This strategic plan has been prepared by the 13 federal agencies participating in the CCSP, with coordination by the CCSP staff under the leadership of Dr. Richard H. Moss. This strategic plan responds to the President's direction that climate change research activities be accelerated to provide the best possible scientific information to support public discussion and decision-making on climate-related issues.The plan also responds to Section 104 of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which mandates the development and periodic updating of a long-term national global change research plan coordinated through the National Science and Technology Council.This is the first comprehensive update of a strategic plan for U.S. global change and climate change research since the original plan for the U.S. Global Change Research Program was adopted at the inception of the program in 1989.

"This report assesses the strengths and limitations of climate models."

This report provides studies on greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric concentrations which focuses on questions raised by decision-makers regarding U.S. climate change.

"This report examines the development and use of scenarios in global climate change applications."

This document summarizes the Implementation Strategy for the North American Carbon Program.

Summary describing the work completed at Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson for 'Social and Economic Impacts of Outer Continental Shelf Activities on Individuals and Families'. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

A report documenting the role of waves and currents on sediment resuspension and eventually allow development and calibration of a suspended sediment module to be coupled to the hydrodynamic model.

Summary describing the work completed at Continental Shelf Associates, Inc for Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Information Resources Data Search and Literature Synthesis. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

Report summary describing the work completed at Louisiana State University, Center for Energy Studies for 'Changing Patterns of Ownership and Control in the Petroleum Industry: Implications for the Market for Oil and Gas Leases in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1983-1999'. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

A report of a study which examined the nature of OCS-related work and its impacts on the lifestyle of individuals and families and on the communities in which they live, including case studies of Morgan City and New Iberia, Louisiana.

The final report of a study of deepwater hard bottom communities on the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope.

Report summary describing the work completed at Louisiana State University for 'Deepwater Program: Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry in Houma.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

Summary describing the work completed at PBS&J for 'Study to Conduct National Register of Historic Places: Evaluations Submerged Sites on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

Summary describing the work completed at University of Alabama, Dauphin Island Sea Lab for 'Physical/Biological Oceanographic Integration Workshop for the DeSoto Canyon and Adjacent Shelf.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

This is a study to assess benthic impacts of drilling at four sites along the Gulf of Mexico's continental slope. Objectives studied are cuttings accumulations, seabed changes from anchors and mooring systems, debris accumulations, chemical modification of sediments, and effects on benthic organisms.

A report addressing the need for a comprehensive search and integration of environmental and socioeconomic data for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

"The fundamental concern of the program was the effect that development of offshore energy reserves might have upon dense assemblages of deep-sea organisms, particularly chemosynthetic tubeworms, mussels, and clams, as well as fish and crustaceans, that live in association with them."

Summary describing the work completed at Louisiana State University, Center for Energy Studies for Accounting for Economic Change in the Gulf of Mexico: Developing a Comparative Context for Regional Economic Analysis and History. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

Summary describing the work completed at Texas A & M University for 'Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitats and Benthic Ecology Study.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

This study follows the regulatory requirements by the MMS and FWS in assessing the construction of building and wind turbines effects on marine bird populations.

The final report of a study examining the nature of OCS-related work and its impacts on the lifestyles of individuals and families and on the communities in which they live.

The purpose of this study was undertaken in order to provide criteria and concepts for improved interpretation of sea floor geology and habitats of sensitive benthic communities.

A study examining the topography, geology, geophysics, currents, hydrography, chemistry and biota of the Northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope.

Summary describing the work completed at ICF International for 'Five-Year Meteorological Datasets for CALMET/CALPUFF and OCD5 Modeling of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Region.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.