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08/16/2017 Sale 249 held on Wednesday, August 16, 2017, in New Orleans, LA, was broadcast live on the internet delivering pertinent information immediately to a much broader national and international audience. |
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06/21/2017 Lease Sale 244, held on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Anchorage, Alaska, was broadcast live on the internet delivering pertinent information immediately to a much broader national and international audience. |
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03/22/2017 Sale 247 held on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in New Orleans, LA, was broadcast live on the internet delivering pertinent information immediately to a much broader national and international audience. |
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08/24/2016 Sale 248 held on August 24, 2016, in New Orleans, LA, was the first federal offshore oil and gas auction broadcast live on the internet delivering pertinent bid information immediately to a much broader national and international audience. |
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07/19/2016 Archaeologists and scientific divers from the UNC Coastal Studies Institute, BOEM, East Carolina University and NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary recently completed a cultural resource survey within the wind energy area offshore Maryland. |
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BOEM's "Gulf of Mexico Shipwreck Corrosion, Hydrocarbon Exposure, Microbiology, and Archaeology (GOM-SCHEMA) project" is examining historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico to help scientists unlock mysteries of deep-sea ecosystems and impacts from the 2010 oil spill. |
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04/22/2016 Students shared their knowledge and creativity with their peers at the BOEM exhibit. |
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The proposed oil and gas lease sale is tentatively scheduled to be held in March 2017 under the current 5-Year Program. |
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10/23/2015 On October 20, 2015, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Hopper traveled to Long Beach Island, New Jersey, to observe progress made since Hurricane Sandy in shore and dune restoration. |
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08/05/2015 This video provides a glimpse into innovative field work funded by BOEM and administered by the USFWS Northeast Region Migratory Bird program on several shorebird/coastal bird species in the mid-Atlantic region relative to effects of offshore wind energy development. |
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05/26/2015 Pathways to the Abyss showcases deepwater marine habitats of two mid-Atlantic Canyons located 100 miles offshore Virginia and Maryland. Research findings from the study are significant and depict a biologically rich region that had not been fully explored in the past. |
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05/08/2015 Archaeologists and scientific divers from the UNC Coastal Studies Institute, BOEM, East Carolina University and NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary recently completed a cultural resource survey within the wind energy area proposed off Cape Charles, Virginia. |
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04/28/2015 This film presents the epic journey of bowhead whales as they make their annual migration across the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. This films draws upon an extensive body of traditional knowledge gathered and sustained by the indigenous whaling peoples. |
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04/21/2015 Revealing the Gulf of Mexico's Deep Hidden Currents. Since 2011, BOEM has been sponsoring a study of deep circulation in the Gulf of Mexico. Data collection is expected to conclude in spring 2015, followed by a BOEM final report in 2016. |
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2013 Field Season of the Flower Garden Banks Long Term Monitoring Study - The 2013 field season continues the incredible research into the potential impacts from the oil and gas industry on the coral community health at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. |
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2012 Field Season of the Flower Garden Banks Long Term Monitoring Study - BOEM’s Gulf of Mexico Region dive team filmed some of the scientific research taking place over 100 miles offshore of Galveston, TX. |
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06/09/2013 BOEM Deputy Director Walter Cruickshank is interviewed by Platts Energy about a lease sale (i.e., auction) for a Wind Energy Area (WEA) offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts. |
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05/22/2013 Exploration and Research of Northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Natural and Artificial Hard Bottom Habitats with Emphasis on Coral Communities - Reefs, Rigs, and Wrecks |
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04/27/2012 BOEM archaeologists working with the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research and other partners* discovered an historic wooden-hulled vessel that sank some 200 years ago. |
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03/27/2013 The only Federal warship sunk at sea in the Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War lies about 20 miles off of the Texas coast, in Federal waters administered by BOEM and BSEE. |
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11/15/2012 Cape Lookout Lighthouse Morning Siemens 10nm Animation |
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