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 2018
Viscosity of Louisiana Sweet Crude oil at 35 degrees Celsius at 7 different pressures, Michael Schluter and Simeon Pesch
Short-lived radioisotope (excess Pb210) measurements from sediment cores collected throughout the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-11-07 to 2017-07-20, Patrick Schwing and David Hollander
Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from sediment cores collected on multiple cruises in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-11-18 to 2017-05-22, Patrick Schwing and David J. Hollander
Gulf-wide seafloor surface benthic foraminifera stable isotopes from sediment cores collected on multiple cruises from 2010-06-13 to 2017-07-19, Patrick Schwing and David J. Hollander
Wageningen aquaria/microcosm experiments, benthic foraminifera assemblage and stable isotope measurements, Patrick Schwing and David J. Hollander
RNA-seq transcriptome characterization of liver, gonad, and head kidney from control and intraperitoneal oil-injected sub-adult male red drum, Tracy Sherwood and Dana Wetzel
Sediment-oil agglomerates in situ incubation in Pensacola Beach sand, Boryoung Shin, Markus Huettel, Max Kolton, and Joel Kostka
Anaerobic degradation of hexadecane and phenanthrene coupled to sulfate reduction in seafloor sediments from the northern Gulf of Mexico, Boryoung Shin, Karsten Zengler, Kuk-Jeong Chin, and Will A Overholt Joel E Kostka
Nearfield Plume Hindcast of the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche from June 1979 to March 1980 using the Texas A&M Oilspill Calculator, Scott Socolofsky and Jonas Gros
Western Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper sample collection data, 2017, Tara Topping
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon results from sub-adult Red drum diet exposure to Deepwater Horizon crude oil contaminated feed over 14 days, Dana Wetzel, Tracy Sherwood, Rebecca Medvecky, and Christelle Miller
Red drum diet exposure to Deepwater Horizon crude oil contaminated feed: Lipid Composition, DL Wetzel, TA Sherwood, CA Miller, and RL Medvecky
Submissions from 2017
Ecopath with Ecosim model of the West Florida Shelf representing 1980 for harmful algal bloom simulations, Cameron Ainsworth and Alisha Gray
Temporal analysis of NRDA meiofauna data, northern Gulf of Mexico, 2010, 2011, and 2014, Jeffrey Baguley
Microbial degradation of crude oil at high pressure, Paul Bubenheim and Martina Schedler
Habitat-specific density and diet of invasive lionfish in the northern Gulf of Mexico, January 2010-December 2014, Kristen Dahl
Macrofauna Abundance in the Southern Gulf of Mexico, 2015, Escobar-Briones Elva
Delphinids – Individual detections of dolphin echolocation clicks in the Gulf of Mexico, 2013, John Hildebrand
Delphinids – Binned detections of dolphin echolocation clicks in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010-2012, John Hildebrand and Kait Frasier
Landsat based Sargassum coverage in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2010, Chuanmin Hu and Lian Feng
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) surface oil products for the Gulf of Mexico, April - July 2010, Chuanmin Hu and Lian Feng
Remote Sensing Estimation of Surface Oil Volume During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico: Scaling up AVIRIS Observation with MODIS Measurements, Chuanmin Hu and Lian Feng
