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History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry

Description: An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane; Carriker, Bob; McGuire, Tom; Pratt, Joseph; Priest, Tyler & Pulsipher, Allan G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cross-Shelf Exchange Processes and the Deepwater Circulation of the Gulf of Mexico: Dynamical Effects of Submarine Canyons and the Interactions of Loop Current Eddies with Topography

Description: This report is about the study of interactions of the Gulf of Mexico eddies with topography and the dynamical of submarine canyons in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: March 2004
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pay Secrecy

Description: This issue brief discusses pay secrecy policies that nearly half of workers nationally reported that they were either contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged from discussing their pay with their colleagues. Includes a listing of state laws that protect employees in discussing pay and compensation.
Date: June 2016
Creator: United States. Department of Labor.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Explosive Removal of Offshore Structures: Information Synthesis Report

Description: This report is about the explosive removal of offshore structures in aquatic environments. The scope is worldwide. The sensitive marine resources considered in this analysis include marine fishes, marine turtles, and marine mammals.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Continental Shelf Associates, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects

Description: This survey report discusses deepwater projects centered in the Gulf Coast. Their study is interested in vendors or contractors supplying the equipment used on the deck and process in extracting oil. The authors are also interested in the socioeconomic effects of the oil extracting on local communities.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Stiff, John J. & Singelmann, Joachim
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survival of a Hydrogen-Utilizing Bacterium when Introduced into Native and Foreign Environments

Description: Report detailing a bioremediation experiment in which laboratory grown cultures of the Acinetobacter were re-introduced to an experimental flow-through marsh environment. "The body of this report focuses on the competitive studies performed on the Acinetobacter sp., which actually was the second half of the project. The development of the molecular tools that were used is presented as a reprint in Appendix A."
Date: December 2001
Creator: LaRock, Paul A. & Donovan, Lisa S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico

Description: This report is about the exploration of the possibility that the deep flow around the edges of the Gulf circulates in a cyclonic, or counter-clockwise direction. The existence of this flow was purely theoretical but this study shows that such is observed reliably.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Sturges, Wilton; Chassignet, Eric & Ezer, Tal
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of Ambient Pollutant Concentrations and Meteorological Conditions Affecting EPA Class I and II Areas in Southeastern Louisiana, Volume 2: Appendices

Description: Appendices containing data that was collected as apart of a study on pollutants in Southeastern Louisiana. The four appendices include: [A] Gosier Island Hourly Data, [B] Breton Island (Chandeleur Islander) Hourly Data, [C] Pass-A-Loutre Hourly Data, and [D] Radiosonde Data.
Date: December 1996
Creator: Hsu, S. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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