Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill occurred in a region of the Gulf Mexico (GoM) supporting abundant, diverse and valuable communities fishes fishers. economy northern GoM is inextricably tied to natural resource bases (tourism, fishing, gas, etc.) thus coupling between human ecological systems tight subject both feed-back and, some extent, feed-forward controls. Management actions ...

The Gulf of Maine (GOM) is a highly complex environment and previous studies have suggested the need to account for spatial nonstationarity in species distribution models (SDMs) American lobster ( Homarus americanus ). To explore impacts on distribution, we compared with following three assumptions : (1) large-scale stationary relationships between distributions environmental variables; (2) mes...

Indo-Pacific lionfish ( Pterois volitans and P. miles ) are the first marine teleost to have successfully invaded become established in Western Atlantic Ocean of United States, Gulf Mexico (GoM), Caribbean Sea. were reported Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS), a protected coral reef system northwestern GoM, 2011. Little is understood about life history characteristics this e...

Assessing the impacts of Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DWHOS) on deep-sea fish assemblages Gulf Mexico (GOM) has been hindered by an absence baseline (pre-spill) data concerning population genetic dynamics these fishes. The lanternfishes (Myctophidae) are a speciose, yet understudied, taxonomic group, that comprise significant portion global biomass, making them integral members meso- and bathy-...

The Loop Current (LC) system controls the connectivity between northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region and Straits Florida. evolution LC shedding sequence anticyclonic ring (Eddy Franklin) were crucial for fate hydrocarbons released during Deepwater Horizon (DwH) oil spill in 2010. In a previous study, we identified LC-related eddies southern GoM, named “Cuba anticyclones” (“CubANs”). Here, invest...

Summer rainfall in the southeast Prairie Pothole Region (SEPPR) is an important part of a vital wetland ecosystem that various species use as their habitat. We examine sources and pathways for summer moisture, large-scale features influencing moisture delivery, connections related to using Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model. Analysis HYSPLIT back trajectorie...

This work presents new evidence for conducive conditions the existence of overturning instabilities in mixed layer across a mesoscale anticyclonic Loop Current Eddy (LCE) and surrounding cyclonic eddies Gulf Mexico (GoM). The LCE was intensively sampled using four gliders during 12 months. is characterized by strong anomaly fresh warm water center strain at periphery. Mixed layers prone to are ...

During August of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, Gulf Mexico (GoM) was affected by two subsequent storms, Hurricanes Marco and Laura. entered GoM first (22 August) briefly promoted to a Category 1 storm. Laura followed closely (25 attained 4 status after period rapid intensification. Typically, hurricanes do not form this close together; study aims explain existence both through analysis ai...