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 OCS Scientific Committee
1999 Meeting Summary - ANIMIDA - Artic Nearshore Impact
Monitoring In Development Area Session: MMS’s Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program
Dick Prentki |
Dr. Cleve Cowles, Chief, Environmental Studies Section, Alaska, explained
that ANIMIDA is a multi-year, multidisciplinary study to monitor impacts associated with
development activities and initial production of oil from the Northstar and Liberty Units
in the nearshore portion of the Alaska OCS in the Beaufort Sea. Phase I is a 1.5-year
program and will include a focused literature review, monitoring for physical
environmental parameters (sediment quality, resuspension of sediments, underwater noise
and vibration), a workshop, and developing and ranking Phase II studies. Phase II is
anticipated as an expanded additional four-year monitoring program, which will provide a
basis of continuity and consistency in evaluation of potential impacts of upcoming
development and production in the Beaufort Sea. The project will be closely coordinated
with related ongoing MMS-managed studies and studies being conducted under the
MMS/University of Alaska Fairbanks cooperative Coastal Marine Institute. A contract was
awarded to Arthur D. Little, Inc. June 30, 1999, to perform Phase I tasks and to serve as
Program Manager for the duration of the study. Total estimated cost of the ANIMIDA
multi-year monitoring project is estimated to be $3,067,000 through Fiscal Year 2003. |
Steve Murray |
For more information, contact Julie Reynolds.
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