Pre-nourishment beach benthic invertebrate monitoring

Summary

Texas A&M Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) will design beach benthic macrofaunal monitoring to assess time for the benthic invertebrate community to recover following a beach nourishment event and conduct the first phase of this monitoring, which will involve 10-12 months of prenourishment sampling at two beaches with planned nourishment events (to be later defined by the Texas General Land Office) and at least two control beaches. Work will later be continued under a separate contract and funding source to collect post-nourishment data.