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 2020
Reef fish densities (per 1,000 m^3) at natural reefs sites estimated with ROV video sampling in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2012-03-13 to 2014-08-25, Miaya Glabach, William Patterson, and Justin Lewis
Experimental simulation of partitioning behavior of low molecular weight organic species between oil and water throughout the water column following dispersant addition, Aprami Jaggi and Ryan Snowdon
DNA barcoding of fish eggs collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB1731 across the Florida Straits and off of northwestern Cuba from 2017-05-13 to 2017-05-25, Makenzie Kerr, Mya Breitbart, Steven Murawski, Ernst B. Peebles, Maickel Armenteros, Jeremy Browning, Eva-Maria Bønnelycke, Chuanmin Hu, and Yingjun Zhang
MODIS-derived sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Mexico between 2012-01-01 to 2018-12-31, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
MODIS-derived surface chlorophyll-a concentration in the Gulf of Mexico between 2012-01-01 to 2018-12-31, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Effect of elevated pressure on microbial communities from the Gulf of Mexico, Nuttapol Noirungsee and Paul Bubenheim
Matrices of connectivity, community structure, and geographic distance, between six provinces in the Gulf of Mexico, Claire B. Paris and Igal Berenshtein
Daily hindcast of oil concentrations estimates from the far-field modeling of deep water spill scenarios in the east and the west Gulf of Mexico, and a spill occurring during the Fall using the oil application of Connectivity Modeling System (oil-CMS)., Claire B. Paris and Natalie Perlin
Model results from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill simulation using the Connectivity Modeling System adapted for oil modeling (oil-CMS), featuring log-normal size distribution of multi-fraction oil droplets at the initial release time, Natalie Perlin, Claire B. Paris, and Ana C. Vaz
CTD and environmental data collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-1304 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2012-08-14 to 2012-08-19, Erin Pulster and Steve Murawski
Hepatic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentrations in red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) collected aboard multiple research and fishing vessels in the Gulf of Mexico from 2011-07-07 to 2017-07-30, Erin Pulster and Steven Murawski
Hepatobiliary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentrations in gafftopsail catfish (Bagre marinus) collected aboard multiple research and fishing vessels in the Gulf of Mexico from 2015-09-21 to 2017-09-06, Erin Pulster and Steven Murawski
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) concentrations in seven species of snapper collected aboard multiple R/V Weatherbird II cruises in coastal Cuba and the wider Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-16 to 2017-07-19, Erin Pulster and Steven Murawski
Multiple Hydrocarbon data from mangrove forests collected during a coastal survey conducted in the Bay of Campeche, southern Gulf of Mexico from 2016-08-09 to 2016-08-10, Isabel Romero and David Hollander
Experimental investigation of pure ad gas-saturated crude oil density from 277 K to 308 K and from 0.1 MPa to 23 MPa, Michael Schlüter and Simeon Pesch
Experimental investigation of the viscosity of pure and gas-saturated crude oil, n-decane, seawater and deionized water from 268 K to 323 K and from 1 MPa to 16 MPa, Michael Schlüter and Simeon Pesch
Tally of recordings of sound-producing fish in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-07 to 2012-09-29, Ana Sirovic
Impacts of high pressure on hydrocarbon biodegradation, Xiaoxu Sun
Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICR-MS) measurements of seafloor sediments collected aboard multiple cruises in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-26 to 2014-06-28, Damien Weleschuk and Jagos Radovic
CEWAF-exposed Florida pompano fish F1 generation: spawn and hatch, Dana Wetzel
Chemically enhanced water-accommodated fraction (CEWAF) and pathogen exposed Red Snapper: Lipid Class Composition, Dana Wetzel
Gene expression of chemically enhanced water-accommodated fraction (CEWAF) and pathogen exposed Red Snapper, Dana Wetzel
