Calhoun County Marine Agent Receives Funds for Watershed Education
RJ Shelly and his Co-investigators received Over $25 thousand from the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust for public education
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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.
Texas Sea Grant’s team includes administrative staff, program coordination, communications, and extension agents along the Texas coast.
Coastal Science. Community Solutions.
Peer-reviewed publications, resources, and materials.
Volunteer organization of citizens in science, workforce, and education advising on important matters related to TXSG.
Texas Sea Grant partners with many local, government, non-profit, education, and industry organizations.
Texas Sea Grant maintains an extensive network of partnerships spanning federal, state, regional, academic, non-profit, and industry sectors.
Texas Sea Grant’s open positions.
Supports healthy ecosystems by education and outreach, programming, and events on sustainable practices.
Supports development of innovative policies, institutional capacities, and management approaches that increase community resilience.
Promotes environmental literacy by supporting students and the workforce through the development of STEM educational programs, tools, and products.
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
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.
Extension is a two-way transfer of knowledge between researchers and community stakeholders.
Providing science-based programs across all educational levels, enhancing STEM learning in marine-related fields.
Supports innovative, science-based solutions to address environmental, economic, and social challenges.
Texas Sea Grant welcomes the help of the community to help monitor, protect, and clean our coasts.
Trainings, Workshops, Advising, Certification and Technical Assistance.
Find out if Texas Sea Grant is hosting, attending, or leading an event in your area.
Texas Sea Grant supports marine- and coastal-related research at universities across the state through a competitive grant program.
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.
Monthly Texas Sea Grant newsletter.
Get Hooked, quarterly Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Seafood newsletter
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RJ Shelly and his Co-investigators received Over $25 thousand from the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust for public education
Jan 25, 2023 By Alli Dickey
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Port O’Connor, Texas — Texas Sea Grant Calhoun County Marine Extension Agent RJ Shelly and his co-principal investigators Emilee DeForest and Hailey Hayes, of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, received $25,811 from the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust for public education. This is a cooperative project between Texas Sea Grant, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas 4-H in Calhoun County.
The team will use the funds for watershed and waterbody educational programs related to the Lavaca, Matagorda and San Antonio Bay watersheds and ecosystems. Teachers in the area will be offered a free teacher professional development program to learn how to use the watershed education equipment, which they can bring into their classrooms for no cost.
The project will bring hands-on-learning to students to help them understand the relationship between the bay and the surrounding watershed. Shelly says he hopes the project helps students appreciate what is in their own backyard.
The public education fund is one of 15 projects totaling $5.8 million that the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust will fund this year. The trust invests in environmental restoration of the Matagorda and San Antonio Bay systems.
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