U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service Gulf of Mexico OCS Region

An Observational Study of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Coastal Plume
Final Report

OCS Report MMS 98-0040

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, announces the availability of a new study report, An Observational Study of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Coastal Plume: Final Report.

The scientific report finds there are two phases in the direction the discharges of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers take when they enter the Gulf. Most of the year the discharges flow downcoast, but in summer they reverse. The new report describes the range of phytoplankton sizes in the Gulf. It also identifies and enumerates the zooplankton community over the mid- to Outer Continental Shelf. Scientists also investigated the kinds of pollution in Gulf waters and described their distribution.

For more information about the Environmental Studies Program, contact the Environmental Sciences Section (MS 5430), 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394, telephone (504) 736-2789.

You can obtain copies of the report from the Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, at a charge of $25.00 by referencing OCS Study MMS 98-0040. You will be able to obtain this report also from the National Technical Information Service in the near future. Here are the addresses. You may also inspect copies at selected Federal Depository Libraries.

MMS is the Federal agency that manages the Nation's natural gas, oil, and other mineral resources on the OCS; and collects, accounts for, and last year disbursed about $6 billion in revenues from Federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on Federal and Indian lands.

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