Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries
Program
Bay Sediment Monitoring Project
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: $ 75,000
Description: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries
Program is supporting efforts to provide an intensive, targeted
water quality monitoring of the CBBEP project areas including
Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi Inner Harbor, Aransas
Bay and the Upper Laguna Madre. Sediment sampling and analysis
will support the water quality monitoring, provide clarification
of water quality concerns, and provide a valuable component which
will aid in evaluating the health of the ecosystem.
Outcome:> Texas A & M University-Corpus
Christi, Center for Coastal Studies will be performing the project.
The draft report should be completed by the end of July and the
final report should be completed by August 2001.
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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