Alaska 1980s Reports

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Study #Title
1980Proceedings of a Synthesis Meeting: The Norton Sound Environment and Possible Consequences of Planned Oil and Gas Development, Anchorage, Alaska - October 28-30, 1980
1980Nearshore Ice Conditions and Hazards in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas
1980 - SR 2Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Northern Shelikof Strait Petroleum Facilities Siting Study
1980 - SR 3Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: The Marketing and Equivalent Amortized Costs of Bering-Norton Oil and Gas
1980 - SR 4Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Small community Population Impact Model
1980 - SR 30Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Nothern and Western Gulf of Alaska, Commercial Fishing Industry Analysis
1980 - SR 31Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Northern Gulf of Alaska, Transportation System Impacts
1980 - SR 37Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Western Gulf of Alaska, Transportation Systems Impacts
1980 - SR 39Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Western Gulf of Alaska, Kodiak Non-Native Sociocultural Impacts
1980 - SR 42Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Lower Cook Inlet, Economic and Demographic Analysis
1980 - SR 44Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Lower Cook Inlet, Commercial Fishing Industry Analysis
1980 - SR 45Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Lower Cook Inlet, Transportation Systems Analysis
1980 - SR 46Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Lower Cook Inlet, Local Socioeconomic Systems Analysis, Volume 1 | Volume 2
1980 - SR 47Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Lower Cook Inlet, Socioeconomic Systems Analysis
1980 - SR 48Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Gulf of Alaska and Lower Cook Inlet, Anchorage Socioeconomic and Physical Baseline, Volume 1 | Volume 2
1980 - SR 49Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Bering - Norton Region, Petroleum Development Scenarios | Executive Summary
1980 - SR 50Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Bering - Norton, Economic and Demographic Analysis
1980 - SR 51Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Western Alaska and Bering - Norton, Commercial Fishing Industry Analysis
1980 - SR 52Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Bering - Norton, Transportation Systems Analysis
1980 - SR 53Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Bering - Norton, Local Socioeconomic Systems Analysis
1980 - SR 54Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Bering - Norton, Sociocultural System Analysis, Volume 1 | Volume 2
1980 - SR 55Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Monitoring Oil Exploration Activities in the Lower Cook Inlet
1980 - SR 56Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: St. George Basin, Petroleum Technology Assessment
1980 - TR 63Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: North Aleutian Shelf, Petroleum Technology Assessment
1981Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program, Beaufort Sea (Sale 71) Synthesis Report
1981The St. George Basin Environment and Possible Consequences of Planned Oil and Gas Development
1981Tissue Structural Studies and Other Investigations on the Biology of Endangered Whales in the Beaufort Sea, Volume I | Volume II
1981Proceedings of a Synthesis Meeting: The Norton Sound Environment and Possible Consequences of Planned Oil and Gas Development
1981 - TR 57Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: St. George Basin, Economic & Demographic Analysis
1981 - TR 58Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: St. George Basin, Transportation Systems Analysis
1981 - TR 59Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: St. George Basin, Local Socioeconomic Systems Analysis
1981 - TR 60Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: St. George Basin and North Aleutian Shelf Commercial Fishing Analysis
1981 - TR 61Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: St. George Basin, Anchorage Impact Analysis
1981 - TR 62Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Beaufort Sea Statewide and Regional Demographic and Economic Systems Impacts
1981 - TR 64Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Beaufort Sea Sociocultural Systems Update Analysis
1981 - TR 65Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Beaufort Sea Transportation Systems Analysis
1981 - TR 72Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Norton Sound/Yukon Delta Sociocultura Systems, Baseline Analysis
1982Proceedings of a Synthesis Meeting: The North Aleutian Shelf Environment and Possible Consequences of Offshore Oil and Gas Development
1982 - TR 66Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Western Alaska Transportation Systems Analysis
1982 - TR 68Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: North Aleutian Shelf Statewide and Regional Demographic and Economic Systems Impacts Analysis
1982 - TR 69Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Western Alaska Local Socioeconomic Systems Analysis
1982 - TR 70Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Navarin Basin Sociocultural Systems Baseline Analysis
1982 - TR 71Alaska Peninsula Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Systems Analysis
1982 - TR 73Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Economic and Demographic Structural Change in Alaska
1982 - TR 75Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: North Aleutian Shelf, Non-OCS Forecast Analysis, Volume 1 | Volume 2
1982 - TR 76Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Western Alaska Transportation Systems Analysis
1982 - TR 79Chukchi Sea Petroleum Technology Assessment, Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program
1982 - TR 80Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Bering Sea Cumulative Economic OCS Petroleum Development
1982 - TR 83Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Navarin Basin, Petroleum Technology Assessment
1983Behavior, Disturbance Responses and Distribution of Bowhead Whales Balaena mysticetus in the Eastern Beaufort Sea, 1982
1983 - TR 67Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: North Aleutian Shelf Sociocultural Systems Baseline Analysis
1983 - TR 74Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Chukchi Sea Sociocultural Systems Baseline Analysis
1983 - TR 77Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Social Indicators for OCS Impact Monitoring, Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
1983 - TR 78Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program: Navarin Basin Statewide & Regional Demographic & Economic Systems Impacts Forecast
1983 - TR 81Hope Basin Petroleum Technology Assessment, Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program
1983 - TR 85aA Description of the Socioeconomics of the North Slope Borough. Appendix: Transcripts of Selected Inupiat Interviews
1983 - TR 85A Description of the Socioeconomics of the North Slope Borough
1983 - TR 93Cold Bay: Ethnographic Study and Impact Analysis | Executive Summary
Report 5586Investigations of the Potential Effects of Underwater Noise from Petroleum Industry Activities on Migrating Gray Whale Behavior
Report 5366Investigations of the Potential Effects of Underwater Noise from Petroleum Industry Activities on Migrating Gray Whale Behavior
Open File Report 83-557Geologic and Operational Summary, Norton Sound Cost No. 2 Well, August 1983
Open File Report 83-124Geologic and Operational Summary, Norton Sound Cost No. 1 Well, Agust 1983
1984Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program: Proceedings of a Workshop and Sampling Design Recommendations
1984The Norton Basin Environment and Possible Consequences of Planned Oil and Gas Development
MMS 84-0002Prelease Investigation Maps of the North Aleutian Shelf, Outer Continental Shelf, Bering Sea, Alaska 1984
MMS 84-0027Prelease Investigation Maps of the North Aleutian Shelf OCS Bering Sea, Alaska, 1984, Volume 1 | Volume 2
MMS 84-0016Geological and Operational Summary, St. George Basin COST No. 1 Well, Bering Sea, Alaska, March 1984
MMS 84-0018Geological and Operational Summary, St. George Basin COST No. 2 Well, Bering Sea, Alaska, March 1984
MMS 84-0031Geological and Operational Summary, Navarin Basin COST No. 1 Well, Bering Sea, Alaska
MMS 84-0060Monitoring Oil Exploration Activities in the Beaufort Sea
MMS 84-0067Sensitivity of RAM Model Projections to Key Assumptions
MMS 84-0068Community Economic and Demographic Systems Analysis of the Norton Basin Lease Sale 100
1984 - TR 87St. George and North Aleutian Basin Economic and Demographic Systems Impacts Analysis
1984 - TR 89Effects of Renewable Resource Harvest Disruptions on Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Systems: St. Lawrence Island
1984 - TR 90Effects of Renewable Resource Harvest Disruptions on Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Systems: Norton Sound
1984 - TR 94Diapir Field Anchorage Impacts Analysis
1984 - TR 95Subsistence Based Economies
1984 - TR 96Nuiqsut Case Study | Nuiqsut Case Study: Summary Report
1984 - TR 97Bering Sea Commercial Fishing Industry Impact Analysis
1984 - TR 98Gulf of Alaska Economic & Demographic Systems Analysis
1984 - TR 99A Description of the Socioeconomics of the Norton Sound
1984 - TR 101Barrow Arch Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Description
1984 - TR 102North Aleution Basin Transportation Methodology
1984 - TR 103Sociocultural and Socioeconomic Organization of Bristol Bay: Regional and Subregional Analysis
1984 - TR 104Barrow Arch Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Description
1984 - TR 105Diapir Field Transportation Systems Impacts Analysis
1984 - TR 106Alaska Statewide and Regional Economic and Demographic Systems: Effects of OCS Exploration and Development
1984 - TR 108Unimak Pass Vessel Analysis
1984 - TR 109Sub-Arctic Deep Water Petroleum Technology Assessment
1985A Guide to Sightings of Feeding Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the Eastern Alaska Beaufort Sea
MMS 85-0002Beaufort Sea Petroleum Technology Assessment
MMS 85-0005Monitoring Seabird Populations in the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region, Conference Proceedings
MMS 85-0014Review of Cumulative Impact Assessment Literature and North Slope Borough Development Projects
MMS 85-0018Aerial Surveys of Endangered Whales in the Northern Bering, Eastern Chukchi, and Alaskan Beaufort Seas, 1984: With a Six-Year Review 1979-1984
MMS 85-0019Investigation of the Potential Effects of Underwater Noise from Petroleum Industry Activities on Feeding Humpback Whale Behavior
MMS 85-0027Monitoring OCS Activities in the Bering Sea
MMS 85-0034Behavior, Disturbance Responses, and Distribution of Bowhead Whales, Balaena Mysticetus, in the Beaufort Sea
MMS 85-0045Geologic Report for the Navarin Basin Planning Area, Bering Sea, Alaska
MMS 85-0067Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program: Analysis of Trace Metals and Hydrocarbons from Outer Continental Shelf Activities - Year 1 Results
MMS 85-0068Population Estimation, Productivity and Food Habitats of Nesting Seabirds at Cape Peirce and the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, Alaska
MMS 85-0072Monitoring Methodology and North Slope Institutional Change, 1979-1983
MMS 85-0076Observations on the Behavior of Bowhead Whales (Balaena Mysticetus) in the presence of Operating Seismic Exploration Vessels in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea
MMS 85-0077Bowhead Whale Behavior in Relation to Seismic Exploration, Alaskan Beaufort Sea, Autumn, 1981
MMS 85-0079A Social Indicators System for OCS Impact Monitoring
MMS 85-0080Proceedings of a Workshop: Review of OCS Economic and Demographic Impact Modeling for Rural Alaska
MMS 85-0081Proceedings of a Synthesis Meeting: The Norton Basin Environment and Possible Consequences of Planned Offshore Oil and Gas Development, Denali National Park, Alaska, June 5-7,1984
MMS 85-0098Development of a Coastal Oil Smear Model: Phase I
MMS 85-0109Integration of Suspended Particulate Matter and Oil Transportation Study
MMS 85-0111Geological Report for the Beaufort Sea Planning Area, Alaska
1985 - TR 91Effects of Renewable Resource Harvest Disruptions on Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Systems: Chukchi Sea
1985 - TR 115Alaska Statewide and Regional Economic and Demographic Systems: Effects of OCS Exploration and Development, 1985
1986Bowhead Whale Monitoring Program, Corona Prospect
MMS 86-0002Aerial Surveys of endangered Whales in the Northern Bering, Eastern Chukchi and Alaskan Beaufort Seas, 1981
MMS 86-0018Cultural Resource Compendium
MMS 86-0019Economic and Demographic Systems of the North Slope Borough: Beaufort Sea Lease Sale 97 and Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 109, Volume 1 | Volume 2
MMS 86-0026Importance of the Eastern Alaska Beaufort Sea to Feeding Bowhead Whales, 1985
MMS 86-0029Research on Vertical Turbulence Dispersion of Oil Droplets and Oil Particles
MMS 86-0033Geological Report for the Norton Basin Planning Area, Bering Sea, Alaska
MMS 86-0034A Description of the Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Systems of the Aleutian-Pribilof Islands Region
MMS 86-0035A Sociocultural Description of Small Communities in the Kodiak/Shumagin Region
MMS 86-0036A Description of the Social and Economic Systems of the Kodiak/Shumagin Region
MMS 86-0037Effects of Renewable Resource Harvest Disruptions on Community Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Systems: King Cove
MMS 86-0044Computer Simulation of the Probability that Endangered Whales Will Interact with Oil Spills, Final Report, October 1986
MMS 86-0045Simulation Modeling of the Effects of Oil Spills on Population Dynamics of Northern Fur Seals
MMS 86-0046Predictions of Drillings, Site-Specific Interaction of Industrial Acoustic Stimuli and Endangered Whales: Beaufort Sea
MMS 86-0050Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program: Analysis of Trace Metals and Hydrocarbons from OCS Activities
MMS 86-0059Bowhead Whales, Balaena Mystictus, Bibliography
MMS 86-0068Gray Whale, Eschrichtius Robustus, Bibliography
MMS 86-0088Barrow: A Decade of Modernization
MMS 86-0098Workshop Proceedings: Monitoring Sociocultural and Institutional Change in the Aleutian- Pribilof Region
MMS 86-0124Institutional Change in Nome, 1980-1986
1986 - TR 124Alaska Statewide and Regional Economic and Demographic Systems: Effects of OCS Exploration and Development, 1986
MMS 87-0010Surface-Transportation Networks of the Alaskan North Slope
MMS 87-0014Analysis of Aleut Institutional Response and Change: 1980-1985
MMS 87-0017Forage Fishes of the Southeastern Bering Sea, Conference Proceedings
MMS 87-0018Sea Ice Forces and Mechanics Conference Proceedings
MMS 87-0028Monitoring of the Winter Presence of Bowhead Whales in the Navarin Basin through Association with Ice
MMS 87-0030Geologic Report for the St. George Basin Planning Area, Bering Sea, Alaska
MMS 87-0037Importance of the Eastern Alaskan Beaufort Sea to Feeding Bowhead Whales, Eastern Alaska
MMS 87-0038Development of Satellite-linked Methods of Large Cetacean Tagging and Tracking in OCS Lease Areas
MMS 87-0039Distribution, Abundance, Behavior, and Bioacoustics of Endangered Whales in the Alaskan Beaufort and Eastern Chukchi Seas, 1979-1986
MMS 87-0043The Population Status of Seabirds on St. Matthew and Hall Islands, 1985-1986
MMS 87-0044Subsistence Fisheries Alaska Arctic, 1970-1986
MMS 87-0046Geological Report for the Chukchi Sea Planning Area, Alaska
MMS 87-0048Bering Sea Monitoring Program: Proceedings of a Workshop and Sampling Design Recommendations
MMS 87-0072Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program: Analysis of Trace Metals and Hydrocarbons from Outer Continental Shelf Activities | Appendices | 1984-1986 BSMP Data.zip | 1989 BMSP Data.zip | 89BSMPexcel.zip
MMS 87-0083Integration of Suspended Particulated Matter and Oil Transportation Study
MMS 87-0084Prediction of Drilling Site-Specific interaction of Industrial Acoustic Stimuli and Endangered Whales in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea
MMS 87-0109Geological and Operational Summary, Kodiak Shelf Stratigraphic Test Wells, Western Gulf of Alaska
MMS 87-0111Measurement of Vertical Turbulent Dispersion and Diffusion of Oil Droplets
MMS 87-0122Distribution, Abundance, Behavior and Bioacoustics of Endangered Whales in the Western Beaufort and Northeastern Chukchi Seas, 1979-87 and Appendix
MMS 88-0022Populations, Productivity, and Feeding Habits of Seabirds on St. Lawrence Island
MMS 88-0023Fall Migration of Ross' Gull, Rhodostethia Rosea, in Alaskan Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
MMS 88-0030Aerial Surveys of Endangered Whales in the Beaufort Sea, Fall 1987
MMS 88-0032Development, Testing and Verification of an Oil Spill Surf Zone Mass Transport Model
MMS 88-0040Arctic Information Transfer Meeting, Conference Proceedings
MMS 88-0042Fisheries Oceanography: A Comprehensive Formulation of Technical Objectives for Offshore Application in the Arctic
MMS 88-0049Synthesis of Effects of Oil on Marine Mammals
MMS 88-0056Comparison of Behavior of Bowhead Whales of the Davis Strait and Bering/Beaufort Stocks
MMS 88-0077Kotzebue Sociocultural Monitoring Study
MMS 88-0078Nome Sociocultural Monitoring Study
MMS 88-0079Village Economics in Rural Alaska: Social and Economic Studies
MMS 88-0080
Technical Report 133		North Slope Subsistence Study - Barrow, 1987
MMS 88-0089Geological and Operational Summary, North Aleutian Shelf, Cost 1 Well, Bering Sea, Alaska
MMS 88-0091Population Model for Alaska Peninsula Sea Otters
MMS 88-0092Synthesis of Information on the Effects of Noise and Disturbance on Major Haulout Concentrations of Bering Pinnipeds
MMS 89-0003Development of a Predictive Model for the Weathering of Oil in the Presence of Sea Ice
MMS 89-0006Analysis and Ranking of the Acoustic Disturbance Potential of Petroleum Industry Activities and Other Sources of Noise in the Environment of Marine Mammals in Alaska
MMS 89-0012Development of an Method for Monitoring the Productivity, Survivorship, and Recruitment of the Pacific Walrus Population
MMS 89-0014Populations, Productivity and Feeding Habits of Seabirds at Cape Thompson, Alaska
MMS 89-0015Right Whale, Balaena Glacialis, Bibliography
MMS 89-0033Aerial Surveys of Endangered Whales in the Beaufort Sea, Fall 1988
MMS 89-0038A Synthesis of Environmental Information of Causeways in the Nearshore Beaufort Sea, Alaska - Workshop Proceedings
MMS 89-0058Migration of Northern Fur Seals, Callorhinus Ursinus, Pups in the Bering Sea
MMS 89-0076Economic and Demographic Systems Analysis - Gulf of Alaska/Cook Inlet
MMS 89-0077
Technical Report 135		North Slope Subsistence Study - Barrow, 1988
MMS 89-0078
Technical Report 136		North Slope Subsistence Study - Wainwright, 1988
MMS 89-0081The Yukon Delta: A Synthesis of Information
MMS 89-0083A Demographic and Employment Analysis of Selected Alaska Rural Communities, Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
MMS 89-0084Regional and Village Corporation Employment Profile
MMS 89-0093Point Lay Case Study
MMS 89-0094
Technical Report 140		Point Lay Biographies
MMS 89-0097Geological Report for the Shumagin Planning Area, Western Gulf of Alaska