Freshwater Inflows to Texas Bays and Estuaries: A State-Wide Review, Synthesis, and Recommendations

Project Description

Texas A&M – Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) will use Coastal Management Program Cycle 26 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) funds to conduct a synthesis of freshwater inflows to Texas bays and estuaries and publish the results in a book. The project will include three tasks: data assembly, analyses and mapping, and writing. The project will include eight groups from all over the state and with multidisciplinary backgrounds: policy and law, climate and hydrology, bay circulation and salinity, habitat and geospatial mapping, water column (water quality and plankton), benthos (infauna, oysters, marsh, and seagrass), nekton (fish and mobile benthos), and data management (story maps, GIS, and web portal).