U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Outer OCS Region: Socioeconomic Impact Study of the Gulf of México IXTOC I Oil Spill.
Project Director and member of the Research Team for the Socioeconomic Impact Study of the Gulf of México IXTOC I Oil Spill and Development of an Input-Output Economic Forecasting Model. This project was funded by the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Interior to study the socioeconomic impacts of the blowout of the PEMEX IXTOC I Oil exploration platform in the Gulf of México Bahía de Campeche the world's largest and most expensive oil spill todate. The research study encompassed nineteen affected Gulf of México counties in the state of Texas and the study of the direct and indirect socioeconomic impacts of the oil spill among the principal three major industries in the region: Tourism, Recreation, and Commercial Fishing.
As well as being a research team member, I was in charge of the pre-award proposal preparation to the Department of Interior, project budgeting, the selection a highly qualified team of Ph.D. experts in Economics, Recreation, Tourism, Mathematics and Statistics. In addition, I was in charge of supervision and provided guidance to the research team in the delineation of the study objectives, preparation of research instruments, data collection, data verification and final report preparation. I also participated in the preparation and delivery of progress briefings and the final report to U.S. Government officials to include BLM audit teams.