Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2695 Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (144583)
Principal Investigator: Lindsay Prothro
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 103,969
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 3/1/23 - 2/28/24
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: 2C - Environment Sciences
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Physical & Environmental Sciences
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Sediment mercury concentrations in the Closed Area of Lavaca Bay and the risk to wildlife from mercury remobilization during dredging
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Texas State University
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1. - 1. Collect, process, and interpret CHIRP sub-bottom data. 2. Assist with sample collection (sediment coring, core splitting, subsampling for additional analyses). 3. Collect discrete X-ray fluorescence measurements in cores to quickly locate core intervals with elevated levels of Hg or other environmental pollutants. 4. Oversee the calculation of age and accumulation rate from sediment radioisotope data. 5. Complete the grain size analysis of sediment cores. 6. Advise one M.S. student at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi who will integrate parts 1 through 5 for their thesis. 7. Assist in all data analysis, manuscript writing, conference presentations, and writing interim and final reports to the MBMT. 8. Assist in all education and outreach.
Discussion: No discussion notes