AASG/BOEM MOU

An updated version of the Memorandum of Understanding between AASG and the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) was ceremonially signed by AASG President, Jessica Moore, and BOEM Associate Director for Strategic Resources, Megan Carr, during the AASG annual meeting in Baton Rouge. This MOU maintains and strengthens the partnership between state geological surveys and BOEM by leveraging onshore expertise to help solve offshore problems. These include the identification and characterization of industrial and critical minerals, offshore energy and submarine cable placement, coastal zone hazards, and habitat mapping. Initial efforts to align State and Federal priorities on these important issues will focus on seamless onshore-offshore mapping, with a data call from BOEM to be released in the coming months.