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About

The Texas Sea Grant College Program is a collaboration of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the State of Texas and universities across the state.

Who we are

Texas Sea Grant’s team includes administrative staff, program coordination, communications, and extension agents along the Texas coast.

What we do

Coastal Science. Community Solutions.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications, resources, and materials.

Advisory Committee

Volunteer organization of citizens in science, workforce, and education advising on important matters related to TXSG.

Our Partners

Texas Sea Grant partners with many local, government, non-profit, education, and industry organizations.

Partner With Us

Texas Sea Grant maintains an extensive network of partnerships spanning federal, state, regional, academic, non-profit, and industry sectors.

Careers

Texas Sea Grant’s open positions.

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  • 18-23 TXSG Strategic Plan
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Focus Areas

Explore Texas Sea Grant’s focus areas.

Focus Areas

Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

Supports healthy ecosystems by education and outreach, programming, and events on sustainable practices.

Resilient Communities and Economies

Supports development of innovative policies, institutional capacities, and management approaches that increase community resilience.

 
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Promotes environmental literacy by supporting students and the workforce through the development of STEM educational programs, tools, and products.

Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

Works to ensure safe, secure, and sustainable supplies of domestic seafood and decrease our reliance on seafood imports, and support healthy fish stocks and vibrant recreational fisheries

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  • Contact an Extension Agent
  • Partner with Us
  • Funding
Serving Our Coasts

Texas Sea Grant’s outreach serves the communities and regions of the Texas coast. Science for the sustainable management and conservation of Texas’ coastal and marine resources is central to Texas Sea Grant’s mission.

Collaboration Opportunities

In Our Communities

Extension is a two-way transfer of knowledge between researchers and community stakeholders.

Through Education

Providing science-based programs across all educational levels, enhancing STEM learning in marine-related fields.

Through Funded Research

Supports innovative, science-based solutions to address environmental, economic, and social challenges.

 
Through Volunteering

Texas Sea Grant welcomes the help of the community to help monitor, protect, and clean our coasts.

Through Workforce Development

Trainings, Workshops, Advising, Certification and Technical Assistance.

Events Calendar

Find out if Texas Sea Grant is hosting, attending, or leading an event in your area.

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  • Our Impact
  • Student Opportunities
Funding

Texas Sea Grant supports marine- and coastal-related research at universities across the state through a competitive grant program.

Research Funding

Biennial Research Competition
CLOSED – NOAA Sea Grant Marine, Coastal, and Great Lakes National Aquaculture Initiative
Request For Proposals
Texas Sea Grant Award Reporting

Funding for Students

NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship and Digital Coast Fellowship
Community Engaged Internship
John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
CLOSED-National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program
Ralph Rayburn Scholarship
 
Past and Current Knauss Fellows from Texas
Make a Gift
News

Texas Sea Grant will continue to support cutting-edge research in the areas of marine-related energy sources, climate change, coastal processes, energy efficiency, hazards, storm water management and tourism.

Newsletters and Publications

Subscribe to Tidings Newsletter

Monthly Texas Sea Grant newsletter.

Subscribe to Get Hooked Newsletter

Get Hooked, quarterly Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Seafood newsletter

 
Texas Shores Magazine

Annual magazine about education, outreach, and research supported by Texas Sea Grant.

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  • Publications
Texas A&M University
Sea Grant Texas at Texas A&M University
  • Division of Research
About

The Texas Sea Grant College Program is a collaboration of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the State of Texas and universities across the state.

Who we are

Texas Sea Grant’s team includes administrative staff, program coordination, communications, and extension agents along the Texas coast.

What we do

Coastal Science. Community Solutions.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications, resources, and materials.

Advisory Committee

Volunteer organization of citizens in science, workforce, and education advising on important matters related to TXSG.

Our Partners

Texas Sea Grant partners with many local, government, non-profit, education, and industry organizations.

Partner With Us

Texas Sea Grant maintains an extensive network of partnerships spanning federal, state, regional, academic, non-profit, and industry sectors.

Careers

Texas Sea Grant’s open positions.

Quicklinks
    NOAA
    18-23 TXSG Strategic Plan
    Contact Us
Focus Areas

Explore Texas Sea Grant’s focus areas.

Focus Areas

Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

Supports healthy ecosystems by education and outreach, programming, and events on sustainable practices.

Resilient Communities and Economies

Supports development of innovative policies, institutional capacities, and management approaches that increase community resilience.

Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Promotes environmental literacy by supporting students and the workforce through the development of STEM educational programs, tools, and products.

Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

Works to ensure safe, secure, and sustainable supplies of domestic seafood and decrease our reliance on seafood imports, and support healthy fish stocks and vibrant recreational fisheries

Quicklinks
    Contact an Extension Agent
    Partner with Us
    Funding
Serving Our Coasts

Texas Sea Grant’s outreach serves the communities and regions of the Texas coast. Science for the sustainable management and conservation of Texas’ coastal and marine resources is central to Texas Sea Grant’s mission.

Collaboration Opportunities

In Our Communities

Extension is a two-way transfer of knowledge between researchers and community stakeholders.

Through Education

Providing science-based programs across all educational levels, enhancing STEM learning in marine-related fields.

Through Funded Research

Supports innovative, science-based solutions to address environmental, economic, and social challenges.

Through Volunteering

Texas Sea Grant welcomes the help of the community to help monitor, protect, and clean our coasts.

Through Workforce Development

Trainings, Workshops, Advising, Certification and Technical Assistance.

Events Calendar

Find out if Texas Sea Grant is hosting, attending, or leading an event in your area.

Quicklinks
    Our Impact
    Student Opportunities
Funding

Texas Sea Grant supports marine- and coastal-related research at universities across the state through a competitive grant program.

Research Funding

Biennial Research Competition
CLOSED – NOAA Sea Grant Marine, Coastal, and Great Lakes National Aquaculture Initiative
Request For Proposals
Texas Sea Grant Award Reporting

Funding for Students

NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship and Digital Coast Fellowship
Community Engaged Internship
John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
CLOSED-National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program
Ralph Rayburn Scholarship
Past and Current Knauss Fellows from Texas
Make a Gift
News

Texas Sea Grant will continue to support cutting-edge research in the areas of marine-related energy sources, climate change, coastal processes, energy efficiency, hazards, storm water management and tourism.

Newsletters and Publications

Subscribe to Tidings Newsletter

Monthly Texas Sea Grant newsletter.

Subscribe to Get Hooked Newsletter

Get Hooked, quarterly Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Seafood newsletter

Texas Shores Magazine

Annual magazine about education, outreach, and research supported by Texas Sea Grant.

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Bathymetry Maps

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Outer Continental Slope

T. L. Holcombe, W. J. Renteria, and W. R. Bryant

This 36″x 48″ map covers the entire northwestern Gulf of Mexico, stretching across the Continental Shelf, Continental Slope, Mississippi Deep-sea Fan, and Ocean Basin. The contour interval is 2 meters on the Continental Shelf, 10 meters across the Shelf-Slope Break, and 40 meters across the Continental Slope and Ocean Basin. Sources are the entire array of NOAA hydrographic surveys and multibeam surveys, recent multibeam surveys of banks and other features of limited areal extent, and additional trackline data from random sources. Most of the underlying data are available from the NOAA Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).  

  • DeSoto Canyon Area
  • Mississippi Delta Area
  • Mississippi Fan Area
  • Main Area Northeast
  • Main Area Northwest
  • Main Area Southeast
  • Main Area Southwest
  • Upper Continental Slope Off East Texas
  • Upper Continental Slope Off South Texas
  • Area Northeast of Bright Bank
  • Area South of Bright Bank
  • Area South of Geyer Bank

Maps of Outer Shelf Banks

T. L. Holcombe, W. R. Bryant, and S. W. Bednarz

This 37″ x 75″ map integrates the bathymetry of the Continental Shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, seamlessly with topographical maps of the coast, from Brownsville at the southern tip of Texas to the mouth of the Mississippi River in eastern Louisiana. Sources of bathymetry are some 3.5 million soundings from 291 historic NOAA hydrographic surveys conducted between 1930 and 2003. The underlying bathymetric sounding data are archived and made available by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). 

  • Stetson Bank
  • Claypile Bank – Northern Half
  • Bright, Rankin, and 28 Fathom Banks
  • MacNeil and 29 Fathom Banks
  • Geyer Bank
  • Flower Garden Banks
  • West Flower Garden Bank
  • East Flower Garden Bank
  • Sonnier Bank
  • Parker and Flying Dutchman Banks
  • Alderdice Bank
  • Diaphus Bank
  • Jakkula Bank
  • Bouma, Bryant, McGrail, Rezak, and Sidner Banks
Maps of Bathymetry and Land Topography

Texas-Louisiana Coastal Region

T.L. Holcombe, C.A. Arias, and W.R. Bryant

This 37″ x 75″ map contains bathymetry of 26 separate outer-shelf banks, 25 at a 1-meter contour interval and one at a 1/2-meter contour interval. All are indexed to a large bathymetric map of the Continental Shelf. Sources of bathymetry are multibeam surveys conducted by USGS, NOAA and HRI in 1998-2006. Individual maps of the banks are available at the link to the left.

Bathymetry and Land Topography

  • Brownsville Area
  • Corpus Christi Area
  • Rockport Area
  • Port Lavaca Area
  • Freeport Area
  • Houston Area
  • Galveston Area
  • Port Arthur Area
  • Abbeville Area
  • Morgan City Area
  • New Orleans Area
  • Chalmette Area

Bathymetry of Banks and Other Areas

  • Aransas Bank Area
  • Stetson Bank Area
  • MacNeil Bank Area
  • Bouma Bank Area
  • Ewing Bank Area
  • Ship Shoal Area
  • Southwest Pass Area

Maps of South Texas Banks

T.L. Holcombe, N.C. Slowey, and L.H. Holcombe; and J.W. Tunnell, Jr., H.L. Nash, and T.C. Shirley

This 37″ X 35″ map contains bathymetry of 15 banks on the South Texas Continental Shelf, all having a contour interval of one meter. All are indexed to a large bathymetric map of the South Texas Continental Shelf. Bathymetric data were collected in 2012 by the Schmidt Oceanographic Institute, Palo Alto, CA, and made available by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. 

  • 9 Fathom Bank
  • Aransas Bank
  • Baker Bank
  • Big Adam Bank
  • Blackfish Bank
  • Dream Bank
  • Harte Bank
  • Hospital Rock Bank
  • Mysterious Banks
  • North Hospital Bank
  • Seabree Bank
  • Small Adam Bank
  • South Baker Bank
  • Southern Bank
  • Steamer Bank
On This Page
  • Outer Continental Slope
  • Maps of Outer Shelf Banks
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Region
  • Maps of South Texas Banks
  • Outer Continental Slope
  • Maps of Outer Shelf Banks
  • Texas-Louisiana Coastal Region
  • Maps of South Texas Banks
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