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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 14,1996 PSA#1551Department of the Interior, National Biological Service, OAD-BA,
Procurement Staff, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Mail Stop 710, Arlington,
VA 22203 B -- NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO COASTAL AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
PROGRAM: ECOSYSTEM MONITORING, MISSISSIPPI/ALABAMA SHELF SOL
1445-ORFP-96-002 DUE 052296. Contact Joseph McHugh, Contracting
Officer, 703/358-1801. The National Biological Services requires a
study to monitor biological communities and environmental conditions at
three distinct types of topographic features present along the
Mississippi-Alabama outer continental shelf. These features include: 1)
high profile pinnacles of 10-15 m relief; 2) medium relief, flattop
features of approximately 5 m; 3) low relief hard bottoms of less than
5 m. Seasonal information shall be gathered regarding populations and
diversity of biological organisms related to turbidity, zonations, and
other physical environmental parameters. The study shall included
quantitative and qualitative observations of reef morphology, as well
as sessile organism growth rates and diversity, changes in dissolved
oxygen and the nepheloid layer, and general community dynamics. (068) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0016 19960313\B-0003.SOL)
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