Above:  Luke Thompson, Ph.D., a researcher with the Northern Gulf Institute, collects samples of forams from a sediment trap aboard the R/V Pelican in November 2023 as part of a larger collaborative effort with the U.S. Geological Society (USGS) to examine marine snow and what microscopic life are comprising the biological carbon pump in the...Read More

The offshore oil and gas industry has installed approximately 40,000 miles of oil and gas pipelines in federal offshore waters since the 1940s, but since the 1960s, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has allowed the offshore oil and gas industry to leave 97 percent of pipelines (18,000 miles) on the seafloor...Read More