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Evaluating Groundwater Inflow and Nutrient Transport to Texas Coastal Embayments

Summary

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will conduct a series of attainable objectives that will improve understanding of groundwater contributions to water quality and habitat degradation in relevant embayments of the South Texas coast. Objectives are: 1) map groundwater discharge and groundwater-surface water interaction zones, 2) quantify the spatial-temporal distribution of groundwater contaminant (nutrients, organic matter) transport and discharge, 3) evaluate the role of groundwater nutrients in system-wide nutrient budgets (i.e., inputs-outputs), and 4) evaluate hypoxia and phytoplankton (red & brown tide) trends in relation to groundwater flow and nutrient discharge.

Basics

Coast Wide

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Project is Incomplete

Classification

CMP 306

Coastal Natural Hazards Response

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Commencement of work on this project is contingent upon approval from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Funding Sources

Source 1

Active

N/A

Coastal Management Program (CMP)

Primary

Federal

$143,659.00

18

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Source 2

Active

N/A

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Secondary

City

$57,973.00

18

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Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Dorina Murgulet
Assistant Professor of Geology/Hydrogeology
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5850
Corpus Christi, Texas 78412
361.825.2309

General Land Office
Coastal Resources
800.998.4456
512.475.0773