Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2716 Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (144604)
Principal Investigator: Michael Wetz
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 50,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 11/9/22 - 4/30/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: 2C - Environment Sciences
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Harte Research Center
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program in Baffin Bay
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.1.7 - "...The objective of this project is to continue the sampling that was started with volunteers to maintain strategic water quality sampling in Baffin Bay....collect water quality samples at 6 stations throughout Baffin Bay. Each station will be visited once per month, weather conditions permitting. A YSI sonde will be used as well as grab samples taken. YSI will collect: Salinity, temperature, DO, and pH. Grab samples will collect for: Inorganic nutrients, total dissolved nitrogen/organic carbon, chlorophyll, and phytoplankton. ...Performing Party shall submit data collected under this contract in the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) database on an annual basis (calendar year). ... Performing Party is required to make two verbal presentations of this project, at or near its conclusion, to committees of the CBBEP. The presentation is intended to disseminate project results and coordinate findings with other ongoing work...."
Discussion: No discussion notes