The Gulf Research Program has announced their 2015 exploratory grants and fellowships are open for application. For exploratory grants, letters of intent, required for this proposal, are due January 20, 2015 at 8pm ET. Full proposal are due March 30, 2015 at 8pm ET. Fellowships applications are due February 6, 2015 at 8pm ET. Please Read More
Category: Gulf Science and Education – Archive
Archive folders hold news items > 1 year old. Gulf of Mexico science and education news (e.g., publications, discoveries, programs).
107 New Species of Marine Life Discovered in Gulf of Mexico
Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the release of a new study report, Investigations of Chemosynthetic Communities on the Lower Continental Slope of the Gulf of Mexico. This is the result of a 5 year field study to discover and characterize sea floor communities that live in association with hydrocarbon seeps on Read More
Sea level rise impacts
NOAA Coastal Services Center Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts viewer is a teaching and planning tool that shows predicted sea levels on coastal communities under different rise scenarios — http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slrviewer Read More
Hypoxia report
LUMCON reports on size of Gulf of Mexico low-oxygen “dead zone” for Summer 2014– http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/08/low_oxygen_dead_zone_covers_50.html Read More
Ocean monitoring study
LSU-led team receives funds from BOEM for cost-benefit analysis of ocean and coastal observing and monitoring — story at http://theadvocate.com/home/7757061-125/researchers-to-study-cost-benefits#.UsLqe1QJVzo.email Read More
Science publication
New book edited by former Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council director, Dr. S. Bortone, entitled Interrelationships between Corals and Fisheries, published by CRC Press. Available at http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466588318. Volume includes chapter 9 by GOMURC director, AN Shepard, “Restoring deepwater coral ecosystems and fisheries after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” Read More
FIO summer adventure
FIO is leading new annual multi-institutional summer course, Field Studies in Marine Science/Biology; 5-week, field-intensive course designed to expand student knowledge of the biodiversity, geochemistry, and human impact of Florida’s coastal and offshore ecosystems– http://www.fio.usf.edu/education/summer-course-2014. Read More
IPCC report
House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing on IPCC report on May 29, 11a ET (webcast)– http://science.house.gov/hearing/full-committee-hearing-examining-un-intergovernmental-panel-climate-change-process. IPCC report is at http://www.ipcc.ch Read More
Ocean and coast economy publication
National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) latest “State of the U.S. Ocean and Coastal Economies 2014” highlights value of the oceans, Great Lakes and coasts of the U.S., availble at http://www.oceaneconomics.org/download/ Read More
Gulf of Mexico atlas
Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas to be an easy-to-use resource for a wide variety of Gulf of Mexico data; 235 map plates covering more than 70 topics. Explore at: http://gulfatlas.noaa.gov/. Read More