RDSEA "Pic of the Week"
Combined efforts, University of South Florida's College of Marine Science; Ocean Circulation Laboratory, and the Center of Ocean Technologies (COT), bring back to life a Met-Ocean site on USF's "Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System" (COMPS), West Florida Shelf (WFS), eastern Gulf of Mexico, the initial/original coastal monitoring system in the U.S.:
New Research on Gulf of Mexico Loop Current
Near Real-Time Hydrography and Deep Velocity in the Loop Current System Using Autonomous ProfilersThis project will procure, deploy, and maintain a fleet of autonomous ocean dynamics-instrumented profiling floats to measure temperature, salinity, and current velocities in LCS active areas of the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Award Amount: $1,155,371Project Director: Amy Bower (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)Project Team Affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in cooperation with Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (Center for Scientific
MTR’s “Top 10” Ocean Influencers
several corporate and non-profit organizationsEarning undergraduate and post graduate degrees in botany helped form Dr. Earle’s belief that understanding vegetation was the first step in understanding any ecosystem. Dr. Earle’s 1966 Duke University dissertation, “Phaeophyta of Eastern Gulf of Mexico,” shed new light on the region’s aquatic plant life, and when combined with her other Gulf research, the body of work stands today as the definitive study of the region’s abundant and rich aquatic plant life.Dr. Earle has led more than 100 expeditions and logged more than
US States Slow Trump Offshore Oil Drilling Expansion Plan
. "We are constantly scouring the planet to really understand resource potential," said Steve Pastor, BHP Billiton's president of petroleum operations. The Gulf of Mexico has some of the best discovered potential, he said. BHP has previously explored acreage in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, at its Sake project, in a formation off the coast of Alabama. Proposed new lease areas along the U.S. Atlantic coast would require seismic mapping and development of infrastructure that would take time. "I can't put a fine point on whether we would pursue it," Pastor said
NOIA Comments Support Offshore Leasing Program
with lease sale planning in all 25 planning areas proposed in the Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2019-2024 (DPP). Specifically, NOIA supports the annual offering of all acreage in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico and the opening of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico as soon as the current moratorium expires, and recommends conducting lease sales early in the plan in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas as well as in the Mid, South, and North Atlantic and Southern California Planning areas. “This is the first draft proposed offshore leasing program
US Senators from 12 States Seek Offshore Drilling Exemptions like Florida's
; National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi called the move "disappointing and premature" while American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard said it puts thousands of jobs at stake. Industry groups and companies told Reuters last week that the eastern Gulf of Mexico and parts of the southern Atlantic were most attractive to drillers despite 90 percent of federal waters being on offer. The Interior Department has declined to answer repeated requests for detail on which parts of those areas might be off limits due to Florida's exemption - saying
As US Opens Up Offshore Waters, Eastern GoM Beckons
President Donald Trump's administration has proposed opening up nearly all of America's offshore waters to oil and gas drilling, but the industry says it is mainly interested in one part of it, now cordoned off by the Pentagon: the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The industry's focus on an area located near a sprawling network of existing platforms, pipes and ports could ease the path to new reserves, and assuage the drilling opponents near other places offered under the Interior Department's proposed drilling plan issued last week, like California's Pacific
Trump Aims to Open Nearly All US Offshore to Oil Drilling
oil and gas sector over the tourism sector. "What part of the business sector are they listening to? It’s certainly not small or coastal businesses,” Knapp said. The Defense Department has also raised concerns about opening drilling that had been banned off the eastern Gulf of Mexico, where military exercises are held. (Reporting By Valerie Volcovici; Editing by Nick Zieminski and Cynthia Osterman)
Experts Expect Lively Hurricane Season
hurricanes and two became major hurricanes. Historical data also indicates that seasons which are active during the months of May, June and July have a higher likelihood of becoming a normal or above-normal season. Meteorologists are monitoring the northwestern Caribbean and eastern Gulf of Mexico for potential development next week. Should a storm develop, it will take the name Colin. Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
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