Marine Minerals Research-recent results from the Centers for Marine Resources and Environmental Technology (CMRET)

The Marine Minerals Research Centers Program was established by an act of the US Congress in 1996. The act authorized CMRET's at the universities of Mississippi, Hawaii, and Alaska. The Mississippi center specializes in the Gulf of Mexico and other continental shelf regions of the United States; the Hawaii center focuses on the deep seabed and the nearshore environs of tropical islands; and the Alaska center concentrates on the Arctic Sea region. The CMRET program is managed by the Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior.