Ongoing Environmental Studies - Gulf Of Mexico

NSL #

STUDY TITLE

BOEM CONTACT

PROJECT PERIOD

Air Quality
GM-19-03 GOMR Coastal Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program: A Pilot Study Ren 2019-2023
GM-22-01 Impact of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells on Air and Water Quality in the Gulf of Mexico Ren 2023-2025

Archaeology
GM-13-03c A Comparative Analysis of an Oil Spill on the Biota Inhabiting Several Gulf of Mexico Shipwrecks: Microbial Analysis Damour 2013-2017
GM-19-04-01 Investigation of an Ancient Bald Cypress Forest in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Phase 2 Jones 2020-2023

Baseline
GM-20-02

Characterizing the seafloor in the mesophotic zone data gap

Sorset

2020-2024

GM-18-x01

Long-Term Coral Reef Monitoring at the Flower Garden Banks (FGB), Gulf of Mexico: 2019-2022

Caporaso

2019-2023

Biology
GM-14-06 Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks: 2014-2017 Roscigno 2014-2019
GM-1405b Coral Reef Ocean Acidification Sentinel Site in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Roscigno 2014-2019
GM-1405a Coral Reef Ocean Acidification Sentinel Site in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Belter 2014-2017

GM-14-06

Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks: 2014-2017

Belter

2014-2017

Fates and Effects
MM-19-01 Ecological Function and Recovery of Biological Communities within Sand Shoal Habitats within the Gulf of Mexico Rogers 2019-2024
GM-20-01b Assessing the Impact of Seismic Airguns on Commercially and Recreationally-important Fish Segarra 2021-2023
GM-20-01a Assessing the Impact of Seismic Airguns on Commercially and Recreationally-important Fish Segarra 2021-2023
GM-19-04-03 Impact of Non-linear Sedimentation on Dredge Area Benthic Ecosystem on Louisiana Shelf Barton 2020-2023
GM-19-02 Wind Tunnel Experiments for Oil and Gas Platform and Drilling Rig Downwash Hernandez 2020-2022
GM-19-01 An analysis of seafloor impacts on the Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf for adaptive management strategies Sorset 2019-2022
GM-17-x20 Pressure Wave and Acoustic Properties Generated by Explosive Removal of Offshore Structures Nord 2019-2022

GM-15-02

Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Program for the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Glenn

2015-2022

GM-14-03-12

Development of a Monitoring Program for Water Quality and Biogeochemical Processes of Louisiana Sediment Borrow Areas

Miner

2017-2019

GM-14-03-10

Assessment of Ship Shoal Borrow Areas for Coastal Restoration of Louisiana Barrier Islands

Miner

2017-2019

Geology
GM-17-07 Multibeam Survey of Small Topographic Features to Determine Efficacy of Current “No Activity Zones” Mueller 2017-2020
GM-15-10 Gulf of Mexico Land Loss Change Assessment and Application to Louisiana Coastal Habitat Loss Damour 2015-2017
GM-14-03-05 Assessment of Mud-Capped Dredge Pit Evolution on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of Northern Gulf of Mexico Rice 2014-2018

Information Management

GM-14-03-01

Administration of the LSU Coastal Marine Institute

 Damour

2014-2019

Physical Oceanography

GM-16-08

 Forecasted Ecosystem Conditions in Gulf of Mexico OCS Habitats Using Coupled Modeling and Climate Scenarios Hernandez 2016-2022
GM-14-03-03 Delineating Areas of Enhanced Sediment Accumulation in the Northern Gulf of Mexico DuFore 2015-2017

GM-14-03-03

Delineating Areas of Enhanced Sediment Accumulation in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

DuFore

2015-2017

GM-16-08

Forecasted Ecosystem Conditions in Gulf of Mexico OCS Habitats Using Coupled Modeling and Climate Scenarios

Green

2015-2019

Protected Species
MM-19-03 Fine-Scale Dive Profiles and Activity Patterns of Sea Turtles in the Gulf of Mexico Mallindine 2019-2024

GM-11-03

Sperm Whales and Bottlenose Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico

Glenn

2011-2014

GM-13-07

Florida Manatee Movement and Habitat Use in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Glenn

2013-2018

GM-16-09d

Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMMAPPS): Sea Turtle Fieldwork and Data Analysis

Green

2017-2021

GM-16-09c

Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMMAPPS): Seabird Fieldwork and Data Analysis

Green

2017-2021

GM-16-09b

Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMMAPPS): Marine Mammal Fieldwork and Data Analysis

Green

2017-2021

Socioeconomics
GM-21-02 Of National Significance: The Gulf's 19th-Century Shipwrecks Sorset 2021-2025

GM-14-03-09

Update to BOEM Gulf of Mexico Fact Book Update

Phanuef

2015-2018

GM-16-03

Assessing Temporal and Spatial Variability in Community and Parish-Level Responses to Oil Spills and Other Events in Coastal Louisiana

Chaky

2015-2019