Chronological List of NEGOM OCS Studies Publications
From the USGS Coastal Ecology & Conservation Research Group

Weaver, D. C., K. J. Sulak, W. Smith-Vaniz, and S. W. Ross. 1999.  Community structure and trophic relationships of demersal reef fishes of the Mississippi-Alabama outer continental shelf.  Pp. 286-292, In: Proceedings Seventeenth Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, Kenner, LA, December 1997, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA, OCS Study MMS 99-0042 (M. McKay and J. Nides, eds.).

Gardner, J. V., K. J. Sulak, P. Dartnell, L. Hellequin, B. Calder, and L. A. Mayer. 2000.  The bathymetry and acoustic backscatter of the Pinnacles area, northern Gulf of Mexico.  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2000-350, 35 pp.

Weaver, D. C., and K. J. Sulak.  2000. Trophic subsidies in the twilight zone: Food web structure of deep reef fishes along the Mississippi-Alabama outer continental shelf.  Pp. 203-208, In: Proceedings: Eighteenth Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, Kenner, LA, December 1998, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA, OCS Study MMS 2000-030 (M. McKay and J. Nides, eds.).

Gardner, J. V., P. Dartnell, K. J. Sulak, B. Calder, and L. Hellequin. 2001a. Physiography and late Quaternary-Holocene Processes of northeastern Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf off Mississippi and Alabama. Gulf of Mexico Science 2001(2):132-157.

Gardner, J. V., L. A. Mayer, J. E. Hughes Clarke, P. Dartnell, and K. J. Sulak. 2001b.   The bathymetry and acoustic backscatter of the mid shelf and upper slope off Panama City, Florida, northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Cruise Report, RV Moana Wave, Cruise M1-01-GM, September 3, through October 12, 2001.  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-448, 60 pp.

Gardner, J. V., P. Dartnell, and K. J. Sulak.  2002a. Multibeam mapping of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico.  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF02-5, CD-ROM; online at: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/openfile/of02-5.

Gardner, J. V., P. Dartnell, and K. J. Sulak.  2002b.  Multibeam mapping of the Pinnacles Region, Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF02-6, CD-ROM; online at: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/openfile/OF02-6.

Weaver, D. C. G. D. Dennis III, and. K. J. Sulak.  2002. Community structure and trophic ecology of demersal fishes on the Pinnacles Reef tract. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.G. Geological Survey Biological Sciences Report USGS BSR 2001-0008; Minerals Management Service, OCS Study MMS-2002-034.

Gardner, J. V., J. E. Hughes Clark, L. A. Mayer, and P. Dartnell. 2003.  Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter of the mid and outer continental shelf, head of DeSoto Canyon, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico – Data, images, and GIS.  USGS Open-File Report )F03-007, CD-ROM; online at:  http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/openfile/OF03-007.

Lyczkowski-Shultz, J., D. S. Hanisko, G. D. Dennis, III, and K. J. Sulak. 2004.  Characterization of ichthyoplankton within the U.S. Geological Survey's Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Study Area. Based on analysis of Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) sampling surveys, 1982-1999. USGS Scientific Investigation Report (SIR) 2004-5059 (USGS CEC NEGOM Program Investigation Report No. 2004-02, April 2004) available in CD-ROM format and online in Adobe^® .pdf and .html formats at: http://cars.er.usgs.gov/coastaleco/

Thurman, P, R. McBride, G. D. Dennis, III, and K. J. Sulak. 2004.  Age and reproduction in three reef-dwelling serranid fishes of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf: Pronotogrammus martinicensis, Hemanthias vivanus & Serranus phoebe (with preliminary observations on the Pomacentrid fish, Chromis enchrysurus.  USGS Outer Continental Shelf Ecosystem Studies Program Report, USGS Scientific Investigation Report (SIR) 2004-5162 (USGS CEC NEGOM Program Investigation Report No. 2004-03, May 2004), available in CD-ROM format and online in Adobe^® .pdf and .html formats at: http://cars.er.usgs.gov/ 

Other Publications Resulting in Part
From NEGOM OCS Research Undertaken by the
USGS Coastal Ecology & Conservation Research Group

Quattrini, A. M., S. W. Ross, K. J. Sulak, A. M. Necaise, T. L. Casazza, and G. D. Dennis. 2004.  Marine fishes new to continental United States waters, North Carolina, and the Gulf of Mexico. Southeastern Naturalist 3(1):155-172.

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