NOAA’s National Ocean Service National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, in partnership with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is working to build on existing spatial planning capacity in the United States Gulf of Mexico region. Through a Request for Information issued during...Read More

On October 31, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it has finalized two Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the Gulf of Mexico, with the aggregate potential to produce enough clean wind energy to power nearly 3 million homes. The first WEA is located approximately 24 nautical miles (nm) off the coast of...Read More

New Research Explores the Influence of Deep-Sea Wooden Shipwrecks on Microbiome Diversity U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) marine archaeologists have studied shipwrecks in the northern Gulf of Mexico for many years.  New research recently published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography further explores the role that these shipwrecks serve as habitats, forming islands...Read More