NRC Call for Nominations: Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico
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The Ocean Studies Board of the U.S. National Research Council is soliciting nominations for individuals to serve on its new study committee charged with assessing the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico. The statement of task for this study is attached and appended below.
We request your suggestions regarding potential nominees to this ad hoc study committee. In particular, we are looking for nominations in the following areas of expertise: oil spill response, marine ecology, coastal and wetlands ecology, organismal biology and toxicology, resource economics, social science, oceanography, coastal sedimentary processes, fisheries, and ecosystem modeling. Other areas of expertise will be considered based on submissions.
This study is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
If you would like to nominate someone to serve on this committee, please use the attached form (below) and provide his/her name, institution, area of expertise, contact information, and any other comments no later than October 25, 2010. You may either email (jjustice@nas.edu) or fax (202-334-2885) this form to me. We hope that you will also forward this note to others who may have suggestions for committee membership.
On behalf of the Ocean Studies Board, I want to thank you in advance for your contribution to this important activity. Although not all suggestions will result in membership on the committee, this process helps ensure that the committee is drawn from a broad pool of qualified experts.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Justice
Senior Program Assistant
- View Statement of Task (Adobe PDF)
- View Nominations form (Adobe PDF)
