Genomic Responses to the Deepwater Horizon event and development of high-throughput biological assays for oil spills
Implementing Organization
University of New Hampshire
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$2,477,880
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Funding Program
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative GoMRI Grant Program
Details
Project Category
Science
Project Actions
Oil System Safety Research
Targeted Resources
Human and/or Institutional Capacity
Project Description
Benthic communities are strongly impacted by oil spills, which render them a valuable tool for assaying and monitoring the impacts of contamination. However, the characterization of these communities has been impractical for large-scale deployment due to the tedious and time-consuming nature of the taxonomy required to accurately describe these communities. This project will leverage recent and dramatic advances in DNA sequencing technology that have transformed the process of rapid, accurate, and cheap assays of community biodiversity and develop a reproducible bioinformatics workflow for the environmental monitoring of oil spills.
Contact
W. Kelley ThomasNone
kelley.thomas@unh.edu
Project Website
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