Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Atmospheric Deposition Study
Type: Condition of habitat and sources
affecting habitat (i.e., the condition or functionality of the habitat) and
stressors affecting habitat (i.e., which sources have contributed to
its degradation and whether they are direct or indirect factors).
Category: Submerged, Intertidal, and Wetland
Cost: $ 25,000 (FY2000); $ 40,000 (FY2001)
Description: During the development of the CBBP, the
Management Conference funded a project to develop a total loadings model that
would determine total loads to Corpus Christi Bay. Data gaps in atmospheric
pollutants and their sources were identified as a result of this project. A
follow-up study was funded to determine atmospheric pollutant contributions
to the bay system. This study has been on-going since April 1997. The proposed
FY 2000 and FY2001 projects will be a continuation of the on-going project and
will provide additional years of data. Historically, no information was available
with which to assess atmospheric pollutant sources by bay waters; however, this
project will provide resource managers with a multi-year data set capable of
capturing data variations for evaluating trends in atmospheric pollutant sources.
Atmospheric Deposition Study
Outcome: In June 2000, the site was established as a
part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program-National Trends Network
(NADP-NTN). Data gathered as part of the NADP-NTN will be consistent with other
sites around the country for comparative purposes. At the present time, Corpus
Christi has the only coastal monitoring site in existence along the Texas coast.
The continued monitoring of this site will provide information from this area
to both national and regional (Gulf of Mexico) efforts as well as to local (Coastal
Bend) efforts. The data will be evaluated to identify actions that can be administered
to reduce the amounts of undesirable deposition.
Contact: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries, (361) 885-6202.
Citation: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries, "Annual
Work Plan: Fiscal Year 2000;" Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries, "Annual
Work Plan: Fiscal Year 2001.
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