News and Annoucements

2019

May

Announcement of Research Opportunity and Call for Letters of Intent

2018

September

LSU, BOEM Renew Five-Year CMI Agreement

2017

May

Coastal Marine Institute Announces 2017 BOEM Research Grant Awards

  • "Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Impacts on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico". Principal Investigator is David Dismukes, Professor, LSU College of the Coast & Environment.
  • "Development of a Monitoring Program for Water Quality and Biogeochemical Processes of Louisiana Sediment Borrow Areas". Co-Principal Investigators are Kehui (Kevin) Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences and Kanchan Maiti, Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences

February

Announcement of Research Opportunity and Call for Letters of Intent

2016

October

Announcement of Research Opportunity and Call for Letters of Intent

April

Coastal Marine Institute Announces 2016 BOEM Research Grant Awards

  • "Economic and Geomorphic Comparison of OCS Sand vs. Nearshore Sand for Coastal Restoration Projects. " Principal Investigator is Rex Caffey, Professor, LSU AgCenter.
  • "Investigation of an Ancient Bald Cypress Forest in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA." Principal Investigator is Kristine DeLong, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Anthropology. Co-Principal Investigators are Sam Bentley, Professor, Department of Geology, and Kehui Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences.
  • "A Critical Real-Time Louisiana Coastal Ocean Observing Station." Principal Investigator is Chunyan Li, Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences. Co-Principal Investigators are Eurico D'Sa, Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, and Richard Shaw, Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences. 

2015

October

Announcement of Research Opportunity and Call for Letters of Intent

April

Coastal Marine Institute Announces 2015 BOEM Research Grant Awards

  • "Economic and Geomorphic Comparison of OCS Sand vs. Nearshore Sand for Coastal Restoration Projects." Principal Investigator is Rex Caffey, Professor, LSU AgCenter.
  • "Investigation of an Ancient Bald Cypress Forest in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA." Principal Investigator is Kristine DeLong, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Anthropology. Co-Principal Investigators are Sam Bentley, Professor, Department of Geology, and Kehui Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences.
  • "A Critical Real-Time Louisiana Coastal Ocean Observing Station." Principal Investigator is Chunyan Li, Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences. Co-Principal Investigators are Eurico D'Sa, Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, and Richard Shaw, Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences.

2014

November

Announcement of Research Opportunity and Call for Letters of Intent

April

Coastal Marine Institute Announces 2014 BOEM Research Grant Awards

  • "Empirical Analysis of the OCS Pipeline Network in the Gulf of Mexico." Principal Investigator is Mark Kaiser, Professor, LSU Center for Energy Studies. Co-Principal Investigator is Allan Pulsipher, Executive Director and Marathon Oil Company Professor of Energy Policy, LSU Center for Energy Studies.
  • "Delineating Areas of Enhanced Sediment Accumulation in the Northern Gulf of Mexico." Principal Investigator is Kanchan Maiti, Assistant Professor, LSU Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Co-Principal Investigators are John White, Associate Professor, LSU Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, and Ronald DeLaune, Professor, LSU Department of Oceanography &Coastal Sciences.
  • "A Survey of State Sponsored Oil Spill Research Relevant to the Regulation of Offshore Oil and Gas Development." Principal Investigator is Allan Pulsipher, Executive Director and Marathon Oil Company Professor of Energy Policy, LSU Center for Energy Studies. Co-Principal Investigator is Kathy Perry, Research Associate, LSU Center for Energy Studies.
  • "Assessment of Mud-Capped Dredge Pit Evolution on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Northern Gulf of Mexico." Principal Investigator is Kehui Xu , James P. Morgan Distinguished Professor, LSU Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Co-Principal Investigators are Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., Billy & Ann Harrison Chair of Sedimentology, LSU Geology & Geophysics, and Chunyan Li, Assistant Professor, LSU Coastal Studies Institute and Department of Oceanography and Coastal Studies.

March

LSU, BOEM Renew Five-Year CMI Agreement

Louisiana State University (LSU) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have signed a memorandum of agreement to continue the Coastal Marine Institute (CMI) program through December 2018. The agreement, the fifth five-year contract between BOEM and the state since the initiation of the CMI program in 1992, sets out the general terms for continuing the program at LSU, namely to

  • Collect and disseminate environmental information needed for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy and mineral decisions;
  • Address local and regional OCS related environmental and resource issues of mutual interest;
  • Strengthen the BOEM-LSU-State partnerships in addressing OCS energy and mineral information needs.

Under the direction of Professor David Dismukes, CMI coordinates university research in response to federal and state information needs regarding OCS development of the oil and gas industry, including environmental responses to changing energy extraction and transport technologies, analyses and synthesis of existing data/information from previous studies, and modeling of environmental, social, and economic processes.

2013

November

Announcement of Research Opportunity and Call for Letters of Intent

May

CMI has announced the following research grants awarded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for 2013. Funding for the three projects totals approximately $1 million.

  • "Mass Wasting Processes and Products of the Mississippi Delta Front: Data Synthesis and Observation." Principal investigator is Samuel J. Bentley, Billy and Ann Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and director, LSU Coastal Studies Institute, LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics. Co-principal investigators are Kehui Xu, assistant professor, LSU Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, and Ioannis Georgiou, associate professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans.
  • "Gulf SERPENT: Continuing and expanding a deepwater biological observing system in the northern Gulf of Mexico." Principal investigator is Mark C. Benfield, professor, LSU Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences.
  • "The Economic Benefits of an Improved Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS)." Principal investigator is Richard F. Kazmierczak, Jr., professor of resource economics, LSU Department of Agricultural Economics. Co-principal investigators are J. Matthew Fannin, associate professor, Rex H. Caffey, professor, and Walter R. Keithly, Jr., associate professor, all with the LSU Department of Agricultural Economics.

 

 

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