The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management promotes energy independence, environmental protection and economic development through responsible, science-based management of offshore conventional and renewable energy and marine mineral resources.
Offshore renewable energy development currently is underway in the north Atlantic and is in the planning stages in the Gulf of Maine (GoMe). BOEM must evaluate the cumulative effects of offshore wind...more
The purpose of this study is to evaluate impacts to rocky shore species from OCS activities. The rocky intertidal areas established by the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe) represent...more
Congress is considering amending the OCS Lands Act to authorize wind energy and marine minerals activities offshore U.S. Territories (see S. 3214; H.R. 1689). If this amendment is approved, it will...more
The purpose of this study is to understand and predict how potential impacts from offshore energy development and climate change may interact to affect commercial fisheries, and to develop mitigation...more
The National Environmental Policy Act requires BOEM to consider the environmental impacts of proposed actions before making decisions that significantly affect the quality of the human environment,...more
Offshore construction activities routinely involve sound and vibration-generating activities, such as pile driving. Little is known about the effects of substrate-borne, vibroacoustic disturbances on...more
This proposed study is to make measurements and investigate the physical characteristics and propagation of substrate-borne mechanical waves through seabed from offshore wind facility construction...more
Currently, many BOEM-funded marine minerals field studies produce results based on data collected in a discrete, ecologically arbitrary footprint (i.e., a dredge or leasing area) over a relatively...more
Submerged pre-contact sites on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) are difficult to identify and confirm using traditional mapping technologies and BOEM’s current survey guidelines. BOEM errs on...more
The Republic of Rwanda has been picked as one of the six African countries as beneficiaries for a new fellowship fund program designed at supporting social entrepreneurs in tackling issues on food security.