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Backward-in-time probabilistic method applied to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

The irruption of gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon event fed a deep sea bacterial bloom that consumed hydrocarbons in the affected waters, formed a regional oxygen anomaly, and altered the microbiology of the region. In this work we describe the numerical results obtained from the proposed coupled physical-metabolic model to assess the impact of mixing processes on these deep ocean bacterial communities and their capacity for hydrocarbon and oxygen use.

oil spill; dynamic autoinoculation; numerical simulations

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