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Coastal Projects

Shamrock Island Habitat Protection and Enhancement Phase III

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) RESTORE Act Texas Nature Conservancy
Nature of Conservancy of Texas
The previously designed feeder berm was damaged during Hurricane Harvey, the feeder berm will be emplaced and potentially redesigned for the north breach.

Shamrock Island Protection and Habitat Enhancement Phase II

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) The Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy
The project provides for the placement of three offshore rock breakwaters.

Shell Bank Improving Oyster Reef Restoration Through Oyster Shell Recycling, Education, and Scientific Inquiry

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Establish a community-based shell recycling program to promote drop off locations for shucked oyster shells.

Shell Bank: An Oyster Shell Reclamation, Storage, and Recycling Program for Oyster Reef Restoration

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
The Shell Bank project is a partnership between the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, and Water Street Seafood Company in Corpus Christi, TX. Its mission is to reclaim and stockpile in excess of 60-70 tons of shell annually by targeting restaurants in the greater Corpus Christi area.

Shell Bank: An Oyster Shell Recycling Program for the Texas Coastal Bend

Lower Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
The mission of the expanded Shell Bank Project is to reclaim and stockpile more than 750 cubic yards of shell annually for use in future restoration projects by targeting restaurants and seafood wholesalers in the Texas Coastal Bend. In CMP Cycle #14, the project began its pilot phase in Corpus Christi. In CMP Cycle #15, Texas A&M Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) seek to expand shell recycling efforts by partnering with Alby’s Seafood, a large seafood wholesaler in the Rockport-Fulton area.

Shell Bank: An Oyster Shell Recycling, Habitat Selection, and Outreach Program for the Texas Coastal Bend

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Expand the Oyster Shell Recycling Program by increasing community involvement.

Shell Bank: An Oyster Shell Recycling, Reef Planning, and Education Program for the Texas Coastal Bend

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies WaterStreet
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Harte Research Institute will expand the oyster shell recycling program, increase community involvement, develop lesson plans for high school students, and monitor oyster growth and reef development.

Shell Bank: coastal resiliency through shell recycling, community engagement and habitat restoration

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) will continue their Oyster Shell Recycling Program.

Shell Bank: Enhancing coastal resiliency via shell recycling, restoration and community partnerships

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) will continue their Oyster Shell Recycling Program.

Shell Bank: Oyster shell recycling, citizen engagement, hands-on learning, & reef characterization

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi will continue the oyster shell recycling program. The program was developed to reclaim shucked oysters from Coastal Bend restaurants, seafood wholesalers and seafood festivals for use in reef restoration.

Shell Bank: Oyster shell recycling, community engagement, teacher institute, and oyster health

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
The Galveston Bay Foundation will reclaim spent oyster shell from local seafood restaurants and properly cure the shell in preparation for reuse in oyster reef restoration work in Galveston Bay.

Shell Bank: Oyster shell recycling, community involvement, student institute, and oyster response to environmental change

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
TAMU-CC will continue this program to reclaim and recycle shucked oyster shells from Coastal Bend restaurants, seafood wholesalers, and seafood festivals for use in reef restoration.

Shell Bank: Oyster shell recycling, restoration resources, and reef resilience

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
TAMU-CC developed the program to reclaim and recycle shucked oyster shells from Coastal Bend restaurants, seafood wholesalers, and seafood festivals for use in reef restoration.

Shell Bank: Oyster Shell Recycling, Teacher Engagement, Environmental Stewardship, and Scientific Inquiry

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
The Harte Research Institute (HRI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will continue their oyster shell recycling program, the Shell Bank

Shoreline and Wetland Protection at the Cohn Preserve

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy, Texas Chapter
This project will focus on shoreline protection and stabilization needed to address the significant degradation of shorelines and coastal wetlands on the bay side of Mustang Island in Nueces County, at two locations, The Nature Conservancy’s Francine Cohn Preserve and at Mustang Island State Park.

Shoreline Change and Beach/Dune Morphodynamics Along the Gulf Coast

Coast Wide
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Universtity of Texas at Austin - Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
This University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology project will provide data, maps and analyses that are needed to plan the future of the shoreline. State-of-the-art LIDAR technology and analysis methods will be used. Status of the beach/dune system will be determined through the measurement of volumes, dimensions, and morphology, and a storm susceptibility index will be developed.

Shoreline Change-Hurricane Ike Shoreline Assessment-LIDAR Study

Coast Wide
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
General Land Office
The University of Texas – Bureau of Economic Geology will build on work conducted in previous CEPRA cycles to determine shoreline change rates and develop digital elevation models using aerial photography and LiDAR surveys to assess Hurricane Ike-induced shoreline change. The CEPRA statute mandates this work for reporting to the Legislature.

Smart and Self-Sustaining Early Warning Systems for Coastal Flooding

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) University of Texas at San Antonio
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
University of Texas at San Antonio will develop smart and self-sustaining early-warning systems for coastal flooding with state-of-the-art low-power Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) and energy harvesting solutions.

Smith Point Constructed Wetland

Chambers
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Trinity Bay Conservation District
Trinity Bay Conservation District
Trinity Bay Conservation District will construct and develop a surface-flow-constructed wetland to properly treat the wastewater within the Smith Point community.

South Padre Island Beach Access #16 Neptune Circle Improvements

Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP) City of South Padre Island
City of South Padre Island
The City of South Padre Island will construct a permanent restroom and install an Americans with Disability Act compliant ramp for the ingress and egress of the walkover.