Physical/Biological Oceanographic Integration Workshop for the DeSoto Canyon and Adjacent Shelf

Physical/Biological Oceanographic Integration Workshop
for the DeSoto Canyon and Adjacent Shelf

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, announces the availability of a new study report, Physical/Biological Oceanographic Integration Workshop for the DeSoto Canyon and Adjacent Shelf.

This report contains the results of the Physical/Biological Oceanographic Integration Workshop for the DeSoto Canyon and Adjacent Shelf, held October 19-21, 1999, in Mobile, Alabama. Speakers presented information pertaining to two studies: the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanography Program and the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Program. The presentations laid the groundwork for working group discussions and each group’s significant conclusions. The members of each working group were asked to use the information syntheses provided by the speakers, combined with their own expertise, to (1) identify the critical components and processes that need to be delineated, measured, and modeled in order to understand the important physical and biological phenomena that occur in the DeSoto Canyon and adjacent continental shelf region; (2) identify significant knowledge and/or data gaps germane to these components and processes; and (3) formulate recommendations for research elements, on the basis of the results from items 1 and 2. These discussions will be used to assist MMS in designing an integrated physical and biological study to complete the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanography Program and the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Program.

For more information about this study or the Environmental Studies Program in general, contact the Environmental Sciences Section (MS 5430), 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394, telephone (504) 736-2752.

You can obtain copies of the report from the Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, at no charge by referencing OCS Study MMS 2000-074. 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.

Minerals Management Service
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region
Public Information Office (MS 5034)
1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394
Telephone requests may be placed at
(504) 736-2519, 1-800-200-GULF, or
FAX: (504) 736-2620

U.S. Department of Commerce
National Technical Information Service
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, Virginia 22161
(703) 487-4650 or FAX: (703) 321-8547
Rush Orders: 1-800-336-4700

The MMS, a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is the federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf. The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses more than $5 billion per year in revenues from federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on federal and Indian lands.