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This link provides more
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BOEMRE's mission, organization, and about the Gulf
of Mexico Region.
Archaeologists, Marine Biologists, Oceanographers, and more! Read about the
diversity of careers and people in the Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
Career Opportunities for the Gulf of
Mexico Region - provides information on student programs,
current vacancies, job benefits, the hiring process, and recruiting
dates.
Federal Job
Opportunities - Office of Personnel Management Site
This link accesses the Federal job website, where hundreds of job opportunities are
listed.
Teaching materials and resources suitable for classroom activity and discussion.
Posters and
Teacher's Companions:
Description and Ordering Information
Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image of the poster or to
download the teacher's companion. For
easy display, all posters are single sided and measure about 24 by 30
inches. The companions are in a
three-hole punched, loose-leaf format for easy reproduction and filing.
Whales and
Dolphins of the Gulf of Mexico |
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This
Poster
has photos and descriptions of many of the whales
and dolphins found in the Gulf of Mexico. While many are familiar
with the common bottlenose dolphin, since it can be found near
shore, people are amazed to discover that killer whales
and sperm
whales call the Gulf home. |
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The
Teacher's Companion provides information on the
Gulf's whale and dolphin species and
describes governmental protection of these animals.
Suggested activities for the
classroom are included.
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Historic Shipwrecks of the
Gulf of Mexico |
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This
Poster
features some of the fascinating historic shipwrecks that have been
identified in the Gulf of Mexico through oil and gas
industry-related surveys. The
poster can
be used to promote classroom discussions about commerce, maritime
transportation, technology, historic preservation of marine cultural
resources, scientific investigative techniques, and environmental
issues. |
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The
Teacher's
Companion is an instructional resource for the Sidewheel Steamship Josephine
that contains easy to understand information about commerce, maritime
transportation, technology, historic preservation of marine cultural
resources, scientific investigative techniques, and environmental
issues followed by questions and classroom activities.
Vocabulary terms and a list of
supplemental resources are also included. |
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Chemistry in the Gulf of Mexico
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This
Poster
depicts chemical processes occurring in the Gulf of Mexico
and identifies these chemical processes that have been
studied through scientific research funded by
BOEMRE. |
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The Teacher's Companion
is a teacher’s instructional guide to accompany the poster of the
same title. In this guide, you will find information that
relates principles from a basic chemistry class to actual processes
occurring in the ocean. This guide will focus on four of these
processes. The information and activities are intended for use
at the 11th to 12th grade levels. Additional topics and
resources are included at the end of the guide. |
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Islands of
Life |
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This
Poster depicts many of the forms
of animal marine life that grow on and around the thousands of oil
and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The poster
demonstrates that marine life and Federal offshore production not
only coexist, but that the manmade offshore structures provide an
artificial reef system that fosters and intensifies marine life in
areas where it might not otherwise proliferate. |
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The
Teacher's Companion
to the “Islands of Life” poster is for teachers wanting to introduce
their students to a unique aspect of the Gulf of Mexico. While
the Gulf is one of our Nation’s greatest fisheries resources, it is
also an important source of the Nation’s energy. Several
thousand oil and gas production facilities located on the U.S.
continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico make up the largest
artificial island and reef system in the world, and an entire
generation of Gulf Coast citizens now depends on them for energy,
food, and recreation. |
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Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oases |
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This
Poster
highlights and describes various seafloor habitats that exist in the
Gulf and the geology that drives them, as well as the abundant
marine animals associated with these extraordinary ecosystems.
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The
Teacher's Companion
contains an astonishing colorful display and explanation of three
topographic features. Activities are designed for grades 6-12. It is
an instructional guide to accompany the poster of the same title. In
this guide, you will find information that focuses on the various
seafloor habitats and the geology that drives them, as well as the
marine animals associated with these extraordinary systems.
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Chemosynthetic
Communities in the Gulf of Mexico |
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This
Poster
brings students to the floor of the
Gulf to discover remarkable deep-sea animals that literally live on
dissolved gases. These recently
discovered chemosynthetic communities consist of tube worms and
mussels that live in areas of natural oil and gas seepage.
Within these organisms live
symbiotic bacteria that convert methane and hydrogen sulfide into
food. In this way, the tube worms
and mussels provide a home for the bacteria, while the bacteria
provide these animals with an energy supply.
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The
Teacher's Companion introduces the
concept of chemosynthetics to students at the middle and high school
level. It contains a glossary of
terms, examples of different chemosynthetic communities, and a
crossword puzzle. |
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Geologic Secrets Revealed: The New Millennium in the Gulf of
Mexico |
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This
Poster focuses on the search for energy
resources, including oil, natural gas, and gas hydrates, on
and deep below the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico.
The poster will help grades 11-12
learn how drilling data, geophysical (seismic) data, and information
gained through the study of tiny
microfossils and nannofossils enable scientists to identify and
explore for potential hydrocarbon traps
many thousands of feet below the seafloor. Highlighted
also are advancements in technology that increase the ability
to explore for oil and gas in offshore areas that were
previously inaccessible, both in terms of water depth and drilling
depths below the seafloor. |
Classroom Activities
Activity Sheets
- A
collection of 2 page classroom activity sheets for elementary students
that may be printed for distribution. These include:
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Ballast & Stability Lab Experiment
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What is Crude Oil
- Word Puzzle
- Offshore Oil & Gas Platform
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Maze
- Rigs as Reefs
Drilling For Oil Game -
Easy to follow instructions that show how to construct and
conduct a classroom activity that allows students to "drill for
oil." This activity can be adopted for use at any age level, and in conjunction with lessons on
geology, geography, the environmental sciences, and math. It can also be used as a fun activity for younger children.
Feature Articles:
MMS Supports Diversity Through Scholarships and Internships
- Minerals Management Service is searching for
the next generation of engineers by sponsoring Fort Valley State University’s
Cooperative Development Energy Program,
http://www.fvsu.edu/cdep.asp?mnu=sub2&Prm=57, through a cooperative agreement
established in 2002. FVSU is in Fort Valley, Georgia. The CDEP program
recruits, educates, and graduates academically talented minorities and women in
the fields of geosciences, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and
biology.
California Students Discover Louisiana Wetlands through JASON Expedition
- Nutria and crawfish of the Louisiana wetlands met the island fox and pacific rockfish of California at the February 2005 JASON Project live broadcasts in Ventura County, California.
Educational
Outreach - BOEMRE gets into the Science Symposium in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, with a
splash!
Marine Mammals
- The Gulf of Mexico - Home to Whales and Dolphins.
Chemosynthetic Communities
- Unusual
tube worms that live in the Gulf's deep waters.
Flower Garden Banks
- A coral
reef offshore Texas waters.
Rig Diving
- Photo story of SCUBA diving around the
offshore platforms ("rigs") in the Gulf of Mexico.
Environmental Studies Program Information System
(ESPIS): BOEMRE-sponsored environmental research projects.
Look here to find common terms used in the oil and gas
industry.
Try these sites for more information.
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