2023
Bravo, ME, Brandt MI, van der Grient JMA, Dahlgren TG, Esquete P, Gollner S, Jones DOB, Levin LA, McClain CR, Narayanaswamy BE, Sutton T, Victorero T, Cordes EE. (2023) “Insights from the Management of Offshore Energy Resources: Toward an Ecosystem-Services Based Management Approach for Deep-Ocean Industries.” Frontiers in Marine Science 9. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.994632
2022
2021
The ‘Eye of Fire’ in the Gulf and a path forward away from fossil fuels – opinion piece by Erik Cordes in The Hill
2020
Georgian SE, Saunders M, Fisher CR, Kramer K, Shedd W, Roberts HH, Lewis C, Cordes EE. (2020) Habitat suitability modeling to predict the spatial distribution of cold-water coral communities affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Journal of Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13844
Jones DOB, Ardron JA, Colaço A, Durden JM (2020) Environmental considerations for impact and preservation reference zones for deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining. Marine Policy 118. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.10.025
Sutton TT, Frank TM, Romero IC, Judkins H (2020) Chapter 24: As Gulf oil extraction goes deeper, who is at risk? Community structure, distribution, and connectivity of the deep-pelagic fauna. In: Murawski, S.A., Ainsworth C., Gilbert, S., Hollander, D., Paris, C.B., Schlüter, M. and Wetzel, D. (Eds.) Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills – Fighting the Next War. Springer.
Weinnig AM, Hallaj A*, Gomez CE, Cordes EE. (2020) Assessing the impact of multiple stressors on a cold-water coral: the influence of temperature and pH on the phenotypic response of Lophelia pertusa to oil and dispersant exposure. Scientific Reports. 10: 1768. DOI: 10.1038/ s41598-020-58556-9
2019
Drazen J, Smith C, Gjerde K, Au W, Black J, Carter G, Clark M, Durden J, Dutrieux P, Goetze E, Haddock S, Hatta M, Hauton C, Hill P, Koslow J, Leitner A, Measures C, Pacini A, Parrish F, Peacock T, Perelman J, Sutton T, Taymans C, Tunnicliffe V, Watling L, Yamamoto H, Young E, Ziegler A (2019) Report of the workshop Evaluating the nature of midwater mining plumes and their potential effects on midwater ecosystems. Research Ideas and Outcomes 5: e33527. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.5.e33527
Gates, AR, Horton, T, Serpell-Stevens, A, Chandler, C, Grange, LJ, Robert, K, Bevan, A, Jones, DOB (2019) Ecological Role of an Offshore Industry Artificial Structure. Frontiers in Marine Science 6. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00675
Levin LA, Bett BJ, Gates AR, Heimbach P, Howe BM, Janssen F, McCurdy A, Ruhl HA, Snelgrove P, Stocks KI, Bailey D, Baumann-Pickering S, Beaverson C, Benfield MC, Booth DJ, Carreiro-Silva M, Colaço A, Eblé MC, Fowler AM, Gjerde KM, Jones DOB, Katsumata K, Kelley D, Le Bris N, Leonardi AP, Lejzerowicz F, Macreadie PI, McLean D, Meitz F, Morato T, Netburn A, Pawlowski J, Smith CR, Sun S, Uchida H, Vardaro MF, Venkatesan R, Weller RA (2019) Global Observing Needs in the Deep Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 6. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00241
Milligan RJ, Bernard AM, Boswell KM, Bracken-Grissom HD, D’Elia MA, DeRada S, Easson CG, English D, Eytan RI, Finnegan KA, Hu C, Lembke C, Lopez JV, Penta B, Richards TT, Romero IC, Shivji M, Timm L, Warren JD, Weber M, Wells RJD, Sutton TT (2019) The application of novel research technologies by the Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico (DEEPEND) Consortium. Marine Technology Society Journal. 52(6): 81-86.
2018
Bredariol, TO, and d’Avignon, AL (2018). Institutions and environmental governance: The case of environmental permitting for offshore oil and gas projects. Ambiente e Sociedade 21. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc0090r1vu18l1ao
Cordes EE, Levin LA. (2018) Exploration before exploitation (editorial). Science 359: 719.
DeLeo DM, Lengyel SD, Quattrini AM, Kulathinal RJ, Cordes EE. (2018) Gene expression profiling reveals deep-sea coral response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mol Ecol 27: 4066-4077. doi: 10.1111/mec.14847
Fowler AM, Jørgensen A-M, Svendsen JC, Macreadie PI, Jones DOB, Boon AR, Booth DJ, Brabant R, Callahan E, Claisse JT, Dahlgren TG, Degraer S, Dokken QR, Gill AB, Johns DG, Leewis RJ, Lindeboom HJ, Linden O, May R, Murk AJ, Ottersen G, Schroeder DM, Shastri SM, Teilmann J, Todd V, Van Hoey G, Vanaverbeke J, Coolen JWP (2018) Environmental benefits of leaving offshore infrastructure in the ocean. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16:571-578. DOI: 10.1002/fee.1827
Macreadie PI, McLean DL, Thomson PG, Partridge JC, Jones DOB, Gates AR, Benfield MC, Collin SP, Booth DJ, Smith LL, Techera E, Skropeta D, Horton T, Pattiaratchi C, Bond T, Fowler AM (2018) Eyes in the sea: Unlocking the mysteries of the ocean using industrial, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Science of the Total Environment 634:1077-1091. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.049
Romero IC, Sutton TT, Carr B, Quintana-Rizzo E, Ross SW, Hollander DJ, Torres JJ (2018) Decadal Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Mesopelagic Fishes from the Gulf of Mexico Reveals Exposure to Oil-Derived Sources. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(19): 10985-10996.
Vad J, Kazanidis G, Henry L-A, Jones DOB, Tendal OS, Christiansen S, Henry TB, Roberts JM (2018) Potential impacts of offshore oil and gas activities on deep-sea sponges and the habitats they form. Advances in Marine Biology. 79:33-60. DOI: 10.1016/bs.amb.2018.01.001
Woodall LC, Andradi-Brown DA, Brierley AS, Clark MR, Connelly D, Hall RA, Howell KL, Huvenne VAI, Linse K, Ross RE, Snelgrove P, Stefanoudis PV, Sutton TT, Taylor M, Thornton TF, Rogers AD (2018) A multidisciplinary approach for generating globally consistent data on mesophotic, deep-pelagic, and bathyal biological communities. Oceanography 31(3): https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.301.
2017
Almada G, Bernardino, AF (2017). Conservation of deep-sea ecosystems within offshore oil fields on the Brazilian margin, SW Atlantic. Biol. Cons. 206: 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.12.026
Amon DJ, Gobin J, Van Dover CL, Levin LA, Marsh L and Raineault NA (2017) Characterization of Methane-Seep Communities in a Deep-Sea Area Designated for Oil and Natural Gas Exploitation Off Trinidad and Tobago. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:342. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00342
Bernardino AF, Sumida PYG (2017) Deep risks from offshore development. Science 358 (6361): 312. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq0779.
Burdett EC, Fine C, Sutton TT, Cook AB, Frank TM (2017) Geographic and depth distributions, ontogeny, and reproductive seasonality decapod shrimps (Caridea: Oplophoridae) from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 93(3): 743-767. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2016.1083.
Gates AR, Benfield MC, Booth DJ, Fowler AM, Skropeta D, Jones DOB (2017) Deep-sea observations at hydrocarbon drilling locations: Contributions from the SERPENT Project after 120 field visits. -sea Research II. 137:463-479. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.07.011
Reygondeau G, Guidi L, Beaugrand G, Henson SA, Koubbi P, MacKenzie BR, Sutton TT, Fiorini M, Maury O (2017) Global biogeochemical provinces of the mesopelagic zone. Journal of Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13149.
Sutton TT, Clark MR, Dunn DC, Halpin PN, Rogers AD, Guinotte J, Bograd SJ, Angel MV, Perez JAA, Wishner K, Haedrich RL, Lindsay DJ, Drazen JC, Vereshchaka A, Piatkowski U, Morato T, Błachowiak-Samołyk T, Robison BH, Gjerde KM, Pierrot-Bults A, Bernal P, Reygondeau G, Heino M (2017) A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone. Deep Sea Research I 126: 85-102.
2016
Cordes EE, Auscavitch S, Baums IB, Fisher CR, Girard F, Gomez CLS, McClain-Counts J, Mendlovitz HP, Saunders M, Smith S, Vohsen S, Weinheimer A. (2016) ECOGIG: Oil spill effects on deep-sea corals through the lenses of natural hydrocarbon seeps and long time series. Oceanography 29: 28-29.
Cordes EE, Jones DOB, Schlacher TA, Amon DJ, Bernardino AF, Brooke S, Carney R, DeLeo DM, Dunlop KM, Escobar E, Gates AR, Génio L, Gobin J, Henry L-A, Herrera S, Hoyt S, Joye S, Kark S, Mestre NC, Metaxas A, Pfeifer S, Sink K, Sweetman AK, Witte U. (2016) Environmental impacts of the deep-water oil and gas industry: a review to guide management strategies. Front Environ Sci 4: 58. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00058
DeLeo DM, Ruiz-Ramos D, Baums IB, Cordes EE. (2016) Response of deep-water corals to oil and chemical dispersant exposure. Deep-Sea Res II 129: 137-147. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.028
Demopoulos AWJ, Bourque JR, Cordes EE, Stamler KM. (2016) Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea coral sediment communities. MEPS 561: 51-68. doi:10.3354/meps11905
Fisher CR, Montagna PA, Sutton TT (2016) How did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact deep-sea ecosystems? Oceanography 29(3):182–195.
Joye SB, Bracco A, Ozgokmen T, Chanton JP, Grosell M, MacDonald IR, Cordes EE, Montoya JP, Passow U. (2016) The Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem, six years after the Macondo Oil Well Blowout. Deep-Sea Res II 129: 4-19. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.04.018
Main CE, Yool A, Holliday NP, Popova EE, Jones DOB, Ruhl HA (2016) Simulating pathways of subsurface oil in the Faroe–Shetland Channel using an ocean general circulation model. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 114(1):315–326. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.09.041
2015
2014
Cordes EE, Berlet SP, Cardman Z, Dannenberg R, Demopoulos AWJ, Georgian SE, King C, McKean DL, Young DM. (2014) Exploring deep-sea coral communities and the effects of oil and gas inputs to the Gulf of Mexico. Oceanography 27: 28-29. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2014.supplement.01
Doughty CL, Quattrini AM, Cordes EE. (2014) Insights into the population dynamics of the deep-sea coral genus Paramuricea in the Gulf of Mexico. Deep-Sea Res II 99: 71-82. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.023
Fisher CR, Demopoulos AWJ, Cordes EE, Baums IB, White HK, Bourque JR. (2014) Coral communities as indicators of ecosystem-level impacts resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Bioscience. 64: 796-807. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biu129
Fisher CR, Hsing P-Y, Kaiser C, Yoerger D, Roberts HH, Shedd W, Cordes EE, Shank TS, Berlet SP, Saunders M, Larcom EA, Brooks J. (2014) Footprint of Deepwater Horizon blowout impact to deep-water coral communities. PNAS. 111: 11744-11749. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1403492111
2013
2012
White HK, Hsing PY, Cho W, Shank TM, Cordes EE, Quattrini AM, Nelson RK, Camilli R, Demopoulos A, German CR, Brooks JM, Roberts HH, Shedd W, Reddy CM, Fisher CR. (2012) Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep-water coral community in the Gulf of Mexico. PNAS. 109: 20303-20308. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1118029109.
White HK, Hsing PY, Cho W, Shank TM, Cordes EE, Quattrini AM, Nelson RK, Camilli R, Demopoulos A, German CR, Brooks JM, Roberts HH, Shedd W, Reddy CM, Fisher CR. (2012) Reply to Boehm and Carragher: Multiple lines of evidence link deep-water coral damage to Deepwater Horizon oil spill. PNAS. 109: E2648. doi:10.1073/pnas.1210413109.