Using grant money from the General Land Office the National Park Service (NPS) and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department helped re-establish a nesting colony of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles on Padre Island National Seashore through on-the-ground and educati
In collaboration with the U.S.
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) will improve water quality monitoring methodology of seagrass-dominated ecosystems by developing a database to archive data and images, facilitate analysis and disseminate results. Seagrass blades,
This proposal outlines an implementation program for monitoring Texas seagrasses in the Lower Laguna Madre, following protocols that evaluate seagrass condition based on landscape-scale dynamics.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will investigate the impact of wastewater discharge on seagrass by study of the potentially-impacted site and a reference site.
Seaside Circle (Access Point #6), a partially developed access point on the southern end of Gulf Boulevard, is a high traffic area with a healthy dune system that has fully recovered from the storm surge created by hurricanes Dolly and Ike.
This project evaluated the beach maintenance activities within the city and the potential impact of those activities on the beach and dune system. This allowed the GLO to better guide local governments in developing best management strategie
The Texas Water Development Board continued to reinstitute monitoring of sediment loading to important coastal ecosystems, conduct associated research, and to combine the data with information from related projects into sediment budgets for w
The fifth year of a cooperative research study that seeks to document the effects of the Lake Livingston dam on downstream sedimentation processes, in particular the delivery of sediment to the lower Trinity River and the Trinity Bay estuary and, ultim
Artist Boat will purchase 160 acres of valuable coastal barrier habitat on the west end of Galveston Island and develop a Habitat Management Plan, and a Public Access/Education Plan for the site.
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will continue to reclaim oyster shells from coastal bend restaurants/wholesalers for restoring degraded reefs; establish a community-based shell recycling program to promote community drop off locations for shuck
The Shell Bank project is a partnership between the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, and Water Street Seafood Company in Corpus Christi, TX.
The mission of the expanded Shell Bank Project is to reclaim and stockpile more than 750 cubic yards of shell annually for use in future restoration projects by targeting restaurants and seafood wholesalers in the Texas Coastal Bend.
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) will expand the oyster shell recycling program, by establishing partnerships with regional seafood festivals, and to reclaim a portion of the huge quantity of shells produced at these annual events.
Harte Research Institute will expand the oyster shell recycling program, increase community involvement, develop lesson plans for high school students, and monitor oyster growth and reef development.
The Galveston Bay Foundation will reclaim spent oyster shell from local seafood restaurants and properly cure the shell in preparation for reuse in oyster reef restoration work in Galveston Bay. Shell obtained from the program is used for (separa
The Harte Research Institute (HRI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will continue their oyster shell recycling program, the Shell Bank.
This University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology project will provide data, maps and analyses that are needed to plan the future of the shoreline. State-of-the-art LIDAR technology and analysis methods will be used.
The University of Texas - Bureau of Economic Geology will build on work conducted in previous CEPRA cycles to determine shoreline change rates and develop digital elevation models using aerial photography and LiDAR surveys to assess Hurricane Ike-induc
Trinity Bay Conservation District will construct and develop a surface-flow-constructed wetland to properly treat the wastewater within the Smith Point community.