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Book Chapters:

Larson, R.A., Brooks, G.R., Schwing, P.T., Diercks, A.R., Holmes, C.W., Chanton, J., Diaz-Asencio, M., Hollander, D.J., 2020, Characterization of the Sedimentation Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Depositional Pulse, Initial Response, and Stabilization (Chap. 14).  In: Murawski S, Ainsworth C, Gilbert S, Hollander D, Paris C, Schlüter M, Wetzel D, editors. 2020. Deep Oil Spills: Facts, Fate, and Effects. Springer International Publishing. pp 235-252, DOI 978-3-030-11605-7_14.

Brooks G.R., Larson R.A., Schwing P.T., Diercks A.R., Armenteros-Almanza M., Diaz-Asencio M., Martinez-Suarez A., Sánchez-Cabeza J.A., Ruiz-Fernandez A.C., Herguera Garcia J.C., Perez-Bernal L.H., Hollander D.J., 2020 Gulf of Mexico (GoM) bottom sediments and depositional processes: A baseline for future oil spills (Chap. 5).  In: Murawski S, Ainsworth C, Gilbert S, Hollander D, Paris C, Schlüter M, Wetzel D, editors. 2020. Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills: Fighting the Next War. Springer International Publishing, pp 75-95. DOI 978-3-030-12963-7_5.

Wade, T. L., S.T. Sweet, J.L. Sericano, N.L. Guinasso, Jr., A.-R. Diercks, R.C. Highsmith, V.L. Asper, D. Joung, A.M. Shiller, S.B. Joye, S.E. Lohrenz; Analyses of Water Samples from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Documentation of the Sub-Surface Plume. In: Liu, Y., A. MacFadyen, Z.-G. Ji, and R. H. Weisberg (Eds.) (2011), Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 195, 271 pp., AGU, Washington, D. C. DOI:10.1029/GM195.

Kempe, S.; A.-R. Diercks; A. Prange; G. Liebezeit. (1991), Geochemical and Structural Aspects of the Pycnocline in the Black Sea (R/V KNORR 134-8 Leg 1, 1988). In: Black Sea Oceanography (eds. J.D. Murray, E. Izdar), NATO ASI Series C:  Mathematical and Physical Sciences - Vol. 351, 89-110.

International Journals:

Brooks, G.R., Larson, R.A., Schwing, P.T., Romero, I.C., Bosman, S.H., Chanton, J.C., Diercks, A.R. (2025) Potential for Redistribution of DwH-Impacted Bottom Sediments to Down-Slope Depocenters: Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Anthropocene. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2025.100459

Stanic, S., Wiggert, J., Bernard, L., McKenna, J., Sunkara, V., Braud, J., Diercks, A.-R. (2024). Coastal CUBEnet: An Integrated Observation and Modeling System for Sustainable Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Areas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1400511/abstract

Schwing, P., Chanton, J. P., Bosman, S., Brooks, G., Rebekka, L., Romero, I., Diercks, A.-R. (2023). Organic carbon and planktic foraminifera radiocarbon derived Holocene sediment accumulation rates in the northern slopes of the Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part I;  Oceanographic Research Papers, 193, 103959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103959 

Diercks, A.-R., Romero, I., Larson, R., Schwing, P., Harris, A., Bosman, S., Chanton, J., Brooks, G. (2021). Resuspension, Redistribution and Deposition of oil-residues to offshore Depocenters after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Frontiers Vol 8;  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.630183 

Romero, I., Chanton, J., Brooks, G., Bosman, S., Larson, R., Harris, A., Schwing, P., Diercks, A.-R. Molecular markers of biogenic and oil-derived hydrocarbons in deep-sea sediments following the Deepwater Horizon spill. Frontiers Vol 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.637970

Johansen, C., Macelloni, L., Natter, M., Silva, M., Woosley, M., Woolsey, A., Diercks, A.R., Hill, J., Viso, R., Marty, E., Lobodin, V.V., Shedd, W., Joye, S.B., MacDonald, I.R., 2020. Hydrocarbon migration pathway and methane budget for a Gulf of Mexico natural seep site: Green Canyon 600. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 545, 116411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116411

Diercks, A.-R., K. Ziervogel, R. Sibert, S. Joye, V. Asper, J.P. Montoya. Vertical marine snow distribution in the stratified, hypersaline, and anoxic Orca Basin (Gulf of Mexico). 2019 Elem Sci Anth, 7(1), p.10. http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.348.

Diercks, A.-R., L. Macelloni, M. D’Emidio, S. Locker, A. Woolsey, M. Woolsey. High-Resolution seismo-acoustic characterization of Green Canyon 600, a perennial Hydrocarbon Seep in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Geophys. Res. 2018. http://doi-org.lynx.lib.usm.edu/10.1007/s11001-018-9374-3.

Chanton, J.P., S.L.C. Giering, S.H. Bosman, K. L. Rogers, J. Sweet, V.L. Asper, A.-R. Diercks and U. Passow. Isotopic composition of sinking particles: Oil effects, recovery and baselines in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010–2015. Elem Sci Anth, 2018; 6:43. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.298

Diercks, A.-R., C. Dike, V.L. Asper, S.F. DiMarco, J.P. Chanton, U. Passow. Scales of seafloor sediment resuspension in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Elem Sci Anth. 2018; 6(1):32. http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.285

Giering, S.L.C., B. Yan, J. Sweet, V. Asper, A.-R. Diercks, J. Chanton, M. Pitiranggon, U. Passow. The ecosystem baseline for particle flux in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Elem Sci Anth. 2018; 6(1):6. http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.264.

Romero I.C., G. Toro-Farmer, A.-R. Diercks, P. Schwing, F. Muller-Karger, S. Murawski, D.J. Hollander. (2017). Large-scale deposition of weathered oil in the Gulf of Mexico following a deep-water oil spill. Environmental Pollution 228:179-189.

Yan, B., U. Passow, J.P. Chanton, E.-M. Nöthig, V. Asper, J. Sweet, M. Pitiranggon, A.-R. Diercks, D. Pak; Sustained deposition of contaminants from the Deepwater Horizon spill (2016). PNAS, June 14, 2016, vol. 113, no. 24E3332-E3340.  10.1073/pnas.1513156113.

Conti, A.; M. D’Emidio, L. Macelloni, C. Lutken, V. Asper, M. Woolsey, R. Jarnagin, A.-R. Diercks, and R.C. Highsmith (2016). Characterization of natural seepage features at ECOGIG OC26 site. Deep-Sea Res. II, Vol 129: 53-65. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.11.011.

Ziervogel K., C. Dike, V. Asper,J. Montoya, J. Battles, N. D'souza, U. Passow, A.-R. Diercks, Esch M., Joye S., Dewald C., Arnosti C. (2015). Enhanced particle fluxes and heterotrophic bacterial activities in Gulf of Mexico bottom waters following storm-induced sediment resuspension. Deep-Sea Res. II, Vol. 129:77-88. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.06.017i.

Rona, R.; V. Guida, M. Scranton, D. Gong, L. Macelloni, M. Pierdomenico, A.-R. Diercks, V. Asper, S. Haag (2015). Hudson Submarine Canyon Head Offshore New York and New Jersey: A Physical and Geochemical Investigation. Deep-Sea Res.II. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.07.019.

Pierdomenico, M.; V.G. Guida; L. Macelloni; F.L. Chiocci; P.A. Rona; M.I. Scranton; V. Asper; A.-R. Diercks. (2015). Sedimentary facies, geomorphic features and habitat distribution at the Hudson Canyon head from AUV multibeam data. Deep-Sea Res. II. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.04.016.

Chanton, J.; T.  Zhao, B. Rosenheim, S. Joye, S. Bosman, C. Brunner, K. Yeager, A.-R. Diercks, D. Hollander (2014).  Using natural abundance radiocarbon to trace the flux of petrocarbon to the seafloor following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Environ. Sci. Technol. 10.1021/es5046524.

Crespo-Medina, M., C.D. Meile, K.S. Hunter, A.-R. Diercks, V. Asper, J.P. Chanton, V.J.  Orphan, P.L. Tavormina, L.M. Nigro, J.J. Battles, A.M Shiller, D.J. Joung, R.M.W. Amon, A.-L. Bracco, J.P. Montoya, T. Villareal, M. Wood, and S.B. Joye (2014). The rise and fall of methanotrophy following a deep-water oil-well blowout. Nature Geoscience. 10.1038/ngeo2156.

Passow, U.; K. Ziervogel, V.L. Asper and A.-R. Diercks. (2012). Marine snow formation in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Environ. Res. Lett. 7, 035301. 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/035301.

Diercks, A.-R., R. C. Highsmith, V. L. Asper, D. Joung, Z. Zhou, L. Guo, A. M. Shiller, S. B. Joye, A. P. Teske, N. L. Guinasso Jr., T. L. Wade, and S. E. Lohrenz (2010). Characterization of subsurface polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the Deepwater Horizon site; Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L20602. 10.1029/2010GL045046.

Diercks, A.-R.; V.L. Asper. (1997). In situ Settling Speeds of Marine Snow Aggregates below the Mixed Layer: Black Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 44(3), 385-398.

Asper, V.L.; A.-R. Diercks; M.D. Tuel. (1995). Carbon and Total Mass Flux in the Ross Sea Polynya: November-December, 1994, Antarctic Journal of the United States 29(1).

Asper, V.L., A.-R. Diercks, and D.M. Karl (1993). The first profiles of Marine Snow Abundance in the Gerlache Strait Region of Antarctica. Antarctic Journal of the United States 28(5) pp 223-225. Palmer LTER Contribution #0025.

Kempe, S.; G. Liebezeit; A.-R. Diercks; V. Asper. (1990). Water balance in the Black Sea. Nature 346, 419.