The Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Gulf Ecosystems (C-IMAGE) was a research consortium of 19 U.S. and international partners focused on effects of oil spills on marine environments. The C-IMAGE consortium completed an unprecedented study of the Deepwater Horizon blowout of 2010 through funding from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). The overarching objective of C-IMAGE was to advance understanding of marine blowouts as response agencies and production companies were underprepared to deal with the unique challenges of Deepwater Horizon. Data is made freely available to ensure society is better prepared to mitigate any future occurrences.
Projects from C-IMAGE I included ecosystem modeling based on biological, chemical, and physical data sets, marine resource assessments of ichthyoplankton, fish, and marine mammals, oil and dispersant toxicology, simulating high-pressure environments and their effects on fluids, and sediment analysis of oil-affected areas of the sea floor.
C-IMAGE II focused on Six Tasks covering a range of research areas including deep-ocean environments, sediment deposition, and plankton and fish species toxicity.
C-IMAGE III focused on GoMRI Research Themes 2 and 3: chemical evolution and biological degradation of the petroleum/dispersant systems and subsequent interaction with coastal, open-ocean, and deep-water ecosystems (Theme 2); and environmental effects of the petroleum/dispersant system on the sea floor, water column, coastal waters, beach sediments, wetlands, marshes, and organisms; and the science of ecosystem recovery (Theme 3).
The University of South Florida served as the host institution for C-IMAGE under the direction of Principle Investigator Dr. Steven Murawski, Assistant Director Sherryl Gilbert and Chief Science Officer Dr. David Hollander. The data in this repository contains the work of USF researchers. To view data from across GRIIDC’s research groups, please visit GRIIDC’s dataset monitoring webpage.
Submissions from 2017
Northern Gulf of Mexico Pb-210 Inventories, 2010-2013, Patrick Schwing
Weatherbird II Sediment Cruise Sample Data 2015, Patrick Schwing
Cruises R/V Endeavor (EN505) and R/V Weatherbird II (WB1205) Gulf of Mexico Water Chemistry (Spring 2012), Patrick Schwing and Jeff Chanton
Gulf of Mexico Benthic and Planktic Foraminifera Carbon Isotopes, 2015, Patrick Schwing and Jeff Chanton
Weatherbird II Sediment Cruise Sample Data (2016), Patrick Schwing and Steven Murawski
Bent Plume Model source code for the Texas A&M Oilspill Calculator (TAMOC), Scott A. Socolofsky and Anusha Dissanayake
Nearfield Plume Hindcast of the Deepwater Horizon blowout from April 2010 to July 2010 using the Texas A&M Oilspill Calculator: Bent Plume Model, Scott A. Socolofsky and Anusha Dissanayake
Ixtoc-I oil spill footprints derived from Coastal Zone Color Scanner and Landsat/MSS imagery, Shaojie Sun
Sun glint critical angle oil detection, Shaojie Sun
Western Gulf of Mexico Vertical Longline data from 2016, Tara Topping
Marine snow enhances the adverse effects of oil on benthic invertebrates, Justine S. van Eenennaam, Shokouh Rahsepar, Jagos R. Radovic, Thomas B.P. Oldenburg, Jessica Wonink, Alette A.M. Langenhoff, Albertinka J. Murk, and Edwin M. Foekema
Distribution and characteristics of oil droplets from the DWH spill: a simulation using the Connectivity Modeling System coupled nearfield-farfield models, Ana Vaz and Claire Paris
Molecular characterization of benthic foraminifera communities from the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico shelf and slope following the Deepwater Horizon event, 2012-2013, Jeffrey Wade and Joseph A. Moss
Dataset for: Sun glint requirement for the remote detection of surface oil films, Mengqiu Wang
Oil extraction Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Imagery, Western Gulf of Mexico 2005-2013, Mengqiu Wang
Macrobenthic infauna of deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2012-2013, Travis Washburn, Amanda Demopoulos, and Mandy Joye
Significant differential gene expression in red drum intraperitoneal injected with Louisiana crude oil, Dana Wetzel
Submissions from 2016
Marginal beta probability density functions for predator-prey diet linkages for the Gulf of Mexico fitted using maximum likelihood method, April 2013-May 2015, Cameron Ainsworth
Predator-prey diet linkages with error range for the Gulf of Mexico fitted using maximum likelihood method, April 2013- May 2015, Cameron Ainsworth
Predator-prey diet linkages with error range for the Gulf of Mexico fitted using maximum likelihood method, Cameron H. Ainsworth
Toxicity and Mutagenicity of the Gulf of Mexico Waters during and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, July 2010 to August 2012, Jonelle Basso
Reef Fish Densities at Artificial Reef Sites Estimated with ROV Video Sampling in the Northern Gulf of Mexico from spring 2009 to summer 2015, Kristen Dahl, William Patterson, and Joseph Tarnecki
CTD and other environmental data for the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and west Florida shelf: June 2012 – August 2014, Kendra L. Daly
Discrete chlorophyll data for the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and west Florida shelf: June 2012 – August 2014, Kendra L. Daly
