Marine phytoplankton responses to oil and dispersant exposures: Knowledge gained since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

This research was supported by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GOMRI) funded consortia research entitled ADDOMEx (Aggregation and Degradation of Dispersants and Oil by Microbial Exopolymers) and ADDOMEx-2 (Quigg, Kamalanathan), DROPPS (Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies) (Buskey, Erdner), DROPPS-2 (Buskey, Erdner, Cosgrove) and DROPPS-3 (Buskey, Cosgrove), the Coastal Waters Consortium (Parsons), and the Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (Parsons). KD was supported by the University of South Florida Division of Sponsored Research, Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO)/BP, and the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative through its consortia: Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems I, II, III (C-IMAGE). Funding for the May-June 2010 SIPPER camera image collections was provided by NOAA. March 2010 data were published in Chakraborty and Lohrenz, 2015) SB and KO thank Dr. Nancy Rabalais and RV Pelican captain and crew for allowing them to collect water samples for harmful algal species cell counts and domoic acid analysis. Funding for the cruise was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research grant number NA06NPS4780197 to N.N. Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON). SC and EJB thank Maud Moison for the contribution of studies of HAB responses to oil conducted as part of DROPPS II. Data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at http ://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data (doi's: https://doi.org/10.7266/N7PK0D3S; https://doi.org/10.7266/4NJG5PEH; https://doi.org/10.7266/N7CC0XN9, https://doi.org/10.7266/N7QR4V28, htt ps://doi.org/10.7266/N7GT5K4R, https://doi.org/10.7266/N7M04 3B7, https://doi.org/10.7266/ZBJY1NQM, https://doi.org/10.7266/N7NP22G2, https://doi.org/10.7266/1FAZ3RN3, https://doi.org/10.7266/KE93JJRS, https://doi.org/10.7266/W5860EJS, https://doi.org/10.7266/VN3B5A0P).We thank the reviewers and editor whose comments improved the final manuscript. Funding for open access for this publication was provided by the Shell Endowed Chair in Oceanography/Wetland Studies of the Louisiana State University Foundation, Award BG003399, 169-01-6111.