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Coastal Projects

Coastwide Trends in Seagrass Cover and Condition in Texas Waters

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP) University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas will work to establish up to 75 additional seagrass monitoring stations in San Antonio Bay and Galveston Bay.

Boater Waste Education Campaign: Expanding Engagement Efforts and Changing Boater Behavior

Galveston
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Galveston Bay Foundation
Galveston Bay Foundation
Galveston Bay Foundation will refine the BWEC based on lessons learned, improve the Interactive Pump-Out map, expand messaging to boaters throughout Texas, continue efforts to designate Galveston Bay as a federal No Discharge Zone (NDZ), and track program improvements.

Lone Pine Farms - Texas Farm & Ranch Conservation

Brazoria
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Galveston Bay Foundation
Project will protect coastal natural resources with the aquisition of agricultural conservation easements.

Bolivar Beach Restoration Leveraging

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Galveston County CIAP
Galveston County
Project to finalize the engineering design for and construction of an approximately 3,500 linear foot beach nourishment and dune restoration project at Caplen Beach west of Rollover Pass on Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston County.

Beach-nesting Bird Conservation through Monitoring, Stewardship, and Education

Galveston
Coastal Management Program (CMP) American Bird Conservancy
American Bird Conservancy
American Bird Conservancy will use CMP Cycle 22 funding to engage and educate the public and land managers on beach-nesting bird stewardship.

Data Development and Management for Coastal Protection and Resiliency Planning Tasks 1-3

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Data collection and mapping will provide data for coastal resource management and resiliency planning.

Acquisition and Production of Orthoimagery for Coastal Texas

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
General Land Office
Collect georeferenced image data of the Texas coast using airborne sensors.

Moses Lake Shoreline Protection Phase 3 and Dollar Bay Marsh Restoration

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Galveston Bay Foundation
Galveston Bay Foundation
Construction of the third-phase extension of the existing living shoreline protection project along of the Moses Lake north shoreline.

GIWW-Rollover Bay Reach Beach Nourishment with Beneficial Use of Dredged Material State FY2017

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston County
Galveston County
Beach nourishment project beneficially utilizing dredged material from the state FY 2017 Corps maintenance dredging

Gilchrist west beach nourishment

Galveston
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Galveston County Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Galveston County
This nourishment project will repair some of that damage through FEMA funding.

Texas Coastal Resiliency Plan Education and Outreach Phase I

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
General Land Office
With funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) will develop a Texas Coastal Resiliency Plan (the plan) to provide for resilient economic and ecologic management of the Texas coast.

Mapping & Creation of Significant Washover Features

Coast Wide
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Texas General Land Office
The purpose of this study is to compile storm and aerial photographic information that can be used to determine areas of probable overwash during coastal storms.

Innovative Technology: Sustaining Dune Growth With Seabales

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Texas A&M Galveston
Texas A&M Galveston
Construct an 800-ft prototype dune incorporating Sargassum seabales in front of the Galveston seawall at 69th street.

Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) Shoreline Change Update

Coast Wide
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG)
BEG will update shoreline change rates and determine beach and dune volume and elevation relationships along the Texas Gulf of Mexico shoreline.

Surfside Beach Shoreline Stabilization Feasibility Study

Brazoria
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
General Land Office
The Village of Surfside (VOS) Gulf shoreline has experienced long term erosion estimated at a rate of 4 ft/year (TX BEG, 2004). However, the erosion has recently accelerated and is estimated at rate of 26 ft/year based on surveys collected from November 2004 through November 2006. The accelerated erosion has diminished the width of the public beach, increased damage to public infrastructure during high tide events, and significantly reduced public safety and use of the beach.

GIS Intern to Inventory Mitigation Sites and Living Shoreline Projects

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
A GIS inventory of mitigation sites and living shoreline projects on state-owned submerged lands in Texas

Texas Public Lands Wetlands Initiative Phases I, II, III

Upper Coast
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Texas R.I.C.E
To create high quality habitat for thousands of waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds and grassland species.

Integrating next-generation models into the oil spill prediction system for Texas bays

Coast Wide
Oil Spill Prevention & Response Act (OSPRA) Research and Development
University of Texas at Austin
The focus of this project is principally on improving the existing operational prediction of oil spills.

Colonial Waterbird Rookery Island Geoenvironmental Mapping for Oil Spill Response

Coast Wide
Oil Spill Prevention & Response Act (OSPRA) Research and Development
University of Texas at Austin - Bureau of Economic Geology
This study will locate, characterize, and provide detailed baseline.

Coastal Current Monitoring Network

Nueces
Oil Spill Prevention & Response Act (OSPRA) Research and Development
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI), at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, will install oceanographic instrumentation to document near shore currents and the distribution of wave height, period, and direction averaged over a period of time for a particular location (wave climate).