This animation is part of an educational series aimed at explaining seismic surveys, their characteristics, and their importance in Making Energy Possible.
2021 – Geoscience industry identifies mathematical errors in current ITR permitting process, NMFS begins process to reevaluate and correct errors
2024 – NMFS amends the ITR, ultimately making few changes in what was one of many delays that contributed to the steady decline of geoscience surveys in the GOA since 2014
2024 – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service publishes a rule to revise ITR of polar bears and Pacific walruses on and around the North Slope of Alaska
2024 – At least one petition for MMPA authorization has stalled for more than two years, preventing updated insight into the resource potential on Alaska’s North Slope
