Project to control the spread of noxious and invasive species on the Aransas Wildlife Refuge and the Peach Point Wildlife Management Area.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will develop a manual that details the how to construct a stormwater wetland.
Texas A&M University at Galveston will continue the functioning, growth, and expansion of the Texas Coastal Erosion Data Network and change the name to the Texas Sand and Oyster Reef Resource Network.
Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin will teach students how to monitor selected beaches over a period of one year.
The University of Texas - Bureau of Economic Geology (UT-BEG) has completed extensive studies on the distribution, abundance, and status of wetlands and aquatic habitats along the Texas coast, providing critical information on the preservation and prot
Conservation treatment of artifacts recovered during the excavation of the Belle, La Salle's flagship
Texas State will lead the Clean Coast Texas Collaborative team in environmental outreach and education, comprehensive planning, local policy development, and engineering design and construction of green stormwater infrastructure projects to help reduce
Project to collect and review existing data, information and research regarding the role and economic value of freshwater inflows in sustaining the coastal ecosystems of San Antonio Bay.
Two key elements of the project are to estimate the economic value of water used to sustain the ecosystem, based on an analysis of the Valley's ecotourism sector, and to disseminate the information generated by the project to public officials, state an
This project used economic approaches to derive an economic value for fresh water inflows from the Rio Grande.
Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMU-G) will monitor the long-term response of aquatic plant and animal communities to the closure of Rollover Pass. TAMU-G will also monitor salinity to help understand freshwater inflow needs to East Bay.
Lee College will collect data at living shoreline sites throughout Galveston Bay to assess resiliency Post-Harvey and the functional aspects of these small-scale restoration projects.
Aransas County will develop Upper Tule Creek West as a "living lab." The "living lab" will include trails, educational kiosks, timber observation blinds and interpretive areas with educational signage.
The Gulf of Mexico Foundation continued its public education and outreach initiative through the continued implementation of the Science & Spanish Club Network (SSCN). SSCN has emerged as an effective tool in shaping a distinct community-base
Texas State University will take a dynamic approach to hazard mitigation, resiliency, and coastal nonpoint source (NPS) pollution control. This project will focus on best practices for NPS pollution control and community ordinance adoption.
The Texas General Land Office will develop a new outreach campaign to help increase public awareness of the threat caused by marine debris on the Texas coast, and to spur volunteer participation in the program's coastwide cleanup efforts.
Texas Cooperative Extension will use this grant to continue the Wetland Restoration Team's basic training, to develop a monitoring protocol and schedule for locally created wetlands, and to host a "Lessons Learned Workshop" on wetland restoration.
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi will conduct a risk assessment and prediction of the vulnerability of on-site sewage facilities' functionality to climate and human-induced changes and their importance as nonpoint source pollution (NPS) from t
This project will study three impaired tidal streams in order to determine the appropriate water quality standards. The results of this study will provide information that will enable the state to move forward to reduce pollution of wetlands and