Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2605 Texas A&M University at Galveston (144493)
Principal Investigator: Timothy Dellapenna
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 499,985
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 5/1/23 - 4/30/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Environmental Sciences
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Marine and Coastal Environmental Science
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Micro-plastics water column and sediment residence times: quantifying the cycling and flux between bay waters and sediment, and the burial history of micro-plastics within the Matagorda and San Antonio Bay Systems
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust
Program Title: none
Note:
PENDING 1.1.1 For the Matagorda and San Antonio Bay systems, this project aims to understand the cycling and flux of micro-plastics between bay waters and sediments, and to provide essential research data for monitoring and controlling the plastics pollution of the Matagorda Bay system, via: 1) quantifying the residence time and abundance of microplastics associated with suspended sediments; 2) evaluate the susceptibility of sediment resuspension and seabed mixing around the bay-system; 3) reconstructing the record of the micro-plastic accumulation, its residence time within the surface mixed layer of the seabed and its vulnerability for resuspension spatially, around the both bay systems.
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