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To fulfill its environmental mandate, BOEM has funded more than $1 billion in scientific research since 1973. This body of research supports timely, responsible offshore energy, mineral, and geological resource development.

ESP has completed over 2,000 studies, and its research covers an extensive portfolio of environmental and human sciences, including physical oceanography, atmospheric sciences, biology, protected species, social sciences, economics, submerged cultural resources, and environmental fates and effects.

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Marine Minerals Studies

 
(Year, title, NSL#)
2024 - Alaska
Ice Impacts on the Resonance, Convergence, and Friction of Tidal Transport
NSL# AK-24-03-01
2024 - Alaska
Updating Lower Cook Inlet Seabird Colony Counts
NSL# AK-24-01
2023 - Alaska
Cook Inlet Area-wide Recreation and Tourism Inventory
NSL# AK-23-02
2023 - Alaska
Pipeline Gas Release Frequency, Scenarios, and Impacts​
NSL# AK-23-03
2022 - Alaska
Cook Inlet Physical Oceanography Data Curation, Visualization, and Analyses
NSL# AK-22-04
2022 - Alaska
Lower Cook Inlet Fish and Invertebrate Community Composition, Distribution, and Density
NSL# AK-22-01
2021 - Alaska
Bowhead Whale Migration Patterns along the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf During a Period of Rapid Environmental Change
NSL# AK-21-04
2021 - Alaska
GPS Tagging of Seabirds to Obtain Areas of Foraging Aggregations and Forage Fish Schools in Lower Cook Inlet
NSL# AK-21-06
2021 - Alaska
Resource Areas to Support Marine Resource Management in the Cook Inlet Region
NSL# AK-21-03
2021 - Alaska
Seamount Benthic Mapping and Characterization, in support of Critical Minerals and Deep Corals of the Aleutian Islands
NSL# MM-21-04

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