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ORCID
0000-0003-3848-1690, 0000-0002-2743-3602, 0000-0001-6519-1547, 0000-0001-7017-6835
ResearcherID
G-4080-2013
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
International Journal of Remote Sensing
ISSN
0143-1161
Publication Date
1-19-2020
Abstract
The sea surface microlayer (SML) is the upper 1 mm of the ocean, where Earth’s biogeochemical processes occur between the ocean and atmosphere. It is physicochemically distinct from the water below and highly variable in space and time due to changing physical conditions. Some microorganisms influence the composition of the SML by producing surfactants for biological functions that accumulate on the surface, decrease surface tension, and create slicks. Slicks can be visible to the eye and in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery. This study focuses on surfactant-associated bacteria in the near-surface layer and their role in slick formation where oil is present.
DOI
10.1080/01431161.2019.1708508
Volume
41
Issue
10
First Page
3886
Last Page
3901
Additional Comments
This research was made possible by a grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE) and an Office of Naval Research Award N00014-18-1-2835.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
NSUWorks Citation
Georgia Parks, Cayla W. Dean, John Alexander Kluge, Alexander Soloviev, Mahmood S. Shivji, Aurelien Tartar, Kathryn L. Howe, Susanne Lehner, Egbert Schwarz, Hui Shen, William Perrie, and Paul Schuler. 2020. Analysis of surfactant-associated bacteria in the sea surface microlayer using deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing and synthetic aperture radar .International Journal of Remote Sensing , (10) : 3886 -3901. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1118.
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Comments
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.