OS020
Lessons Learned and Global Applications from Deepwater Horizon

Session ID#: 80683

Session Description:
The demand for oil and gas has increased deepwater extraction from the ocean. Over 40% of Gulf of Mexico (GoM) produced oil is extracted from 1,500 meters, and similarly deep wells are tapped off Brazil, West Africa and in Asian waters. The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) event did much to change the perception of deep and ultra-deep water oil releases, creating a myriad of new environmental clean-up and restoration challenges.

This session will consider deepwater oil spills from a number of perspectives after nearly a decade of DWH research including: Physical and chemical factors that determine the volume and distribution of oil from such spills; Effectiveness of response measures for environmental protection; Effective baseline data gathering in sediments and fauna; Effects of MOSSFA events in benthic microcosms; and Different scenarios based on these factors and simulate/predict oil fate and effects to contrast them with previous spills (and especially DWH).

Index Terms:

3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4803 Analytical chemistry [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4894 Instruments, sensors, and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]

Primary Convener:  Liesl A Hotaling, Eidos Education/Marine Technology Society, Highlands, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Steven A Murawski, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Patrick T Schwing, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States and Simeon Pesch, Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Multiphase Flows, Hamburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Liesl A Hotaling, Eidos Education/Marine Technology Society, Highlands, NJ, United States
 
The need for comprehensive benthic baselines and monitoring programs prior to marine petroleum extraction: Lessons learned form the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (490074)
Patrick T Schwing1, Bryan J O'Malley2, Gregg Brooks1, Rebecca Larson3, Isabel C Romero4, Melissa Rohal5, Paul Montagna6, Maria-Luisa Machain Casitllo7, Michael Reuscher8, Elva G Escobar-Briones7, David W Hastings3,9, Maickel Armenteros-Almanza10, Misael Diaz Asencio11, Jagos Radovic12, Adrian Martinez Suarez13 and David J Hollander4, (1)Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, United States, (3)Eckerd College, Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (4)University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (5)Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, United States, (6)Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (7)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, (8)Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (9)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (10)National Autonomous UNiversity of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad de México, Mexico, (11)Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba, (12)University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, (13)Universidad de La Habana, Centro de Invesigaciones Marinas, Habana, Cuba
 
Effects of Dispersed Oil on Marine Plankton and Planktonic Food Webs in the Gulf of Mexico (492398)
Edward J Buskey, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Sarah Cosgrove, University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science, Port Aransas, TX, United States, Brad Gemmell, University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology, Tampa, FL, United States and Rodrigo Almeda, Technical University of Denmark, National Institute for Aquatic Resources, DTU Aqua, Charlottenlund, Denmark
 
What Is (or Is Not) a Result from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill? (504137)
Nancy N Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States; Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon: Uncertainties and Challenges in Numerical Simulations of the Oil Spill (506788)
Dmitry S Dukhovskoy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Steven L Morey, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Eric Chassignet, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Vulnerability and Resilience of Species and Ecosystems to Large-Scale Contamination Events: Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon (540597)
Steven A Murawski, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, William Frank Patterson III, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, United States, Patrick T Schwing, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Paul Montagna, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, Rosanna Milligan, University of Glasgow, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Tracey Sutton, Nova Southeastern University, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Dania Beach, FL, United States, Joshua Kilborn, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, United States and Sherryl Gilbert, University of South Florida, St. petersburg, United States
 
New Visions for Oil Spill Preparedness from the Perspective of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout, the Sediment Slumping at Taylor Energy, and Continued Ultra-Deep Oil Exploration and Production in Frontier Region (549242)
David J Hollander1, Steven A Murawski2, Claire B Paris3, Michael Schlüter4, Patrick T Schwing5, Simeon Pesch4, Thomas Oldenburg6, Chuanmin Hu7, Isabel C Romero8 and Steve Larter9, (1)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Multiphase Flows, Hamburg, Germany, (5)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (6)University of Calgary, Department of Geosciences, Calgary, AB, Canada, (7)University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (8)University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (9)Boulder, CO, United States
 
Simulating Deep Oil Spills Beyond the Gulf of Mexico (551468)
Claire B Paris1, Ana Carolina Vaz, Igal Berenshtein3, Natalie Perlin1, Robin Faillettaz1, Zachary M. Aman4 and Steven A Murawski5, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (3)University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, (4)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
 
Deep-Sea Oil Spills – Investigating Droplet Size Distributions and Oil Fate in Experiments and Modeling (580469)
Simeon Pesch1, Claire B Paris2, Rebecca Knopf1, Marc Maly1, Anahita Radmehr1, Natalie Perlin2, Ana Vaz3, Zachary M. Aman4, Marko Hoffmann1 and Michael Schlüter1, (1)Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Multiphase Flows, Hamburg, Germany, (2)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (3)RSMAS - UMiami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (4)University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
 
Microbial signals of perturbation, recovery and resilience – lessons learned and applications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Invited) (590093)
Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Joel E Kostka, Do Not Wish to Give out, Atlanta, GA, United States and Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD, United States
 
IXTOC – 1 Oil Spill (Southern Gulf of Mexico), an Analog for Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (592413)
Maria-Luisa Machain Casitllo1, Adolfo Gracia1, Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernandez2, Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza3, Patrick T Schwing4, Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramírez5, Hector M Alexander-Valdés6, Xinantecatl A Nava-Fernández5, Laura Almaraz-Ruiz7,8 and David J Hollander9, (1)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, (2)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Mexico City, Mexico, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologiá, Mexico City, Mexico, (4)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (5)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (6)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Procesos Oceánicos y Costeros, Cd. Mx, Mexico, (7)Redondo Beach, CA, United States, (8)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Mexico city, NM, Mexico, (9)University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
 
The fate of spilled-oil from the water column to the seafloor: Lessons learned from geochemical analyses of sediments after the DWH spill (607236)
Isabel C Romero, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Jeff Chanton, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Gregg Brooks, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Rebekka Larson, Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL, United States and Arne R Diercks, The University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
Communicating Science with C-IMAGE (610201)
David Levin, Self Employed, Boston, MA, United States; Independent Science Writer/Producer, Boston, MA, United States, Ari Daniel, Independent Science Reporter, Boston, MA, United States, Liesl A Hotaling, Eidos Education/Marine Technology Society, Highlands, NJ, United States and Mind Open Media
 
Sealing Wellbores at the end of their lifecycle to restore subsurface seal integrity and prevent offshore wellbore leakage (618171)
Sai Vamsi Krishna Vissa1, Mileva Radonjic2 and Yanyao Li1, (1)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Chemical Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Understanding the Impact of the 2010 Oil Spill on Deep Diving Marine Mammals (623987)
Natalia Sidorovskaia and Kun Li, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States
 
How a deepwater oil spill provided a new perspective on fish egg vertical distribution (625593)
Robin Faillettaz1, Christina Pasparakis2, Lela Schlenker2, Ana Vaz1, John Stieglitz2, Daniel Benetti2, Martin Grosell1 and Claire B Paris1, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Miami, United States
 
Contamination by Drilling Fluids on Wellbore Cement Plugs (630270)
Yanyao Li, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Chemical Engineering, Stillwater, LA, United States, Mileva Radonjic, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States and Sai Vamsi Krishna Vissa, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Chemical Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States
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