County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project conducted a Texas shoreline change project to identify and quantify eroding areas.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
The Texas Stream Team (TST) is expanding its community science bacterial water quality monitoring in impaired Gulf Coast watersheds by integrating IDEXX and R-Card bacterial monitoring methods into its TCEQ-approved Quality Assurance Project Plan.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology continued to strengthen the Texas coastal database and understanding short-term (seasonal, yearly, storm effects) and long-term (decade, storm -recovery) changes to the coastal environment.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology developed a user-friendly, interactive, web-based display of GIS-based maps of historical and current Texas wetland types, boundaries, and distribution.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Historical Commission
Summary:
The Texas Historical Commission used the funds as a component of the overall funding for conservation treatment of the nearly one-million artifacts recovered during the excavation of the Belle, La Salle's flagship, which sank in Matagorda Bay in 1686.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Clean Coast Texas will help communities with comprehensive planning, policy development, green stormwater infrastructure, floodplain management, sewage facility maintenance & funding strategies to support adoption of Texas Coastal NPS Program priorities.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi will expand upon current engagement with four new partnering communities, plan and construct four stormwater infrastructure projects (retrofits), and pursue Sustainable Stormwater Manual adoption.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Halff
Summary:
Halff will conduct a creek diversion feasibility analysis, conduct green stormwater engineering designs, and gain commitments from target communities toward the implementation of the State of Texas Coastal Nonpoint Source Pollution program.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and partners will continue to implement the goals of the Clean Coast Texas (CCT) program. CCT will provide coastal communities with technical and financial resources for improving water quality management.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Houston Advanced Research Center
Summary:
Houston Advanced Research Center used economic approaches to derive economic values for fresh water inflows to the Guadalupe estuary and surrounding wetlands.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Houston Advanced Research Center
Summary:
Houston Advanced Research Center provided a detailed understanding of the economic link between freshwater inflows from the Rio Grande and preservation of the coastal riverine and estuarine ecosystems in and near the mouth of the river.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Houston Advanced Research Center
Summary:
Houston Advanced Research Center provided a detailed understanding of the fundamental economic link between water and ecotourism in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston monitored the long-term response of aquatic plant and animal communities to the closure of Rollover Pass.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Lee College
Summary:
Lee College collected data at living shoreline sites throughout Galveston Bay to assess resiliency Post-Harvey and the functional aspects of these small-scale restoration projects.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Aransas County
Summary:
Aransas County constructed a "living lab," a native habitat study area with trails and educational amenities and a streambed with riffle ponds along the west bank of Tule Ditch/Tule Creek.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Gulf of Mexico Foundation, Inc.
Summary:
The Gulf of Mexico Foundation, Inc. continued the Science and Spanish Club Network, which has emerged as an effective tool in shaping a distinct, community-based youth leadership in stewardship of the Gulf of Mexico agenda.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Texas State University led a dynamic team of scientists, educators, engineers and communication professionals, collectively known as the Texas Coastal Collaborative, in a two-year coastwide effort to engage key stakeholders in targeted communities.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
Summary:
The Adopt-A-Beach program developed 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.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Cooperative Extension
Summary:
The Texas Cooperative Extension expanded the "Urban Wetland Education and Restoration" project's community outreach by hosting a Lessons Learned in Wetland Restoration workshop and monitoring water quality improvement at wetland restoration projects.