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    Environmental Assessment of Open-Water Disposal of Maintenance Dredged Material in Galveston Bay, Texas
    (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station Vicksburg, MS, 1996-01) Ray, Gary; Clarke, Douglas; Diaz, Robert; Bass, Robert
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    Soundings
    (Galveston Bay Foundation, 1989) Galveston Bay Foundation
    This is the newsletter for the Galveston Bay Foundation. Begun in 1989 with volume 1 issue 1 being called Newsletter. Next issues as "Soundings" or "Bay Soundings". Many individual items are cited here in the Bibliography but this is the entire run of the journal as collected by the library through 1995.
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    Throwaway reefs
    (Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine, 1993-12) Dunn, Gail
    A Texas company is using coal ash waste from power plants to build saltwater artifcial reefs. The coal ash is being recycled instead of being disposed of in a landfill, and the reefs create important underwater habitat for marine life.
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    Estimation of the Contribution of Streams toward Material Loading to the Galveston Bay System
    (University of Texas at Austin, 1993-05) Gamblin, William Ward
    The main objective of this study was the calculation and analysis of material loading, due to streams and rivers, into Galveston Bay for a twenty year period (1969-1988). Specific objectives are summarized below: 1. Review previous literature involving the performance of different methods for estimating stream loading and review, as well, literature giving historical estimates of loading into Galveston Bay; 2. Obtain and manipulate into computer spreadsheets, United States Geological Survey (USGS) flow and water quality data; 3. Compute the loading of materials into Galveston Bay from eight different streams using three different estimation methods; and 4. Analyze calculated stream loading estimates against historical stream loading estimates and analyze the calculated stream loading values for discrepancies of values among the difference estimation methods and watersheds, while recognizing and evaluating trends in certain constituent loading rates.
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    Reproductive Success in Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulates (Linnaeus), Collected from Galveston Bay, Texas: Study of a Mixed Contaminant Estuary
    (University of Texas at Austin, 1994-08) Di Cocco, Jennifer Lynne
    The reproductive success of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, collected from two sites in the northwest section of the Houston Ship Channel and one site in Bayport Ship Channel in Galveston Bay, Texas was assessed in October 1993. Contaminant levels at the sites differ due to the amount and type of anthropogenic discharge along the Channel itself and in adjacent bays, with the San Jacinto and Tabbs Bay areas being heavily contaminated and Bayport Channel less contaminated. Individual spawns from sixty pairs of adult fish were inspected for egg quality and success of fertilization, hatch, and 39 and 63 h survival. Tabbs Bay had the highest percentage of unsuccessful spawns, 70.8%, followed by Bayport (32.0%), and San Jacinto (18.2%). Hatch was the critical time point in development due to the low success for all three sites (68.0& Bayport, 45.8% Tabbs Bay, 81.2% San Jacinto). San Jacinto had the most abnormal larvae at hatch, 26.3%, while Tabbs Bay had the highest percentage of dead abnormal larvae at 63 h, 51.8%. Less than 10% of the larvae at Bayport showed morphological abnormalities at any time point. Observations of larval response to a water jet or sound stimulation showed increasing trends with age of the larvae at Bayport Channel. At Tabbs Bay, there was evidence of impaired behavioral response as the larvae aged to both water jet and sound stimulation. Ovarian levels of ascorbic acid were significantly lower in the Tabbs Bay fish relative to those from the other sites. Conditions of the Houston Ship Channel in the Tabbs Bay region during October 1993 were detrimental to the reproductive success of M. undulatus, exerting the most influence at hatching of the embryo. Due to the physical and ecological similarities between sites, it is thought that the differing contaminant loads contributed to the differences seen between sites in larval survival, abnormalities, behavioral response, and adult ovarian ascorbic acid levels.
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    Age and Growth of Black Drum (Pogonias cromis) from Galveston Bay, Texas
    (Texas A&M University, 1992) King, John Mark
    No abstract available. Item not held by GBIC or TAMUG.
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    Disintegration of Clay During Hydraulic Transportation through a Dredge Pipe
    (University of Delaware, 1997) Gilbert, Paul Allen
    No abstract available. Item not held by GBIC or TAMUG.
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    Modeling Toxic Materials in Galveston Bay, Texas
    (University of Texas at Austin, 1993-08) Clarke, David Scott
    The overall objective of this study was to establish the cause/effect relationship between toxic material discharges to Galveston Bay and the water and sediment concentrations of toxic materials in Galveston Bay through the application of the US EPA supported Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program Version 4.32 (WASP4) and the toxic chemical sub-model TOXI4.
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    Comparison of Bird Use and Species Diversity of Created and Natural Salt Marshes in the Galveston Bay Complex, Texas
    (Texas A&M University, 1996) Melvin, Stefani Lynn
    No abstract available. Item not held by GBIC or TAMUG.
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    Tactical Response in Oil Spill Clean Up Operations: Heuristics and an Optimizing Approach
    (Texas A&M University, 1994) Srinivasa, Anand V.
    No abstract available. Item not held by GBIC or TAMUG.
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    Nonpoint Source Pollution in Galveston Bay: A Management Evaluation
    (University of Texas at Austin, 1992-08) Wilson, Kathryn Chiles
    This report will provide a management evaluation of nonpoint source pollution at the federal, state and local levels for the Galveston Bay area. The goal of this study is to identify the agencies which are charged with regulating nonpoint source pollution and describe the current programs which have been implemented to address this pollution problem. Problem areas such as gaps and overlaps in legislation and agency coordination will be analyzed.
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    Reconnaissance Survey of Galveston Bay Sediments for Selective Nonresidual Trace Metals
    (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1995) Miller, Kenneth Wayne
    No abstract available. Item is not held by GBIC or TAMUG.
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    Comparison of Calculated and Whole Effluent Toxicity of Toxic Materials to the Galveston Bay System
    (University of Texas at Austin, 1994-05) Yang, Si
    The purpose of this study was to determine the toxicity of permitted toxic materials in the effluents discharging to the Galveston Bay system. The primary emphasis was the comparison of calculated and whole effluent toxicity (in toxic units) based on the biomonitoring and self-reporting data of each industrial discharger provided by Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission. Five industrial dischargers selected for the calculated were: Shell Oil Co-Houston, Arco Chemical Company, Mobay Chemical Corporation, Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority, and Rohm & Haas Texas Inc.. The effects causing toxicity other than from reported toxic materials were analyzed. The results of this study may potentially help dischargers to upgrade their treatment facilities in order to reduce toxic materials and improve water quality in the effluents.
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    Point Source Pollution Management in Galveston Bay
    (University of Texas at Austin, 1992) Seidlitz, Stacy Kay
    No abstract available. Item not held by GBIC or TAMUG.
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    Texas Coastal Legislation Second Edition
    (Texas Coastal and Marine Council, 1975-10) Texas Coastal and Marine Council
    No abstract available.
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    Hall's and Chocolate Bayou Watersheds and Water Quality Protection by Native Habitats
    (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, 2007) Showalter, PS; Colvin, C; Pulich, Jr
    environmental protection; GIS; habitat conservation; land use/land cover; native habitats
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    Schoolyard Habitats: Benefits to Students and Our Bay Watershed
    (Galveston Bay Estuary Program, 2007) Brown, S; Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial State of the Bay Symposium January23-25, 2007
    No abstract available
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    Habitat designation based on cluster analysis of ichthyofauna.
    (Louisiana State University, 1979) Daniels, K
    abstract The steps in a cluster analysis are outlined: character selection, estimation of similarity among objects to be clustered, and construction of clusters. The use of an agglomerative clustering procedure for habitat designation based on icthyofaunal data collected from the Trinity River Delta, Texas is discussed. Distance and correlation coefficients are used in the estimation of similarity between Trinity River Delta stations. Results of the cluster analysis on this data are represented in the form of dendrograms.
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    Maintenance dredging Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Texas section. Main channel and tributary channels. Vol. 2. Figures.
    (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, 1975) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District;
    No abstract available
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    Review of reports on Chocolate Bayou and Bastrop Bayou, Texas.
    (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District., 1946) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District;
    No abstract available