Microbial activities and geochemical parameters in sediments affected by the DWH oil fallout, November 29 - December 02, 2010

This dataset has heterotrophic microbial metabolic rates (enzyme activities, leucine incorporation, bacterial abundance) as well as porewater and sedimentary geochemical parameters at sites proximate to and distant from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. Six sediment cores were collected from late November to early December 2010.