Ongoing MMS Sand and Gravel Studies Administered by Headquarters
- Investigation of Dredging Guidelines to
Maintain and Protect the Integrity of Offshore Ridge and Shoal
Regimes/Detailed Morphologic Evaluation of Offshore Shoals (NT 06-02)
- Environmental Investigation of the
Long-Term Use of Trinity Shoal as Sand Resources for Large Scale Beach
and Coastal Restoration in Louisiana (NT-06-03)
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Ship Shoal: Sand, Shrimp, and Seatrout (GM-92-42-109)
- Examination of the Physical and Biological
Implications of Using Buried Channel Deposits and Other Non-Topographic
Offshore Features as Beach Nourishment Material (NT-05-07)
- Biological
Characterization/Numerical Wave Model Analysis within Identified Borrow
Sites Offshore the West Coast of Florida/Physical Implications of Sand
Dredging on the Topography of the West Florida Shelf (NT-05-06)
- Biological Characterization/Numerical Wave
Model Analysis within Identified Borrow Sites Offshore the Northeast Coast
of Florida (NT-05-05)
- Worldwide Survey of
Dredging Impacts on Commercial and Recreational Fisheries and Analysis of
Available Mitigation Measures to Protect and Preserve Resources (NT-04-06)
- Analysis of Potential Biological and
Physical Dredging Impacts on Offshore Ridge and Shoal Features/Engineering
Alternatives and Options to Avoid Adverse Environmental Impacts (NT-03-06)
- Environmental Investigation of the
Long-Term Use of Ship Shoal Sand Resources for Large-Scale Beach and Coastal
Restoration in Louisiana (NT-03-04)
- Environmental Investigation of the Use of Shoals Offshore Maryland by Mobile Benthos and Finfish Species (NT-02-02)
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