90 



Table 9. Studies with soft-bottom benthic component. 



BASELINE STUDIES: 



1975-77 South Texas Outer Continental Shelf (STOCS) 

 1976-80 Texas Submerged Lands Studies (Bur. Econ. Geol.) 

 1983-86 Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Study 



OIL AND GAS RELATED ACTIVITIES STUDIES: 



1972-74 Offshore Ecology Investigation (OEI-GURC) 



1978-79 Central Gulf Platform Study 



1976-80 Buccaneer Gas and Oil Field Study 



1977-82 DOE Strategic Petroleum Reserve Program Bryan Mound West Hackberry (currently being 



sampled) Big Hill Texoma and Capline 

 1976 Rig Monitoring Studies 



1979-80 LXTOC and BURMAH AGATE Spills Effects 

 1981 Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Studies (LOOP) 



1985-86 Produced Water Discharges (API) 

 1989 Influence of Petroleum Activities in Areas of Hypoxia (MMS University Initiative, 



LUMCON) 



ADDITIONAL STUDIES: 



1960 Parker, Macroinvertebrates of the Northern Gulf of Mexico 



1985-86 Effects of Hypoxia on the Benthos (LUMCON) 



1987 Benthos of a Continental Shelf Influenced by the Mississippi River (LUMCON) 



