From shorebirds to shallow deep water energy exploration, from critical habitat to hurricanes and the environmental protections that are built into the offshore energy exploration process, find out more about the Minerals Management Service at this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists meeting.

Visit the MMS exhibit (booth number 2) at SEJ, at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22 and 23 where the new “MMS Ocean Science” publication will be showcased.

If you won’t be attending the meeting and would like to know more about MMS in general or the “MMS Ocean Science” publication in particular, contact Rebecca Phipps in the MMS public affairs office at 202 208 3985 or becky.phipps@mms.gov.

Minerals Management Service is the federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation’s oil, natural gas, and other mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf in Federal offshore waters. The agency also collects, accounts for, and disburses mineral revenues from Federal and American Indian lands. MMS disbursed more than $8 billion in FY 2003 and more than $135 billion since the agency was created in 1982. Nearly $1 billion from those revenues go into the Land and Water Conservation Fund annually for the acquisition and development of state and Federal park and recreation lands.

Relevant Web Sites:
   MMS Main Website