The RCYC team at NCDP and LSU are in the process of analyzing multiple waves of data from this unique cohort study which tracks a group of households exposed to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, over time. As new publications and other related features become available they will be listed below. Data from two waves of this study are publicly available on the GoMRI dataset repository, GRIIDC.
RCYC Publications
Features and Podcasts
Lee, K. Pod of the Planet Ep. 7: Oiled and Spoiled. State of the Planet, The Earth Institute, 2020. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/07/15/podcast-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill/. Accessed 15 July 2020.
Fecht, S. State of the Planet: Children Exposed to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Suffered Physical and Mental Health Effects, The Earth Institute, 2020. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/07/15/deepwater-horizon-child-health-impacts/. Accessed 15 July 2020.
Varanasi, A. Empowering the Communities Most Vulnerable to Disaster, State of the Planet, The Earth Institute, 2019. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/12/23/jaishree-beedasy-disasters-children/. Accessed 23 Dec. 2019.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Stroope, S., Slack, T., Kroeger, R., Sweet-Keating, K., Beedasy, J., Sury, J., Brooks, J., Chandler, T. (2023). Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill exposures and long-term self-rated health effects among parents in coastal Louisiana, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
Stroope, S., Slack, T., Kroeger, R., Sweet-Keating, K., Beedasy, J., Sury, J., Brooks, J., Chandler, T. (2022). Parental education and child physical health following the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, American Journal of Health Promotion.
Stroope, S., Slack, T., Kroeger, R., Sweet-Keating, K., Beedasy, J., Sury, J., Brooks, J., Chandler, T. (2022). Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill exposure, industry sector, and child health, Population Research and Policy Review, 41, 229–249.
Beedasy, J., Samur, A., Chandler, T., Slack, T. (2020). Online community discourse during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: an analysis of Twitter interactions, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Beedasy, J., Petkova, E.P., Lackner, S., & Sury, J. (2020). Gulf Coast parents speak: children’s health in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Environmental Hazards, Environmental Hazards.
Keating, K.S., Becker, S., Davis, I.F., Chandler, T., Slack, T. & Beedasy, J. (In Press). Families Coping with Financial Loss following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Family Relations.
Slack, T., Beedasy, J., Chandler, T., Keating, K.S., Sury, J & Brooks, J. (2020). Family Resilience Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Theory and Evidence. Chapter 3: Building Community and Family Resilience. A.W. Harrist and M. Stout (Eds.). New York: Springer.
Slack, T., Kroeger, R.A., Stroope, S., Keating, K.S., Sury, J., Books, J., Chandler, T., & Beedasy, J. (2020). “Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Exposure and Child Health: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Population and Environment.
Publicly Available Data from the RCYC Research Project
“Understanding resilience attributes for children, youth, and communities in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill study, Wave 3, Southeast Louisiana, 2018”, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative GRIIDC, 2019, https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/R5.x287.000:0001.
“Understanding resilience attributes for children, youth, and communities in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill study, Wave 2, Southeast Louisiana, 2016”, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative GRIIDC, 2019, https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/R5.x287.000:0004.