The mission of the Texas Gulf Coast Research Center is to conduct research, collaborate with partners and design programming to inform and address long and short term challenges facing the Texas coast.
The Texas Gulf Coast Research Center is happy to announce the following awards for the planning grant, Impact 2030 and Impact 2027 round two competition.
Track 2030
Addressing near-term challenges on the Texas Gulf Coast with external partners and resource managers.
Examining the role of coastal habitats for energy and nutrient fluxes from fishes to people: an integrative socio-ecological approach
PI: Simon Brandl
CoPI and Partners: Natalie S. Poulos (Dep Nutri.Sci.)
Burning the Flats: Impacts of boat noise on fish movement and behavior in shallow coastal flats of Texas
PI: Victoria Congdon
CoPI and Partners: Chris Biggs (UTMSI), Matt Kendall & Laughlin Siceloff (NOAA Marine Spatial Ecology Division), Chuck Naiser & Billy Trimble (FlatsWorthy, Inc.), Joan Garland (NERR)
Implementing plankton imaging and stable isotope analysis to examine the fine-scale transport and recruitment of blue crab recruitment to estuarine nursery habitat
PI: Sharon Herzka
CoPI and Partners: Mark Fisher (TPWD)
Dynamics of migratory bird use of critical coastal habitat using remote monitoring
PI: Nicole Wonderlin
CoPI and Partners: Katie Swanson (NERR), Tim Keitt (UTAustin), Joan Garland (NERR), Rae Mooney (City of Port Aransas)
Track 2075
Addressing long-term challenges on the Texas Gulf Coast with external partners and resource managers.
How do Gulf of Mexico waters influence microbial plastic degradation?
PI: Hal Apler
CoPI and Partners: Zhanfei Liu (UTMSI)
Mining Texas Gulf coastal microbial communities for novel plastic degrading enzymes
PI: Brett Baker
CoPI and Partners: Edward Marcotte, Andy Ellington
Examining the consequences of sea-level rise and land use on the energy budgets of Texas’ migratory shorebirds
PI: Simon Brandl
CoPI and Partners: Amanda Koltz (IB), Jordan Casey (MSI), Matt Ashworth (Molecular Biosciences)
Microbial degradation of Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) along the Texas Coast
PI: Valerie De Anda
CoPI and Partners: Kaijun Lu (MSI), Kerri Ackerly (MSI)
Assessing Climatic Impacts on Wetland Transformation and Resilience along the Texas Coast using Remotely Sensed Imagery
PI: John Malito
CoPI and Partners: Katie Swanson (NERR), Wonhyun Lee (BEG), Ashraf Rateb (BEG)
DISTURBANCE: Showcasing UT Austin research and educating local communities through a new game that models the impacts of disturbances on interconnected Texas Gulf Coast ecosystems
PI: Rowan Martindale
CoPI and Partners: Adriana Reza (NERR), Jordan Casey (UTMSI, Simon Brandl (UTMSI)
Understanding the Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on River Flows to Bays and Estuaries: A Study of the Texas Gulf Coast
PI: Zong-Liang Yang
CoPI and Partners: Zhanfei Liu (UTMSI), Caimee Schoenbaechler (TWDB)
Planning Grants
Planning grants support projects that build capacity and foster collaborations to undertake the activities necessary to establish future alliances, or other large-scale networks to address a broadening participation challenge facing the Texas Gulf Coast at scale.
Integration of a 50-year curated dataset of stable isotope ratios of coastal and marine ecosystems components of the Texas Coastal Bend: toward assessing ecosystem-level impacts due to anthropogenic forcing
PI: Sharon Herzka
Creating Community Connections through a Market Analysis and Needs Assessment
PI: Adriana Reza
Grant Writing Workshops for Texas Gulf Coast Communities
PI: Katie Swanson
