GERG Recent Publications

2006

Powell, B.S., R. Leben, N. Guinasso Jr., 2006, Comparison of Buoy and Altimeter-Derived Shelf Currents Using an Optimal Operator, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Vol. 3, 192-196.

Price, J.M., M. Reid, M. Howard, W. Johnson, Z. Ji, C. Marshall, N. Guinasso Jr., G. Rainey, 2006, Preliminary assessment of an oil-spill trajectory model using satellite-tracked, oil-spill-simulating drifters, Environmental Modeling & Software Vol. 21, 258-270.

Vardaro, M.F., I. MacDonald, L. Bender, N. Guinasso Jr., 2006, Dynamic processes observed at a gas hydrate outcropping on the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico, Geo Marine Letters Vol. 26, 6-15.

Sassen, R., H. Roberts, W. Jung, C. Lutken, D. DeFreitas, S. Sweet, N. Guinasso Jr., 2006, The Mississippi Canyon 118 Gas Hydrate Site: A Complex Natural System,  2006 Offshore Technology Conference Vol. 18132.

Sassen, R., J. A. Curiale, 2006. Microbial methane and ethane from gas hydrate nodules of the Makassar Strait, Indonesia, Organic Geochemistry 37, 997-980.

2005

DiMarco, S., L. Campbell, N. Guinasso Jr., 2005, A New Master's Level Certificate in Ocean Observing Systems at Texas A&M University, Marine Technology Society Journal Vol. 39, 96-98.

Milkov, A.V., G. Claypool, Y. Lee, R. Sassen, 2005, Gas hydrate systems at Hydrate Ridge offshore Oregon inferred from molecular and isotopic properties of hydrate-bound gases, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Vol. 69, 1007-1026.

Sassen, R., 2005, Geology and Geochemistry of gas gyrate in the Gulf of Mexico: global context, Korean International Gas Hydrate Symposium, 11-11 November 2005, Seoul, Korea, 1-6.

Sassen, R., P. Post, W. Jung, D. DeFreitas, E. McDade, 2005, Laminated lime mudstone of the Early Oxfordian Smackover Formation of the Northern Gulf Rim: Significance to environments of deposition of carbonate sediments, GCSSEPM Vol. 25, 1-17.

Zhang, C.L., Z. Huang, J. Cantu, R. Pancost, R. Brigmon, T. Lyons, R. Sassen, 2005, Lipid biomarkers and carbon-isotope signatures of a microbial (Beggiatoa) mat associated with gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico, Applied and Environmental Microbiology Vol. 71, 2106-2112.

Oros, D.R., D. Hoover, F. Rodigari, D. Crane, J. Sericano, 2005, Levels and distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in water, surface sediments, and bivalves from the San Francisco Estuary, Environmental Science and Toxicology Vol. 39, 33-41.

Wade, T.L., G. Wolff, B. Presley, 2005, Contaminant Chemistry: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) and Trace Elements (TE) Northern Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the 23^ed MMS ITM Meeting Vol. 23, 44-48.

Martin, R. D., Jr., Guinasso, N. L., Jr., L. L. Lee III, J. N. Walpert, L. C. Bender, R. D. Hetland, S. K. Baum, M. K. Howard, 2005. Ten Years of Realtime, Near-Surface Current Observations Supporting Oil Spill Response. In: Proceedings, 2005 International Oil Spill Conference. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC. pp. 541-545.

 2004

Sassen, R., S. Sweet, D. DeFreitas, N. Eaker, H. Roberts, C. Zhang, 2004, Brine vents in the Gulf of Mexico slope: hydrocarbons, carbonate-barite-uranium mineralization, red beds, and life in an extreme environment, GCSSEPM Vol. 24, 258-270.

Sassen, R., H. Roberts, A. Milkov, D. DeFreitas, B. Lanoil, C. Zhang, 2004, Free hydrocarbon gas, gas hydrate, and authigenic minerals in chemosynthetic communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope: relation to microbial processes, Chemical Geology Vol. 205, 195-217.

Mostafa, A.R., A. Barakat, Y. Qian, T. Wade, D. Yuan, 2004, An Overview of Metal Pollution in the Western Harbor of Alexandria Egypt, Soil and Sediment Contamination Vol. 13, 299-311.

Hwang, H., T. Wade, J. Sericano, 2004, Destabilized Iysosomes and elimination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica), Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Vol. 23, 1991-1995.

Formolo, M.J., T. Lyons, C. Zhang, C. Kelley, R. Sassen, J. Horita, D. Cole, 2004, Quantifying the relative roles of methane and oil hydrocarbon oxidation in the formation of authigenic carbon carbonates at gas hydrate sites in the Gulf of Mexico, Chemical Geology Vol. 205, 253-264.

Wade, T.L., S. Sweet, J. Quinn, R. Cairns, J. King, 2004, Tributyltin in environmental samples from the Former Derecktor Shipyard, Coddington Cove, Newport, RI, Environmental Pollution Vol. 129, 315-320.

Gardinali, P.R., J. Sericano, T. Wade, 2004, Uptake and depuration of toxic aromatic halogenated hydrocarbons by the American Oyster (Crassostrea virginica): A field study, Chemosphere Vol. 54, 61-70.

See, J.H., L. Campbell, T. Richardson, J. Pinckney, R. Shen, N. Guinasso Jr., 2005, Combining New Technologies For Determination Of Phytoplankton Community Structure In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, J. Phycology Vol.41, 305-310.

Milkov, A.V., G. Claypool, Y. Lee, M. Torres, W. Borowski, H. Tomaru, R. Sassen, P. Long, and ODP Leg 204 Scientific Party, 2004, Ethane enrichment propane depletion, and other compositional variations in subsurface gases: a new indicator of gas hydrate occurrence in marine sediments, Organic Geochemistry Vol. 35, 1067-1080.

Milkov, A.V., P. Vogt, A. Lein, R. Sassen, G. Cherkachev, 2004, Geological, geochemical, and microbial processes at the hydrate-bearing Hakon Mosby mud volcano: a review, Chemical Geology Vol. 205, 347-356.