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 OCS Scientific Committee Meeting Summary - Environmental
Studies Program Highlights - Pacific OCS Region
Dr. Fred Piltz, Environmental Studies Chief, reported on the Pacific OCS Region
activities:
 | Platform Fisheries Ecology Study. The U. S. Geological Survey, Biological
Resources Division has been conducting a study of the ecology of rockfish found around and
under oil and gas platforms in the Pacific OCS Region. Two years of fieldwork have been
completed and an interim progress report was published in 1999. A report on the results of
the first two years of field studies will be published this winter.
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| Biotechnology Initiative. The MMS recently signed a cooperative agreement with
the University of California Santa Barbara to begin research identifying possible
biologically active compounds in marine organisms found in the fouling communities on oil
and gas platforms. A similar cooperative agreement has been signed with Louisiana State
University.
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| Coastal Recreation and Tourism Inventory. The MMS Pacific OCS Region has entered
into a contract with the University of California Berkeley to extend the development of a
general model of beach valuation to the area of Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis
Obispo counties. The effort is structured in two phases with Phase I being concentrated on
the model development and Phase II with data collection and model output comparisons with
a similar effort being done in Los Angeles and Orange counties by the State of California.
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For more information, contact Julie Reynolds.
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