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... Team members plan to develop a science-based framework to prioritize restoration projects that provide the greatest returns for people and nature. Expanding ecosystem service provisioning from coastal restoration to minimize environmental and energy constraints – $148,000 Project Director: John Day, Ph.D., Louisiana State University David Dismukes, Ph.D., Christopher D'Elia, Ph.D., Robert Lane, Ph.D., and David Batker, Louisiana State University Researchers will examine how healthy ecosystems support healthy and resilient Gulf communities through benefits such as improved water quality, sustainable fisheries and recreation, and better storm protection.
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... Linking energy-production technologies to human health protection: A "to and through" approach to the interdisciplinary training of a middle-skilled workforce – $125,000 Project Director: Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H., Tulane University Roy Rando, Sc.D., and Jeffrey Wickliffe, Ph.D., Tulane University Derrick Manns, Ph.D., Alvin Justelien III, Ph.D., and Sonia Fanguy-Clarke, D.N.P., Fletcher Technical Community College Carl Moore, South Central Louisiana Technical College The project team will work to build a safer workforce in southeastern Louisiana by identifying key environmental health and disaster management skills and teaching them to community college students and current workers in oil production, marine operations, and nursing fields. The effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on human well-being in the Gulf of Mexico – $118,000 Project Director: Paul Montagna, Ph.D., Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi David Yoskowitz, Ph.D., and Cristina Carollo, Ph.D., Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi Researchers plan to develop a better understanding of how offshore oil and gas production affects the links between human well-being and offshore ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico.
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... Developing a decision support tool to evaluate ecosystem services and associated uncertainties using a Bayesian belief network – $124,000 Project Director: Wei Wu, Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi This project proposes to develop a tool that integrates knowledge from both natural and social sciences and quantifies uncertainties to help resource managers in the Gulf of Mexico understand how ecosystems -- and the benefits they provide to people -- may change as a result of different management decisions (such as developing offshore oil and gas or restoring coastal wetlands)
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... Radcliff, Ph.D., and Hongwei Zhao, Sc.D., Texas A&M University Health Science Center Socially vulnerable groups who live in hazard-prone coastal areas such as the Gulf Coast are disproportionally at risk from both natural and technological disasters such as oil spills. The project researchers plan to integrate publicly available federal data and individual medical claims data in order to conduct a large-scale evaluation of the effects of disasters on the health status and health system utilization of Medicare beneficiaries living in coastal Gulf communities.
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... Putman, Ph.D., Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami Biological connectivity can facilitate the propagation of impacts due to environmental and anthropogenic stressors from local to regional scales, posing significant challenges for ecosystem management and protection of species. To address these challenges and to help guide the management and protection of sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico, the project research team plans to synthesize sea turtle distribution and abundance data with key oceanographic data to advance our understanding of how human activities influence the distribution and abundance of mobile marine species.
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... Gardner Page 4: Photo by Christopher Michel Page 5: ©iStock/ideeone Pages 6-7: ©iStock/Levranii Page 15: Gulf Research Program/B. Mabee Page 16: ©iStock/NetaDegany Page 17: ©iStock/nielubieklonu Page 18:  NASA image courtesy Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Team Page 19: ©iStock/stretchc Page 20: Photograph by Kelly M
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... Over its 30-year duration, the Gulf Research Program will work to enhance oil system safety and the protection of human health and the environment in the Gulf of Mexico and other U.S. outer continental shelf areas by seeking to improve understanding of the region's interconnecting human, environmental, and energy systems and fostering application of these insights to benefit Gulf communities, ecosystems, and the nation.
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