County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi expanded the shell recycling efforts by partnering with Alby's Seafood and transporting oyster shells from Corpus Christi restaurants to the Shell Bank repository.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi expanded the oyster shell recycling program, increased opportunities for community involvement, created an "Oysters in the classroom" program, and examined alternative reef building materials.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi expanded the oyster shell recycling program, increased community involvement, developed lesson plans for high school students, and monitored the educational reef.
Shell Bank: Coastal Resiliency Through Shell Recycling, Community Engagement and Habitat Restoration
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi continued their Oyster Shell Recycling Program.
Shell Bank: Enhancing coastal resiliency via shell recycling, restoration and community partnerships
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi continued their Oyster Shell Recycling Program.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi built on previous efforts, supporting principal goals and priority issues defined in the Coastal Bend Bays Plan: Bay Tourism and Recreation, Habitat and Living Resources, and Public Education and Outreach.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi built on build on previous efforts, by expanding oyster shell collection, hosting community-based restoration events, and monitoring oyster disease on reefs throughout the Mission-Aransas Estuary .
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi built on previous “Sink Your Shucks” oyster shell recycling program efforts.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi developed a program to reclaim and recycle shucked oyster shells from Coastal Bend restaurants, seafood wholesalers, and seafood festivals for use in reef restoration.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi continued the “Sink Your Shucks!” program to return shells to coastal bend bays to restore degraded habitat. The program was expanded, held outreach events, educated teachers, and restored reef habitat value.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Sonia Najera
Summary:
This project conducted data collection, initial engineering and design, and permitting for a shoreline protection structure along the The Nature Conservancy’s Francine Cohn Preserve’s shoreline in Corpus Christi Bay.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas determined the rate of shoreline change in West and Christmas bays in the Galveston Bay system.
County/Region:
San Patricio
Project Partner/Recipient:
San Patricio Soil and Water Conservation District
Summary:
San Patricio Soil and Water Conservation District integrated two geotextile systems to assess the effectiveness of this erosion control system on highly eroding bluff shorelines.
County/Region:
Nueces, San Patricio
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Summary:
The project constructed offshore breakwaters to provide shoreline protection for the southern portion of Indian Point.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Airport and Channel Corporation
Summary:
The Airport and Channel Corporation installed geo-containers in Piper Channel to ameliorate the effects of sediment transport from the high energy Corpus Christi Ship Channel into Piper Channel.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Aransas
Summary:
The City of Port Aransas constructed one public multi-head shower facility on the beach in the City of Port Aransas right-of-way.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Corpus Christi
Summary:
The City of Corpus Christi provided four signs along the public waterways in the Padre Island vicinity to direct boat traffic to the facility.