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National Ongoing Studies

BOEMRE Ongoing Studies

Physical Oceanography Social Economics Fates and Effects Studies
Habitat & Ecology Marine Mammals  

Physical Oceanography:

bullet Improving Wind Wave Forecasting and Hindcasting: Global to Regional Scales
bullet Investigation of Virginia Seeps
bullet OSRA Modeling Review Board
bullet Extension of Ocean Model Calculations
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Shelf-Slope Sediment Exchange in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Application of Numerical Models for Extreme Events

Social Economics:

bullet OCS Renewable Energy and Space-Use Conflicts and Related Mitigation

Fates and Effects Studies:  

bullet Investigation of Dredging Guidelines to Maintain and Protect the Integrity of Offshore Ridge and Shoal Regimes/Detailed Morphologic Evaluation of Offshore Shoals
bullet Environmental Investigation of the Long-Term Use of Trinity and Tiger Shoals as Sand Resources for Large Scale Beach and Coastal Restoration in Louisiana (formerly Biological Surveys and Physical Modeling for New Borrow Areas Identified Offshore Louisiana)
bullet Best Practices for Physical Process and Impact Assessment in Support of Beach Nourishment and Coastal Restoration Activities
bullet Improving Emission Estimates and Understanding of Pollutant Dispersal for Impact Analysis of Beach Nourishment and Coastal Restoration Projects
bullet Sub-Seabed Geologic Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Best Management Practices
bullet Underwater Hearing Sensitivity in the Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea): Assessing the Potential Effect of Anthropogenic Noise

Habitat & Ecology:

bullet Estimation of Marine Productivity in BOEMRE Planning Areas
bullet Archiving of Outer Continental Shelf Invertebrates by the Smithsonian Institution
bullet Hearing in Sea Otters (Enhydra Lutris): Measurement of Auditory Detection Thresholds for Tonal and Industry Sounds
bullet Automated Analysis of Bird Vocalization Recordings
bullet Surveying for Marine Birds in the Northwest Atlantic
bullet Compendium of Avian Information and Comprehensive GIS Geodatabase
bullet Determining Distributions and Movements of Long-tailed Ducks Using Satellite Telemetry
bullet Effects of Pile Driving Sounds on Auditory and Non-auditory Tissues of Fish
bullet Potential for Interactions between Endangered and Candidate Bird Species with Wind Facility Operations on the Atlantic OCS

Marine Mammals
bullet Support for NOPP Project on Improving Cetacean Electronic Data Loggers
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Support for the Development of a Marine Mammal Data Archive
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Support for JIP Controlled Exposure Experiments with Humpback Whales and Seismic Air Gun Arrays and Testing of Effectiveness of Ramp-Up