Region/County:
Willacy
Recipient:
Willacy County Industrial Foundation, Inc.
Summary:
The Willacy County Industrial Foundation, Inc. will ensure that the best education and outreach program is developed and implemented to increase public awareness of the natural resources available within the coastal area of Willacy County.
Region/County:
Harris
Recipient:
City of Baytown
Summary:
The City of Baytown will protect and preserve a coastal natural resource area by sprigging a Spartina alterniflora salt marsh between a breakwater and the shoreline for additional erosion control.
Region/County:
Coast Wide
Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology
Summary:
The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology will work with science students and teachers at Ball, Port Aransas, Port Isabel, Van Vleck and Palacios High Schools, as well as Tidehaven Middle and High Schools, to monitor selected beaches over a period of one year. The students measure shore-normal beach and dune topographic profiles and make observations on weather conditions, sea state, longshore current, and dune vegetation throughout the academic year. Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin analyze the data collected by the high school students.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston will coordinate with Scenic Galveston, Inc. and Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority to conduct a project to increase oyster populations and facilitate shoreline protection in Galveston Bay.
Region/County:
Upper Coast
Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston will address the challenge of meeting rising human needs for water supply and water quality by focusing on the constituents of the nutrient and sediment load.
Region/County:
Brazoria, Upper Coast
Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston will characterize sea turtle nesting activity and essential nesting habitat on West Galveston Island in response to the need for an ecological inventory and monitoring of threatened and endangered species
Region/County:
Coast Wide
Recipient:
Gulf of Mexico Foundation
Summary:
The Gulf of Mexico Foundation will continue its public education and outreach initiative through the continued implementation of the Science/Spanish Club Network, a multicultural approach to coastal environmental education that fosters youth leadership in stewardship of natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.
Region/County:
Lower Coast
Recipient:
Valley Proud Environmental Council
Summary:
The Captain Crab Clean Beach Media and Education Campaign was created to educate residents and visitors to South Padre Island and Boca Chica.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
The Galveston Bay Foundation will implement an outreach campaign in an effort to raise public awareness of the threat that invasive species—particularly Brazilian peppertrees—have on native coastal habitats.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
The Galveston Bay Foundation will decrease the incidences of illegal discharge of boater sewage waste in the Galveston Bay Estuary, particularly Clear Lake, through targeted outreach and education to boaters.
Region/County:
Harris
Recipient:
Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Summary:
The Buffalo Bayou Partnership will complete habitat, water quality and flood capacity improvements to the Tapley Tributary and the adjacent segment of Buffalo Bayou’s riparian buffer.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
Trust for Public Land
Summary:
The Trust for Public Land will acquire 71 acres of land on Galveston Island. This acquisition presents a fleeting and increasingly rare opportunity to protect one of the largest remaining natural areas on the West End, one not yet slated for development.
Region/County:
Upper Coast
Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
The Galveston Bay Foundation will sponsor Bay Day. This event calls attention to and celebrates Galveston Bay by providing fun activities for all ages, increasing public awareness of the bay’s value, resources, and diversity of uses.