Ongoing biodegradation of Deepwater Horizon oil in Beach Sands: Insights from tracing petroleum carbon into microbial biomass

Affiliations

• ¹ School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA.
• ² Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME 04544, USA.
• ³ Department of Chemistry, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
• ⁵ School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA. Electronic address: loriz@sc.edu.