ABSTRACT Climate change, the opening of northwest passage, production and transportation oil reserves in addition to large size number ocean-going vessels, are putting all Canada's oceans at an elevated risk for spill. Responses marine spills include physical (skimming recovery), chemical (dispersants, herders) biological processes (biodegradation). Natural attenuation, a weathering process tha...

introduction: in this study, the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oil of ziziphora clinopodiodes and its potential application as a natural preservative in reducing the indigenous microbial population of hamburger were investigated. method: essential oil of ziziphora clinopodiodes cultivated in iran was obtained by hydro-distillation method (hdm). chemical compositio...

Soil bacteria play a major role in ecological and biodegradable function processes in oil-contaminated soils. Here, we assessed the bacterial diversity and changes therein in oil-contaminated soils exposed to different periods of oil pollution using 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes. No less than 24,953 valid reads and 6246 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were obtained from all five studi...

Oil contamination in Iran due to high application of oil compounds, is one of the most dangerous pollution factors. Bioremediation is one of principal strategies for remediation, where in the pollutants can be removed by use of microorganism or any biological process that uses microorganisms or their enzymes to return the environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. With regar...

Background : Phenol and it’s derivatives were removed by physicochemical methods in the past but nowadays biological treatment has priority. Bacteria with the rapid proliferation in the presence of phenol and it’s derivatives can remove them in a good manner. The aim of this project is isolation and identification of bacteria that degrade phenol from water and sediment of Kor river and also inv...

We investigated the bulk electrical conductivity and microbial population distribution in sediments at a site contaminated with light nonaqueous-phase liquid (LNAPL). The bulk conductivity was measured using in-situ vertical resistivity probes; the most probable num­ ber method was used to characterize the spatial distri­ bution of aerobic heterotrophic and oil-degrading mi­ crobial populations...

most of poly aromatic hydrocarbons are stable in marine environment and don’t degrade easily. if they accede to the aquatic animals bodies, they will accumulate in their fat tissues. the toxic effects of these compounds are consisting of carcinogenic, mutagenic and germinal tribulation. hence present study was done with purpose of isolation and identification of naphthalene degrading bacteria a...

Phenol is one of the organic pollutants in various industrial wastewaters especially petrochemical and oil refining. Biological treatment is one of the considerable choices for removing of phenol present in these wastewaters. Identification of effective microbial species is considered as one of the important priorities for production of the biomass in order to achieve desirable kinetic of biolo...

The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout in the northern Gulf of Mexico represents one of the largest marine oil spills. Significant shifts in bacterial community composition in the water column correlated to the microbial degradation and utilization of oil hydrocarbons. Nevertheless, the full genetic potential and taxon-specific metabolisms of bacterial hydrocarbon degraders enriched during the DWH...