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Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks, 2004-2008, Volume 1: Technical Report

Description: A report describing the monitoring of the East and West Flower Garden Bank in accordance with the long-term monitoring protocol.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Zimmer, Beth; Duncan, Leslie; Aronson, Richard B.; Deslarzes, Kenneth J. P.; Deis, Donald R.; Robbart, Martha L. et al.
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Refining and Revising the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Region High-Probability Model for Historic Shipwrecks, Final Report: Volume 2. Technical Narrative

Description: Technical narrative portion of a study to update the database of historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and develop a revised predictive model for locating shipwrecks in the GOM Outer Continental Shelf region.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Pearson, Charles E.; James, Stephen R., Jr.; Krivor, Michael C.; Darragi, S. Dean & Cunningham, Lori
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Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks, 2004-2005 -- Interim Report, Volume 1: Technical Report

Description: A report documenting the monitoring of the East and West Flower Garden Banks in accordance with the long-term monitoring protocol.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Precht, William F.; Aronson, Richard B.; Deslarzes, Kenneth J. P.; Robbart, Martha L.; Evans, David J.; Zimmer, Beth et al.
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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Plankton Stocks on the Basis of Acoustic Backscatter Intensity and Direct Measurements in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Description: Report detailing the size and concentration of zooplankton in the water column using backscattered acoustic signals of acoustic Doppler current profilers
Date: unknown
Creator: Scott, Rebecca L.; Biggs, Douglas C. & DiMarco, Steven F.
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Refining and Revising the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Region High-Probability Model for Historic Shipwrecks, Final Report. Volume 3: Appendices

Description: Appendices providing a legend/explanation for the report on a high-probability model for historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico's Outer Continental Shelf region. Specific report information is not available for publicly disclosure, however a project summary and executive summary are also available.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Pearson, Charles E.; James, Stephen R., Jr.; Krivor, Michael C.; El Darragi, S. Dean & Cunningham, Lori
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Basin Analysis and Petroleum System Characterization and Modeling, Interior Salt Basins, Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Description: The principal research effort for Year 3 of the project is basin modeling and petroleum system identification, comparative basin evaluation and resource assessment. In the first six (6) months of Year 3, the research focus is on basin modeling and petroleum system identification and the remainder of the year the emphasis is on the comparative basin evaluation and resource assessment. No major problems have been encountered to date, and the project is on schedule. The principal objectives of the… more
Date: February 28, 2006
Creator: Mancini, Ernest A.; Aharon, Paul; Goddard, Donald A. & Barnaby, Roger
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Dust from Africa Leads to Large Toxic Algae Blooms in Gulf of Mexico, Study Finds. [Press release].

Description: This press release summarizes the findings of a new study. Saharan dust clouds travel thousands of miles and fertilize the water off the West Florida coast with iron, which kicks off blooms of toxic algae. The research was partially funded by a NASA grant as part of ECOHAB: Florida (Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms), a multi-disciplinary research project designed to study harmful algae.
Date: August 28, 2001
Creator: NASA News
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Resource Assessment of the In-Place and Potentially Recoverable Deep Natural Gas Resource of the Onshore Interior Salt Basins, North Central and Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Semiannual Progress Report: Year 3

Description: The principal research effort for the first half of Year 3 of the project has been resource assessment. Emphasis has been on estimating the total volume of hydrocarbons generated and the potential amount of this resource that is classified as deep (>15,000 ft) gas in the North Louisiana Salt Basin, the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin, the Manila Subbasin and the Conecuh Subbasin. The amount of this resource that has been expelled, migrated and entrapped is also the focus of the first half of… more
Date: April 26, 2006
Creator: Mancini, Ernest A.; Aharon, Paul; Goddard, Donald A. & Barnaby, Roger
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IN-SITU SAMPLING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURALLY OCCURRING MARINE METHANE HYDRATE USING THE D/V JOIDES RESOLUTION

Description: The primary accomplishments of the JOI Cooperative Agreement with DOE/NETL in this quarter were that: (1) Frank Rack presented preliminary results and operational outcomes of ODP Leg 204 at the DOE/NETL project review and two made two presentations at the ChevronTexaco Gulf of Mexico Hydrate JIP meeting, which were both held in Westminster, CO; and, (2) postcruise evaluation of the data, tools and measurement systems that were used during ODP Leg 204 continued in the preparation of deliverables… more
Date: May 1, 2004
Creator: Rack, Frank R.
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T-R Cycle Characterization and Imaging: Advanced Diagnostic Methodology for Petroleum Reservoir and Trap Detection and Delineation Quarterly Report: June-August 2005

Description: The principal research effort for Year 2 of the project is on stratigraphic model assessment and development. The research focus for the first six (6) months of Year 2 is on T-R cycle model development. The emphasis for the remainder of the year is on assessing the depositional model and developing and testing a sequence stratigraphy model. The development and testing of the sequence stratigraphy model has been accomplished through integrated outcrop, well log and seismic studies of Mesozoic st… more
Date: September 19, 2005
Creator: Mancini, Ernest A.; Parcell, William C. & Hart, Bruce S.
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Potential Stafford Act Declarations for the Gulf Coast Oil Spill: Issues for Congress

Description: This report discusses the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, P.L. 93-288, which presents several options, and could provide a number of programs, to address the Gulf Coast oil spill. The Stafford Act authorizes the President to issue "major disaster" or "emergency" declarations before or after catastrophes occur. Emergency declarations trigger aid that protects property, public health, and safety and lessens or averts the threat of an incident becoming a catastroph… more
Date: May 13, 2010
Creator: McCarthy, Francis X.
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Potential Economic Impacts from Offshore Wind in the Gulf of Mexico Region (Fact Sheet)

Description: Offshore wind is a clean, renewable source of energy and can be an economic driver in the United States. To better understand the employment opportunities and other potential regional economic impacts from offshore wind development, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded research that focuses on four regions of the country. The studies use multiple scenarios with various local job and domestic manufacturing content assumptions. Each regional study uses the new offshore wind Jobs and Economi… more
Date: January 1, 2014
Creator: Flores, F.; Keyser, D. & Tegen, S.
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Tax Issues and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Legal Analysis of Payments and Tax Relief Policy Options

Description: This report will briefly discuss existing disaster-related tax provisions and their application to the recent Depewater Horizon oil rig explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The report then provides an analysis of the tax treatment of the BP payments to the individuals and businesses impacted by the oil spill as well as various policy options for providing tax relief to oil spill victims, highlighting the circumstantial differences between previous natural disasters and the … more
Date: October 14, 2010
Creator: Sherlock, Molly F.; Lunder, Erika K. & Liu, Edward C.
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Support of Gulf of Mexico Hydrate Research Consortium: Activities to Support Establishment of a Sea Floor Monitoring Station Project

Description: The Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Research Consortium (GOM-HRC) was established in 1999 to assemble leaders in gas hydrates research. The Consortium is administered by the Center for Marine Resources and Environmental Technology, CMRET, at the University of Mississippi. The primary objective of the group is to design and emplace a remote monitoring station or sea floor observatory (MS/SFO) on the sea floor in the northern Gulf of Mexico by the year 2007, in an area where gas hydrates are known to be … more
Date: March 31, 2007
Creator: Woolsey, J. Robert; McGee, Thomas M.; Lutken, Carol Blanton & Stidham, Elizabeth
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