The Minerals Management Service Pacific OCS Region supports a wide variety of research
in the ocean and coastal environment through a cooperative agreement with the University
of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). The Coastal Marine Institute (CMI) at UCSB supports
research of interest to MMS and other government agencies through a cost sharing
arrangement. Since 1989, more than 70 research projects have been supported in disciplines
ranging from social science to subcellular biology and numerical modeling of biological
systems.
Scientists from several campuses of the University of California and as far away as
Ohio State University have participated in this research program. Proposals for research
are reviewed through a rigorous peer review process and the results of research have been
published in major scientific journals.
The current CMI studies are listed in Current Environmental
Studies.
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