On June 25, 2012 the following paper was published online:
Silliman, B. R., J. van de Koppel, M. W. McCoy, J. Diller, G. Kasozi, K. Earl, P. N. Adams, Andrew R. Zimmerman, 2012, Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, no. 28, p. 11234–11239, (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204922109). (link)
This manuscript represents a collaboration between ecologists, geochemists, and geomorphologists to document marsh shoreline retreat and recovery following the April 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in Barataria Bay. Numerical modeling results suggest that the sites that experienced high retreat rates were not predisposed to erosion, and that retreat likely occurred from oil-driven marsh plant die off, which destabilized marsh shorelines.