County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Twxas A&M University- Corpus Christi worked with the Texas State Aquarium to develop tools, lesson plans, and simplified models using real data to educate students about Texas coastal food webs and the nature of scientific data collection and use.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas - Marine Science Institute
Summary:
The University of Texas determined the causes and effects of hypoxia in Corpus Christi Bay.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project constructed a geotextile tube shoreline protection structure for an established bird-nesting island in Nueces Bay. An alternatives analysis, engineering design, permitting, and construction were completed.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuary Program completed data collection, aerial imagery and alternatives analysis for Causway Rookery Island restoration.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Summary:
This project included engineering and design, alternatives analysis and permitting for a structure designed to protect the east side of Causeway Island.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Summary:
The project entailed 3,400 linear feet of shoreline protection in the form of breakwaters around a bird rookery island. The system will include 9 breakwater segments of various lengths between 175 to 1,050 feet in length.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
Galveston Bay Foundation coordinated and launched a regional Cease the Grease campaign by working with a stakeholder workgroup, developing marketing and outreach materials, creating a distribution plan, and tracking campaign progress.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
The Galveston Bay Foundation developed new and improved marketing and outreach materials, created an updated distribution plan and track campaign progress, and launched a pilot community grease recycling program.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Aransas County Navigation District
Summary:
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Save Cedar Bayou, Inc.
Summary:
County/Region:
Aransas, Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
Save Cedar Bayou, Inc.
Summary:
This project continued the final design and permitting of a feasible alternative for marsh restoration.
County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi collected current water quality data that provides adequate, up-to-date information to reassess the Cedar Lakes area for oyster use.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Department of State Health Services
Summary:
Department of State Health Services collected bacteria samples at eight stations within Cedar Lakes over 30 sampling events to perform bacterial source tracking.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
The Coastal Bend Bays Foundation's held the annual Earth Day-Bay Day with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Coastal Expo Program. The event was held in one of the city's bayfront parks on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This study is a continuation of a project from Cycle I, which estimated the economic and environmental benefits of 23 Cycle 1 projects.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project conducted an economic evaluation of 17 CEPRA Cycle 2 projects.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
This project conducted an economic evaluation of CEPRA Cycle 3 projects.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
The GLO contracted with vendors to obtain up-to-date aerial photography of the Texas coastal shoreline to help identify critical eroding areas.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
CEPRA statute mandated economic and natural resources benefit cost study covering CEPRA cycles 12-13.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
The Texas Legislature requires the Texas General Land Office (GLO) to report the economic and natural resource benefits derived from Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) funding every biennium.