AMAP Assessment 2015: Methane as an Arctic Climate Forcer (open access)

AMAP Assessment 2015: Methane as an Arctic Climate Forcer

This assessment report presents the results of the 2015 AMAP Assessment of Methane as an Arctic climate forcer. This is the first AMAP assessment dealing with this issues and complements a second assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone as Arctic climate forcers.
Date: 2005
Creator: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (open access)

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

This report provides information for policymakers, scientists and engineers in the field of climate change and reductions of CO2 emissions.
Date: 2005
Creator: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Changing Planet: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Annual Report, 2006 (open access)

Our Changing Planet: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Annual Report, 2006

Annual report of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program documenting activities and research, goals for the upcoming year, proposed budget considerations, and other information about the organization for fiscal year 2006.
Date: 2005
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Surgeon General Releases National Health Advisory on Radon (open access)

Surgeon General Releases National Health Advisory on Radon

A report about the dangers and issues with breathing Radon. It describes what Radon is.
Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community-Based Watershed Management: Lessons from the National Estuary Program (open access)

Community-Based Watershed Management: Lessons from the National Estuary Program

This document reports on approaches to watershed management undertaken by the 28 National Estuary Programs (NEPs), organizations dedicated to restoring and protecting coastal watersheds.
Date: February 2005
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining Overwater Visibility and Mixing Height Using Satellite and In-situ Measurements Over the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Determining Overwater Visibility and Mixing Height Using Satellite and In-situ Measurements Over the Gulf of Mexico

Technical summary report of the causes of atmospheric pollutants resulting in reduced visibility in coastal National Parks and Wilderness Areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: February 2005
Creator: Hsu, S. A. & Huh, O. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2005 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2005

Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on management of the U.S.-Mexico border's water resources.
Date: February 2005
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interactions Between Migrating Birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Final Report (open access)

Interactions Between Migrating Birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Final Report

Report of the influence of oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on the spring and fall migration of birds.
Date: February 2005
Creator: Russell, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Spatial and Temporal Vulnerability of Pelagic Fish Assemblages in the Gulf of Mexico to Surface Oil Spills Associated With Deepwater Petroleum Development (open access)

Potential Spatial and Temporal Vulnerability of Pelagic Fish Assemblages in the Gulf of Mexico to Surface Oil Spills Associated With Deepwater Petroleum Development

This study was undertaken to review the available information on the distributions of these pelagic fish species in order to predict the spatial and temporal distributions of larval, juvenile and adult life history stages within the surface waters over an area likely to experience increasing gas and petroleum extraction.
Date: February 2005
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Oil and Gas Development: A Current Awareness Bibliography, 2000-2004 (open access)

Effects of Oil and Gas Development: A Current Awareness Bibliography, 2000-2004

The report is providing current awareness in all aspects of offshore oil and gas development. Sixteen quarterly issues were prepared from January 2001 to October 2004 that contained approximately 2,250 citations.
Date: March 2005
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interactions Between Migrating birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Structures Off the Louisiana Coast (open access)

Interactions Between Migrating birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Structures Off the Louisiana Coast

Technical summary report of the influence of oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on the spring and fall migration of birds.
Date: March 2005
Creator: Russell, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visibility and Atmospheric Dispersion Capability over the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Estimations and Observations of Boundary Layer Parameters (open access)

Visibility and Atmospheric Dispersion Capability over the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Estimations and Observations of Boundary Layer Parameters

Final report of the causes of atmospheric pollutants resulting in reduced visibility of coastal National Parks and Wilderness Areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: March 2005
Creator: Hsu, S. A. & Blanchard, B. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workshop on Socioeconomic Research Issues for the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region (open access)

Workshop on Socioeconomic Research Issues for the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region

The objective was to provide guidance for studies planning for the next five years. The workshop began with the premise that much has been accomplished during the last decade of MMS socioeconomic research and that it is time to assess future directions for the program. The workshop sought advice, rather than consensus, on key questions, useful analytical approaches, and critical information needs.
Date: March 2005
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge Oxygen Demand in the Development of Hypoxia (open access)

Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge Oxygen Demand in the Development of Hypoxia

This summary report on anthropogenic coastal hypoxia compares the contribution of organic carbon water discharge from The Mississippi River system with the products of oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Rabalais, Nancy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling Structure Removal Processes in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Modeling Structure Removal Processes in the Gulf of Mexico

The purpose of this report is to describe the operational aspects of removal processes in the GOM and to develop a production-based model to forecast the removal of offshore structures.
Date: May 2005
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current (open access)

Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current

This report is about the status of existing reduced dimensional models of the dynamics of the Louisiana Coastal Current. Local, wind-driven models reproduce credibly the flow variability during the winter season.
Date: June 2005
Creator: United States. Coastal Marine Institute.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at CMI Study Platforms: Developing Survey Design and Quality Assurance for Artificial Substrate Studies (open access)

Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at CMI Study Platforms: Developing Survey Design and Quality Assurance for Artificial Substrate Studies

Report summary that investigated and analyzed algal fouling of three offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico in order to develop efficient and effective guidelines for future, wider area, long-term studies of algal fouling.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Carney, Robert S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico

Summary report on a project that used twelve different statistics to develop a climatology of currents in the Gulf of Mexico. The results are advantageous for planning future programs, providing information for environmental impact statements, furthering additional studies, and guiding oil and gas exploration.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Vukovich, Fred M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico, Final Report (open access)

Climatology of Ocean Features in the Gulf of Mexico, Final Report

Final research report project that used twelve different statistics to develop a climatology of currents in the Gulf of Mexico. The results are advantageous for planning future programs, providing information for environmental impact statements, furthering additional studies, and guiding oil and gas exploration.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Vukovich, Fred M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding the Processes that Maintain the Oxygen Levels in the Deep Gulf of Mexico: Synthesis Report (open access)

Understanding the Processes that Maintain the Oxygen Levels in the Deep Gulf of Mexico: Synthesis Report

Technical report generated as a result of a grant with the goal of understanding oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico at depths greater than 400 meters
Date: June 2005
Creator: Jochens, Ann E.; Bender, Leslie C.; DiMarco, Steven F.; Morse, John W.; Kennicutt, Mahlon C.; Howard, Matthew K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
EPA Toxicological Review of Zinc and Compounds (open access)

EPA Toxicological Review of Zinc and Compounds

A peer-reviewed research report supporting the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) summary of the hazards related to chronic exposure to zinc and zinc compounds.
Date: July 2005
Creator: Choudbury, Harlal; Stedeford, Todd; Donohue, Joyce; Ingerman, Lisa; Osier, Mark; Fransen, Margaret et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge in the Development of Hypoxia (open access)

Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge in the Development of Hypoxia

The objective of this analysis is to evaluate the relative contribution of produced water organic and nutrient compounds in relation to those of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya discharges in the context of hypoxia formation on the continental shelf.
Date: July 2005
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone - Chapter 213 Rules. TSMS Version (open access)

Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone - Chapter 213 Rules. TSMS Version

This report amends and updates the geographic areas that are regulated under the Edwards Aquifer Protection Program in Texas. Using Digital Geospatial Metadata, a GIS layer is added to reflect the changes in land boundaries and the re-designation of areas as transition zones, contributing zones, and recharge zones; the result will serve as a replacement for hard copy maps of the area.
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2004 (open access)

Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2004

Annual report of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) describing the program and data collection. It also presents information on air quality and recorded concentrations of pollutants such as ozone, sulfur, gases, and other elements of concern.
Date: November 2005
Creator: MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library