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Item Principal game birds and mammals of Texas.(Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission., 1945) Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission.No abstract availableItem Relating climatological forcing to coastal water levels in Louisiana estuaries and the potential importance of El Nino- Southern Oscillation events.(1990) Childers, D.L.; Day, J.W., Jr.; Muller, R.A.; Climate ResearchNo abstract availableItem Note on changes in the abundance and distribution of certain species of macroalgae alone the Texas coast of the Gulf of Mexico.(n.d.) Medlin, L.K.; Contributions in Marine ScienceNo abstract availableItem An Overview of TexAQS 2000(2002 1913) Daum PHFrom August 1 to September 15, 2000 over 250 scientists and technicians from over 40 organizations participated in TexAQS 2000, a major air quality study focussed on Houston, Texas The study was one of the largest, most comprehensive and sophisticated studies of urban air quality that has ever conducted in the US. The overall objective of the study was to provide a better understanding of the emissions, and the basic chemical, physical and meteorological processes that determine ozone and fine particle distributions in eastern Texas, and to provide scientific understanding to policy makers to assist them in devising optimal ozone and PM management strategies. Resources for the program included five aircraft; major chemistry sites at Laporte airport adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel, and on the 62nd floor of Williams Tower on the west side of Houston; EPA funded (U. of Texas GC-ARCH Program) aerosol/chemistry sites located up-in- and downwind wind of the Ship Channel, and; a well developed ozone/aerosol monitoring network supported by TNRCC, the City of Houston, and a consortium of industries in the Houston area. Meteorological resources included five wind profilers, and three rawinsonde launch sites. Conditions were ideal for an air quality study with a major O3 episode occurring during late August, early September. The large array of surface and airborne measurements deployed in the program resulted in an unprecedented characterization in space and time, of the concentrations of O3/aerosol precursors, intermediates, and product species in eastern Texas over a range of conditionsItem Economic development in Galveston: a summary.(Galveston Chamber of Commerce., 1986) Galveston Chamber of Commerce.No abstract availableItem The story of Buffalo Bayou and the Houston ship channel.(Chamber of Commerce., 1926) Farrar, R.M.No abstract availableItem Review of the hydrologic studies proposed San Jacinto reservoir. Part I: Probable yield, Houston, Texas.(Horner and Shifrin Consulting Engineers., 1944) Horner and Shifrin Consulting Engineers.No abstract availableItem Prehistoric Subsistence Exploitation in the Lower Trinity River Delta, Texas(1975) Dillehay TDResults of recent archeological excavations at five sites in the Wallisville Reservoir suggest a pattern of differentiation in seasonal occupation of the region by discrete societal groups. This pattern is based upon the development of an efficient adaptation to a highly variable, high diversity environment. This adaptation required complex interplay between social organization, settlement size and location, technology, and the seasonal availability of certain exploitable faunal and presumably associated floral species. This concern with variables related to food item acquisition, differential access to high or low resource productivity zones, and social group size is relevant to an understanding of significant aspects of prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptation to a basic marine environment, including demographic processesItem A demographic profile of participants in two Gulf of Mexico inshore shrimp fisheries and their response to the Texas closure(1991) Nance JM; Garfield N; Paredes JA; Marine Fisheries ReviewA social study of the shrimp fisheries of Galveston Bay, Tex., and Calcasieu Lake, La., was made during the summer of 1987 to examine the impacts of the seasonal closure of the federal waters off Texas and to understand the infrastructure and demographic processes of these two diverse fisheries. Survey instruments were administered to 159 shrimp boat captains: 89 from Galveston Bay and 70 from Calcasieu Lake. Shrimp-house owners were interviewed in each region as wellItem Calanoid copepods of the genus Aetideus from the Gulf of Mexico.(1973) Park, T.; Fishery BulletinThe copepod population known previously as belonging to Aetideus armatus (Boeck) in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea is recognized as a separate species. The males of Aetideus acutus Farran and A. giesbrechti Cleve are fully redescribed with figures.Item Amphibians of Texas.(1938) Wright, A.H.; Wright, A.A.; Transactions of the Texas Academy of ScienceProvides individual species accounts of all amphibian species then known from Texas. Includes description of morphology, voice and color, distributional information and ecological data.Item Assessment of bottom longline fishing off the central Texas coast.(Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1980) Cody, T.J.; Avent, R.M.From October 1977- September 1979 the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department conducted a study to assess and evaluate the commercial potential of bottom longline gear as a harvest method for finfish stocks off the central Texas coast. Sampling was conducted quarterly in 10-fm increments out to the 50 fm using 1200-ft sections of halibut-type longline gear and tuna circle hooks. A total of 469 fish representing 32 species were caught at 79 stations. The Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae) was the most abundant in number (310) and weight (2958 lb) representing 66.1% of the total fish caught and 54.8% of the total biomass. The catch data demonstrated that bottom longlining at depths less that 50 fm is not likely to offer a practical commercial alternative for shrimping fleets unless underutilized species (mainly sharks) could be marketed.Item Ozone production rate and hydrocarbon reactivity in 5 urban areas: A cause of high ozone concentration in Houston(2002) Kleinman LI; Daum PH; Imre D; Lee YN; Nunnermacker LJ; Springston SR; Weinstein-Lloyd J; Rudolph JObservations of ozone (O3) and O3 precursors taken from aircraft flights over Houston, TX, Nashville, TN; New York, NY; Phoenix, AZ, and Philadelphia, PA show that high concentrations of reactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the Houston atmosphere lead to calculated O3 production rates that are 2 to 5 times higher than in the other 4 cities even though NOx concentrations are comparable. Within the Houston metropolitan area, concentrations of VOCs and O3 production rates are highest in the Ship Channel region; the location of one of the largest petrochemical complexes in the world. As a consequence the concentration of O3 in the Houston metropolitan area has recently exceeded 250 ppb, the highest value observed in the U.S within the past 5 yearsItem Item Trinity heritage scenic byway(1995 Spring)Describes the views along the route running through the Trinity River and Clair Engle Lake areas in California. Town of Weaverville; Peaks of the Salmon-Trinity Alps Wilderness; Historic buildings on Rush Creek Road; Trinity River Fish Hatchery; Scott Mountain; Parks Creek Road; Weather; Campgrounds; Wildlife; ForestsItem Project Goal Summary: GIWW Rollover Bay Research. GLO Project #1039(2000) Duffey, T.No abstract availableItem Predicted survival of the bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli ) in the heated effluent of a power plant on Galveston Bay, Texas(1982) Chung KS; Strawn K; Environmental biology of fishesThe bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli ), collected from the intake canal of the P.H. Robinson Generating Station, Bacliff, Texas, were tested for 180 min at various constant temperatures during June 1974 through September 1975 to determine if they could survive passage through the discharge canal system. Three-h survival temperatures were significantly lower, throughout the year, than the temperatures in the discharge canal both afferent and efferent to the cooling towers. This indicates that the bay anchovy entrained and entrapped from the intake canal and exposed to the heated effluent could not survive in the cooling water system. However, the cooling towers should aid survival of the fish in the canal below the towersItem Galveston Bay: Temporal changes in the concentrations of trace organic contaminants in National Status and Trends oysters (1986-1994)(1998 Dec) Jackson TJ; Wade TL; Sericano JL; Brooks JM; Wong JM; Garcia-Romero B; McDonald TJ; EstuariesThe temporal distributions for six classes of trace organic contaminants (chlordanes, DDTs, dieldrin, PAHs, PCBs, and butyltins) in oysters from six Galveston Bay sites from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Status and Trends (NS&T) Mussel Watch Program are compared with other NS&T sites from the Gulf of Mexico as well as all NS&T sites of the United States (East Coast, West Coast, and Gulf of Mexico). Decreases in the median for the Gulf-wide concentration of chlordanes, dieldrin, and butyltins occurred during 1986-1994. The Gulf-wide median concentrations of DDTs, PAHs, and PCBs exhibited a strong cyclic distribution with time. For Galveston Bay oysters, 'high' concentration is defined as the concentration greater than the median plus one standard deviation for all Gulf of Mexico sites. The percentage of sites having high concentrations during 1986-1994 for Galveston Bay oysters are 49% for dieldrin, 45% for butyltins, 40% for chlordanes, 38% for PCBs, 30% for PAIIs, and 21% for DDTs. For PCBs, 43% of Galveston Bay oyster samples analyzed over the first 9 yr have concentrations high enough for potential biological effects to be observed in oysters. The percentages in other agents were chlordanes (22%), butyltins (22%), dieldrin (5%), and PAHs (4%). National Academy of Science-proposed regulatory limits for oysters were exceeded in only 2% of Galveston Bay samples for DDTs and 1% for PCBs. All other contaminants were below proposed NAS limitsItem Return flows- impact on the Texas Bay systems.(Texas Water Development Board., 1966) Curlington, H.W.; Wells, D.M.; Masch, F.D., Jr.; Copeland, B.J.; Gloyna, E.F.Return flows were developed from population projections, resource availability, water uses, and wastewater releases. Estimates were made in terms of river basins, zones, and areas contiguous to six selected bay systems. Detailed ecological descriptions and exchange estimates were prepared for five of these bays. The study involved a search of existing ecological information, the development of an approximate physical exchange model, and the use of a biological degradation model. These mathematical models were selected to provide estimates of the dissolved oxygen content under various conditions of inflow. Approximately 1.8 million acre-feet of wastewater are produced each year from the non-saline water used by municipalities and industries in Texas. More than two-thirds of the total municipal and industrial return flow produced in Texas passes through one or another of the bays on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Of this amount about two-thirds of the return flow passing through the bays is derived from municipalities and industries located directly on the bays by way of natural watercourses. It is estimated that the direct contribution to each of the bays will increase in the future at a slightly higher rate than will the tributary contribution. There is a wide variation in the quality of the direct contribution of return flow to each bay, but the tributary contribution tends to be much more uniform in quality. The concentration of dissolved oxygen in a bay is generally the most reliable index of the overall condition of the bay. Therefore, one of the major efforts of this study was directed toward the development of mathematical models by means of which the dissolved oxygen level can be evaluated for both present and future loading conditions.Item Use of geographic information systems to examine cumulative impacts of development on Mobile Bay, AL and Galveston Bay, TX(1993 May 24) Roscigno PF; McNiff ME; Watzin MC; Ji WConference papers index