spectral measurements used as endmembers to simulate the results are also included.


Justo Sierra Cruise Sample Data, Southern Gulf Of Mexico, 2015, Patrick Schwing Mar 2017

Justo Sierra Cruise Sample Data, Southern Gulf Of Mexico, 2015, Patrick Schwing

C-IMAGE data

This dataset includes CTD data from two cruises aboard the B/O Justo Sierra in 2015. Data are in ACSII and RAW format.


Oil Extraction Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (Viirs) Imagery, Western Gulf Of Mexico 2005-2013, Mengqiu Wang Mar 2017

Oil Extraction Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (Viirs) Imagery, Western Gulf Of Mexico 2005-2013, Mengqiu Wang

C-IMAGE data

This dataset includes MODIS and VIIRS imagery used in the paper "Extracting Oil Slick Features From VIIRS Nighttime Imagery Using a Gaussian Filter and Morphological Constraints" (DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2444871). For accuracy assessment, the ROI file used as oil slick ground truth, feature extraction results, the VIIRS nighttime imagery used in the test and the final accuracy assessment statistics are also included.


Ixtoc-I Oil Spill Footprints Derived From Coastal Zone Color Scanner And Landsat/Mss Imagery, Shaojie Sun Mar 2017

Ixtoc-I Oil Spill Footprints Derived From Coastal Zone Color Scanner And Landsat/Mss Imagery, Shaojie Sun

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) and Landsat/MSS images used to identify the surface oil footprints created by the Ixtoc-I oil spill in 1979. There are two periods of imagery: June 1979-March 1980 is the oil spill period; and Jan. 1981-Dec. 1982 is the reference period. Oil slick surface footprints derived from the images are also included in the dataset. They are either in the format of shapefile or ArcGIS personal geodatabase.


Weatherbird Ii Sediment Cruise Sample Data (2016), Patrick Schwing, Steven Murawski Mar 2017

Weatherbird Ii Sediment Cruise Sample Data (2016), Patrick Schwing, Steven Murawski

C-IMAGE data

This dataset includes the locations and allotments of multicore sediment samples, water sample locations, and CTD data from cruises aboard the R/V Weatherbird II from 2016.


Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Modis) Surface Oil Products For The Gulf Of Mexico, April - July 2010, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng Feb 2017

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Modis) Surface Oil Products For The Gulf Of Mexico, April - July 2010, Chuanmin Hu, Lian Feng

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains the MODIS surface oil products (with thickness of >0 but 8um as thick) for all the golden days between April and July of 2010.


Deepwater Horizon Incident Oil Slick Morphology Determined From United States Geological Survey Oil Volume Product, May 17 2010, Shaojie Sun Feb 2017

Deepwater Horizon Incident Oil Slick Morphology Determined From United States Geological Survey Oil Volume Product, May 17 2010, Shaojie Sun

C-IMAGE data

This dataset includes original oil volume product download from USGS, post processing file to remove noise and then classified to different oil thickness class file. All the afterward analysis and statistics are based on the classified oil thickness class file. Ascii files of oil slicks' area and length.


Weatherbird Ii Sediment Cruise Sample Data 2015, Patrick Schwing Feb 2017

Weatherbird Ii Sediment Cruise Sample Data 2015, Patrick Schwing

C-IMAGE data

This dataset includes the locations and allotments of multicore sediment samples, water sample locations, and CTD data from cruises aboard the R/V Weatherbird II from 2015.


Dataset For: Sun Glint Requirement For The Remote Detection Of Surface Oil Films, Mengqiu Wang Feb 2017

Dataset For: Sun Glint Requirement For The Remote Detection Of Surface Oil Films, Mengqiu Wang

C-IMAGE data

This dataset includes selected points and their sun glint strength values of image pairs which were used in determining the sun glint threshold required for remotely sensing oil films in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The satellite imagery used in the analyses were collected by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra (MODIST), MODIS Aqua (MODISA), and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments. The dataset includes original raw file lists of the imagery used and information about how they can accessed can be found in the Supplemental Information section of the metadata. Post processing MODIS Rayleigh corrected reflectance (Rrc) data, …