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Edward J. Buskey is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions to subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research focuses extensively on topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, oil spill detection and mitigation, marine toxins and detection methods, toxic organic pollutants impact, microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants, and coral and marine ecosystems studies.

Edward J. Buskey has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Science
  • Harmful Algae

The following is a selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Edward J. Buskey:

  • Predator control of marine communities increases with temperature across 115 degrees of latitude, 2022, Science
  • Marine phytoplankton responses to oil and dispersant exposures: Knowledge gained since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Potential effects of bacterial communities on the formation of blooms of the harmful dinoflagellate Prorocentrum after the 2014 Texas City "Y" oil spill (USA), 2020, Harmful Algae
  • De-coupled phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in a simulated oil spill event in mesocosms, 2022, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Exposure methodologies for dissolved individual hydrocarbons, dissolved oil, water oil dispersions, water accommodated fraction and chemically enhanced water accommodated fraction of fresh and weathered oil, 2022, Marine Pollution Bulletin

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors including:

  • Chi Hung Tang
  • Eirik Valseth
  • Clint Dawson
  • J. Emmett Duffy
  • Deana L. Erdner

Best Publications

  • Interactions between zooplankton and crude oil: toxic effects and bioaccumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    Rodrigo Almeda;Zoe Wambaugh;Zoe Wambaugh;Zucheng Wang;Zucheng Wang;Cammie Hyatt

  • Massive outbreaks of Noctiluca scintillans blooms in the Arabian Sea due to spread of hypoxia

    Helga do Rosário Gomes;Joaquim I. Goes;S. G. P. Matondkar;Edward J. Buskey

  • Swimming pattern as an indicator of the roles of copepod sensory systems in the recognition of food

    Edward J Buskey

  • Importance of Phaeocystis blooms in the high-latitude ocean carbon cycle

    Walker O. Smith;Louis A. Codispoti;David M. Nelson;Thomas Manley

  • Escape behavior of planktonic copepods in response to hydrodynamic disturbances: high speed video analysis

    E. J. Buskey;P. H. Lenz;D. K. Hartline

  • First harmful Dinophysis (Dinophyceae, Dinophysiales) bloom in the U.S. is revealed by automated imaging flow cytometry.

    Lisa Campbell;Robert J. Olson;Heidi M. Sosik;Ann Abraham

  • Locomotory patterns of microzooplankton: potential effects on food selectivity of larval fish

    E. J. Buskey;C. Coulter;S. Strom

  • Toxicity of dispersant Corexit 9500A and crude oil to marine microzooplankton.

    Rodrigo Almeda;Cammie Hyatt;Edward J. Buskey

  • Effects of the Texas (USA) 'brown tide' alga on planktonic grazers

    Edward J Buskey;C. J. Hyatt

  • Effects of crude oil exposure on bioaccumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and survival of adult and larval stages of gelatinous zooplankton.

    Rodrigo Almeda;Zoe Wambaugh;Zoe Wambaugh;Chao Chai;Chao Chai;Zucheng Wang;Zucheng Wang

  • Disruption of grazer populations as a contributing factor to the initiation of the Texas brown tide algal bloom

    Edward J. Buskey;Paul A. Montagna;Anthony F. Amos;Terry E. Whitledge

  • Use of the FlowCAM for semi-automated recognition and enumeration of red tide cells (Karenia brevis) in natural plankton samples

    Edward J. Buskey;Cammie J. Hyatt

  • Behavioral components of feeding selectivity of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Protoperidinium pellucidum

    Edward J Buskey

  • The decline and recovery of a persistent Texas brown tide algal bloom in the Laguna Madre (Texas, USA)

    Edward J. Buskey;Hongbin Liu;Christopher Collumb;Jose Guilherme F. Bersano

  • Feeding, growth, and behavior of the thecate heterotrophic dinoflagellate Oblea rotunda

    Suzanne L. Strom;Edward J. Buskey

  • Ingestion and sublethal effects of physically and chemically dispersed crude oil on marine planktonic copepods

    Rodrigo Almeda;Sarah Baca;Sarah Baca;Cammie Hyatt;Edward J. Buskey

  • Annual pattern of micro- and mesozooplankton abundance and biomass in a subtropical estuary

    Edward J. Buskey

  • The role of hypersalinity in the persistence of the Texas ‘brown tide’ in the Laguna Madre

    Edward J. Buskey;Brian Wysor;Cammie Hyatt

  • Hypersalinity enhances the production of extracellular polymeric substance (eps) in the texas brown tide alga, aureoumbra lagunensis (PELAGOPHYCEAE)

    Hongbin Liu;Edward J. Buskey

  • Effects of copper and cadmium on growth, swimming and predator avoidance in Eurytemora affinis (Copepoda)

    B. K. Sullivan;E. Buskey;D. C. Miller;P. J. Ritacco

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracy A. Villareal
Tracy A. Villareal The University of Texas at Austin
Hongbin Liu
Hongbin Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
J. Rudi Strickler
J. Rudi Strickler University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Zhanfei Liu
Zhanfei Liu The University of Texas at Austin
Wayne S. Gardner
Wayne S. Gardner The University of Texas at Austin
Paul A. Montagna
Paul A. Montagna Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Raymond C. Smith
Raymond C. Smith University of California, Santa Barbara
Diane K. Stoecker
Diane K. Stoecker University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Sami Souissi
Sami Souissi University of Lille
Jiang-Shiou Hwang
Jiang-Shiou Hwang National Taiwan Ocean University

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