Severe ecological impacts caused by one of the worst orphan oil spills worldwide

MO Soares, EF Rabelo - Marine Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Orphan oil spills pose a severe risk to ocean sustainability; however, they are understudied.
We provide the first synthetic assessment of short-term ecological impacts of the most …

How did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact deep-sea ecosystems?

CR Fisher, PA Montagna, TT Sutton - Oceanography, 2016 - JSTOR
Approximately 90% of the volume of the Gulf of Mexico is contained in water deeper than
200 m, a region where the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout had more impact on …

A synthesis of deep benthic faunal impacts and resilience following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

PT Schwing, PA Montagna, SB Joye… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill significantly impacted the northern Gulf of Mexico
(nGoM) deep benthos (> 125 m water depth) at different spatial scales and across all …

The expanded footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico deep-sea benthos

MG Reuscher, JG Baguley, PA Montagna - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout off the coast of Louisiana caused the largest marine
oil spill on record. Samples were collected 2–3 months after the Macondo well was capped …

Persistent and substantial impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea megafauna

CR McClain, C Nunnally… - Royal Society Open …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Deepwater Horizon spill is one of the largest environmental disasters with extensive
impacts on the economic and ecological health of the Gulf of Mexico. Surface oil and coastal …

Deep learning for detection and counting of Nephrops norvegicus from underwater videos

AB Burguera, F Bonin-Font… - ICES Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) is one of the most important fishery
items for the EU blue economy. This paper describes a software architecture based on …

Significant tipping points of sediment microeukaryotes forewarn increasing antibiotic pollution

C Wang, Z Yao, P Zhan, X Yi, J Chen, J Xiong - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic pollution imposes urgent threats to public health and microbial-mediated
ecological processes. Existing studies have primarily focused on bacterial responses to …

Environmental and benthic community patterns of the shallow hydrothermal area of Secca delle Fumose (Baia, Naples, Italy)

L Donnarumma, L Appolloni, E Chianese… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The occurrence of hydrothermal vent ecosystems at Secca delle Fumose, Pozzuoli Bay (Gulf
of Naples), represented an opportunity to study the benthic assemblages under the thermal …

Macrobenthic community structure in the deep Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon blowout

TW Washburn, MG Reuscher, PA Montagna… - Deep Sea Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster on deep-sea Gulf of Mexico
benthic communities were analyzed one year after the blowout. Richness, diversity, and …

How quickly will the offshore ecosystem recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Lessons learned from the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil well blowout

M Rohal, N Barrera, E Escobar-Briones, G Brooks… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) accident occurred on 20 April 2010 in the Northern
Gulf of Mexico and resulted in a deep-sea plume of petroleum hydrocarbons and a marine …