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ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT

ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT. (ERP). MATAGORDA BAY. SAN ANTONIO BAY. ARANSAS/ COPANO BAY. CORPUS CHRISTI BAY. Colorado. Lavaca/ Navidad. Guadalupe. Aransas/Mission/ Copano. Nueces. SOUTH TEXAS ESTUARY SYSTEM. SALINITY INTRUSION. THE “ESTUARY”. ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT. STUDY TASKS.

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ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT

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  1. ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT (ERP)

  2. MATAGORDA BAY SAN ANTONIO BAY ARANSAS/COPANO BAY CORPUS CHRISTI BAY

  3. Colorado Lavaca/Navidad Guadalupe Aransas/Mission/Copano Nueces SOUTH TEXASESTUARY SYSTEM

  4. SALINITY INTRUSION

  5. THE “ESTUARY”

  6. ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT STUDY TASKS DATA BASE DEVELOPMENT HYDROGRAPHY CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY

  7. DATA BASE DEVELOPMENT DATABASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM User-friendly PC-based Data-processing options Variety of formats Transportable HISTORICAL DATA RECORD Data recovery Q/A Input & keyboarding Documentation EXTENSION & EXPANSION AS NEEDED

  8. ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT STUDY TASKS DATA BASE DEVELOPMENT HYDROGRAPHY CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY

  9. HYDROGRAPHY EXCHANGE & TRANSPORT Historical hydrology Volume budgets Tide & wind response Cedar Bayou history SALINITY RESPONSES Salinity history S vs Q relations Intertidal variation Spatial structure MODELING Selection Validation Implementation Application

  10. ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT STUDY TASKS DATA BASE DEVELOPMENT HYDROGRAPHY CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY

  11. CHEMISTRY PHOTOSYNTHESIS/RESPIRATION ANALYSIS Primary production calculations Hydrographic & climate effects Nutrient effects NUTRIENTS Loadings & budgets Controls SUSPENDED SOLIDS & TURBIDITY Loadings TSS vs Q TSS vs windwaves Turbidity effects

  12. Aransas Bay

  13. ESTUARY RESPONSES PROJECT STUDY TASKS DATA BASE DEVELOPMENT HYDROGRAPHY CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY

  14. BIOLOGY MACROFAUNA RESPONSES Key species life cycles Abundance time/space analysis External controls & analysis HABITATS & ECOLOGICAL ASSEMBLAGES Marsh characterization Ecological index evaluation Oyster reef status Modeling? BENTHOS MONITORING & ANALYSIS

  15. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ERP

  16. CONTINUED WORK ON THE ERP CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THE DATABASE MANAGER, SUPPORTED BY GBRA & SARA CONTINUED DATA-RECOVERY EFFORT, SUPPORTED BY SARA & GBRA INFLOW DATA COMPILATION & SUMMARY REPORT,SUPPORTED BY CIAP (2009) TIME LINE OF CEDAR BAYOU, SUPPORTED BY CIAP (2009) LIFE HISTORY LIT REVIEW FOR THE BLUE CRAB, SUPPORTED BY CIAP (2009) ANALYSIS OF SALINITY AND TSS RESPONSES, IN PROGRESS, SUPPORTED BY CIAP (2010)

  17. SAN ANTONIO BAY

  18. Advantage of San Antonio Bay for evaluating responses Almost the entirety of the freshwater input to the system enters at the head of the estuary San Antonio Bay has relatively small intensity of development around its periphery There is no deep-draft ship channel transecting the bay The volume of San Antonio Bay is small compared to the flood freshets that enter the bay The Bay is located on a climatological gradient between the humid northern coast, and the arid southern coast The effects of high inflows and low inflows tend to be sustained for much longer periods than is the case for bays with freer exchange with the sea

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