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 2019
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0911, WB-1114 and WB-1125 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2011-02-20 to 2011-09-27, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-2010-08, WB-1109 and WB-1110 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2010-08-11 to 2010-12-09, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0813 and WB-1405 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2013-08-16 to 2013-09-27, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0814 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2014-08-14 to 2014-08-28, Gregg Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0717 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-07-22 to 2017-07-28, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka Larson
Bulk density and porewater data collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0816 and field expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-08-05 to 2016-09-09, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Bulk density/porewater data from sediment cores collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0717 and WB-1217 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-07-19 to 2017-12-05, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Bulk density/porewater data from sediment cores collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0812 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2012-08-14 to 2012-08-16, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0717 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-07-22 to 2017-07-28, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Sediment texture and composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0816 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-09-08 to 2016-09-09, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0816 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-08-14 to 2016-09-09, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Bulk density and porewater data collected onboard R/V Weatherbird II cruises WB-0813 and WB-1405 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2013-08-15 to 2013-09-27, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Bulk Density/Porewater of sediment cores collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0517 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-05-11 to 2017-05-23, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Sediment texture & composition data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0517 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-05-11 to 2017-05-23, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Justo Sierra cruise JS-0815 in the southern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-07-31 to 2015-08-08, Gregg R. Brooks and Rebekka A. Larson
Short-lived radioisotope (SLRad) data collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB-0517 in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-05-11 to 2017-05-23, Gregg R. Brooks, Rebekka A. Larson, and Patrick Schwing
Age, growth, and condition of invasive lionfish in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2013-03-30 to 2017-10-30, Kristen Dahl and William Patterson
Gut content data from reef fishes sampled at natural reefs sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2010-11-09 to 2017-11-02, Miaya Glabach
Stable isotope data from reef fish collected at natural reefs sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-30 to 2015-11-03, Miaya Glabach
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) data from reef fish collected at natural reefs sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-30 to 2017-11-02, Miaya Glabach and Isabel Romero
Trace and minor element composition in coastal marine sediments collected aboard R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB1731 in the northwestern margin of Cuba from 2017-05-11 to 2017-05-23, D. W. Hastings, L. M. Fariss, R. A. Larson, K. A. Quinn, P. T. Schwing, and D. J. Hollander
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) echolocation clicks recorded at three sites in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-05-16 to 2017-07-18, John A. Hildebrand
Dataset for: Assessing Seasonality and Density From Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Signals Presumed to be From Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales in the Gulf of Mexico, John Hildebrand and Kait Frasier
