... on the largest environment of our earth (about 60%) are obligatory before such industrial intrusions start. Even during the initial exploration phase on polymetallic nodules at the beginning of the 1970s, environmental studies were being conducted: Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Study (DOMES) and Metalliferous...

... experiments by many countries interested in deep seabed mining should be questioned. With limited resources for deep water environmental studies, the emphasis on disturber experiments is perplexing when basic biology of the potential mining sites is poorly characterized, designed experiments are poorly...

... technology tests was accompanied by limited environmental investigations. If one reflects upon the evolution of environmental thought and the functional stages of research in relation to deep ocean mining, several past, present, and future phases may be recognized. environmental study knowledge...

... Service (MMS) in making leasing decisions and will assure that offshore minerals are developed in a safe and environmentally sound manner. The MMS Office of International Activities and Marine Minerals is developing and procuring, through the MMS Environmental Studies Program, contracts to provide some...

... and environmental studies. There then follows an analysis of the resources available to the project both fiscal and in terms of available manpower. The programme is viewed in the wider context of Indian science and technology policy in general and the ocean sciences in particular, emphasising major factors which...

... ABSTRACT The environmental studies of the South Texas Outer Continental Shelf are part of a national program of environmental studies under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Land Management. The general purpose of the studies is to provide a base of environmental data and an understanding...

... district research foundation university oyster sustainability environmental study dredge discharge us government bouma army engineer district gulf coast estuary reef regulation environmental impact assessment discharge OFFSHORE TECHNCLGGY CO~FERENCE 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas...

... ABSTRACT Major offshore developments initiated or planned in recent years to ease the energy crisis include mono-buoys and docking islands for VLCCs and offshore nuclear power plants. Legislative requirements for environmental studies needed for licensing of such facilities is discussed...