One goal of this study was to produce a computerized, annotated bibliography of environmental, socioeconomic, and technological literature for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico... A preliminary bibliography was compiled from an in-house library at Continental Shelf Associates, Inc. References were then added from computer searches of online databases and from personal libraries of chapter authors. Online databases were searched...The results of in-house and electronic searchers were incorporated into a preliminary list and sent to the chapter authors... The final annotated bibliography database was compiled and indexed in a bibliographic computer program, ProCite. This volume contains the resulting printed annotated bibliography.