Dataset for: Evidence of lasting impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep Gulf of Mexico coral community

This dataset contains images of cold water corals collected at Mississippi Canyon (MC) 294, November 2010-March 2012. Corals were identified to the genus and species level. This dataset supports the publication: Hsing P, Fu B, Larcom EA, Berlet SP, Shank TM, et al. 2013. Evidence of lasting impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep Gulf of Mexico coral community. Elem. Sci. Anth. 1: 000012. doi: 10.12952/journal.elementa.000012. Data record on Dryad: http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.73tj5.