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Summary of Grantees
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By incorporating information from relevant stakeholders and community leaders and mathematically modeling different oil spill scenarios, this system is intended to help coastal communities proactively plan effective responses to deep and ultra-deep water oil spills. Collaborative modeling with fuzzy cognitive maps: A novel approach to achieving safety culture – $407,000 Project Director: Antonie Jetter (Portland State University)
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Project Team Affiliations: Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi The project team plans to develop a framework that coastal decision makers can use to measure and track the socioeconomic impacts of offshore oil and gas operations in the context of environmental change and extreme weather. After reviewing relevant publications, conducting interviews and surveys, and holding focus groups with affected communities, the project team will create a formal societal impact assessment protocol that Gulf of Mexico communities can access online.
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The researchers will generate outputs that scientists, nonprofits, and government stakeholders can use to help communities respond to and recover from oil spills more effectively. Synthesizing ship tracking data, oil spill model results, and subsistence use information into a unique, interactive tool to aid research and planning in coastal communities bordering the Alaska Beaufort Sea – $530,000 Project Director: Molly McCammon (Alaska Ocean Observing System)
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COMPLETED OR IN PROGRESS IN 2016 Visit www.nas.edu/gulf/grants/funded-projects for more information about projects completed or in progress in 2016. 2015 Exploratory Grants Identifying critical middle-skilled positions and career pathways in the upstream oil and gas industry – $138,000 Project Team Affiliations: Houston Community College Status: Completed in 2016 Assessing long-term linkages between development of oil and gas industry–related coastal infrastructure, societal well-being, and ecosystem function in coastal Louisiana – $130,000 Project Team Affiliations: The Water Institute of the Gulf Status: Completed in 2016 Advancing optimization of ecosystem services to inform management and restoration of the Gulf of Mexico – $128,000 Project Team Affiliations: Stanford University in cooperation with University of Minnesota and The Nature Conservancy Status: In progress into 2017 Expanding ecosystem service provisioning from coastal restoration to minimize environmental and energy constraints – $148,000 Project Team Affiliations: Louisiana State University Status: Completed in 2016 30 THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2016
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Status: Completed in 2016 Developing a decision-support tool to evaluate ecosystem services and associated uncertainties using a Bayesian belief network – $124,000 Project Team Affiliations: University of Southern Mississippi Status: In progress into 2017 2015 Synthesis Grants Understanding the trajectory of coastal salt marsh structure, function, and processes in the face of sea-level rise: A synthesis from historical imagery, biophysical processes, and hierarchical modeling – $507,000 Project Team Affiliations: University of Southern Mississippi in cooperation with University of Georgia Status: In progress into 2017 THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2016 31
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The transport of oil to the coast in the top centimeter of the water column – $433,000 Project Team Affiliations: Florida State University Status: In progress into 2017 Living shorelines: Synthesizing the results of a decade of implementation in coastal Alabama – $469,000 Project Team Affiliations: Dauphin Island Sea Lab in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy and Northeastern University Status: In progress into 2017 Integrating visual and acoustic data on cetacean abundance and habitat in Gulf of Mexico deep water – $451,000 Project Team Affiliations: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Status: In progress into 2017 Utilizing secondary data to assess the health and health system impacts of natural and technological disasters in the Gulf – $181,000 Project Team Affiliations: Texas A&M University Health Science Center Status: In progress into 2017 Synthesizing spatial dynamics of recreational fish and fisheries to inform restoration strategies: Red drum in the Gulf of Mexico – $480,000 Project Team Affiliations: University of Florida in cooperation with Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute and Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Status: In progress into 2017 Quantifying environmental and anthropogenic drivers of sea turtle distribution and abundance in the Gulf of Mexico – $494,000 Project Team Affiliations: University of Central Florida in cooperation with University of Miami Status: In progress into 2017 Synthesis of historical observations using novel model approaches to improve understanding and predictability of deep Gulf of Mexico circulation – $897,000 Project Team Affiliations: Florida State University in cooperation with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Florida State University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Leidos Corp., Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, and Tendral, LLC Status: In progress into 2017 Improved understanding of the northern Gulf of Mexico pelagic ecosystem: Integration, synthesis, and modeling of high-resolution zooplankton and fish data – $504,000 Project Team Affiliations: University of Maryland in cooperation with Oregon State University Status: In progress into 2017 32 THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2016
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Thank you to this entire community of amazing people for their time, service, and dedication working for the benefit of communities and ecosystems in the Gulf and beyond. About the Gulf Research Program In collaboration with others in the Gulf region and around the nation, the Gulf Research Program works to improve understanding of the connections among offshore energy production, the environment, and the people who depend on both.
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Over its 30-year duration, the Gulf Research Program will work to enhance oil system safety and the protection of human health and the environment in the Gulf of Mexico and other U.S. outer continental shelf areas by seeking to improve understanding of the region's interconnecting human, environmental, and energy systems and fostering application of these insights to benefit Gulf communities, ecosystems, and the nation.
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