Abstract
Six cohesive sand patty sediments were collected on a West Florida Shelf beach in St. Petersburg Florida, January, 2013. These were analyzed for presence of PAH compounds and the composition compared to measurements from known Deepwater Horizon contaminated beach sediments. Known contaminated samples were collected from Santa Rosa Florida in July 2010 and January 2011, and from Gulf Shores Alabama in December 2012. The same samples were also analyzed for biological activity and the presence of Corexit dispersant (DOSS). This dataset includes concentration data for PAHs and DOSS in these samples. The biological activity in the water accommodated fraction of samples was measured through Microtox toxicity and Microscreen mutagenicity. The data provided for these analyses includes luminescence, and percent change and inhibition compared to controls. DOSS concentration analysis, microtox and microscreen assay data for control sand, loose beach sand collected in proximity to sand patty samples, is also provided in this dataset. Phenol controls were employed in Microtox analysis, and luminescence data is provided for controls.
Purpose
To determine if Deepwater Horizon oil reached the beaches of the West Florida Shelf
Keywords
PAH, DOSS, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, microtox, toxicity, beach, sediment, microscreen, mutagenicity, DWH oil spill
UDI
R1.x135.119:0007
Date
3-18-2016 12:00 AM
Point of Contact
McDaniel, Lauren
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
140 7th Ave South
St. Petersburg , FL 33701
USA
lmcdanie@mail.usf.edu
Funding Source
RFP-I
Start of Data Collection
7-6-2010
End of Data Collection
7-9-2013
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7266/N74M92J8
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 License.
Scholar Commons Citation
McDaniel, Lauren D., "West Florida Shelf beach sediment PAH and dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate concentrations, microtox luminescence and microscreen mutagenicity data, 2010 to 2013" (2016). C-IMAGE data. 4.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cimage_data/4
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Comments
Data and metadata is made available by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) through a CC0 license in compliance with the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). The original dataset landing pages may be accessed at GRIIDC’s dataset monitoring webpage.
Data users are encouraged to contact the originating investigator prior to data use and provide appropriate credit.