Conrad Blucher Institute Sponsors
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority
CBI collects water quality data in the lower San Antonio Bay for our sponsor, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA). CBI has been collecting water quality data for GBRA since 2004.
Department of the Interior (DIO-MMS)
U.S. Department of the Interior and US. Fish and Wildlife Service provided funding for the Texas Coastal Observation Network (TCOON) station upgrades utilizing qualified outer continental shelf oil and gas revenues and awarded to CBI through the Coastal Impact Assistance Program.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Department of the Interior and US. Fish and Wildlife Service provided funding for the Texas Coastal Observation Network (TCOON) station upgrades utilizing qualified outer continental shelf oil and gas revenues and awarded to CBI through the Coastal Impact Assistance Program.
United States Army Corps of Engineers
The Unites States Army Corps of Engineers helps provide funding for the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON) and the installation of new state of the art Sentinel monitoring stations.
US Department of Agriculture
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi announces the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Undergraduate- Scholarly Education Research Contact for Hispanics. This Student Experiential Learning model will support five (5) students over the next nine (9) semesters paying for student’s tuition and wages to work on research projects with the USDA. Students will have their tuition paid for and they will receive a pay during the summer to work on research projects conducted at the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. They will be assigned a University professor/research scientist currently conducting critical research for USDA.
University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute
The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute provides funding for CBI to work on telemetry support monitoring.
Sabine-Neches Navigation District
The Sabine-Neches Navigation District provides financial support for operation, maintenance, repair and management of the Sabine Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS).
Port Industries of Corpus Christi
National Park Service
The National Park Service Gulf Coast Inventory and Monitoring Network entered a Task Agreement with the Conrad Blucher Institute in May 2008 to install and maintain two real-time continuous recording water quality stations in the Upper Laguna Madre. Fifteen minute data are collected for temperature, specific conductance, salinity, pH, stage, dissolved oxygen and turbidity. These stations, one at South Bird Island and the other at Baffin Bay, became operational in June 2008. Due to the high biofouling nature of the hyper-saline waters the sites are visited every two weeks.
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
The Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program provides funding for the Nueces Delta Environmental Monitoring project.
City of Corpus Christi
The City of Corpus Christi provides funding to CBI for work on the Packery Channel Monitoring project and the Rincon Bayou Diversion Project – Salinity and Freshwater Inflow Monitoring project.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The Conrad Blucher Institute under contract to the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), a division of NOAA’s National Ocean Service, maintains Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems (PORTS®) along the Gulf Coast. PORTS®is a decision support tool that improves the safety and efficiency of maritime commerce and coastal resource management through the integration of real-time environmental observations, forecasts and other geospatial information. NOAA CO-OPS, via contract, provides funding to CBI for the maintenance of the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON). The NWLON project is part of NOAA’s National Water Level Program (NWLP).
Texas Coastal Management Program
The Wave Climate Monitoring System provides online access to wave measurements and information describing wave characteristics observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Two monitoring stations are located along the Texas Coast near Port Aransas. The National Weather Service (NWS) monitoring station is located 15 nautical miles offshore. The Real Time Navigation System (RTNS) monitoring station is located 3 nautical miles offshore. Project partners include the Texas General Land Office (TGLO) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through a TGLO administered Texas Coastal Management Program grant.
Texas Water Development Board
CBI is proud to partner with the Texas Water Development Board on our TCOON project.
Texas General Land Office
The Texas General Land Office provides support for Conrad Blucher Institute’s Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON)and Coastal Habitat Restoration GIS (CHRGIS). TCOON is a state-of-the-art electronic water monitoring system that provides state and federal coastal managers and the general public with real-time data on tides and environmental parameters along the Texas coast from Sabine Pass to Port Isabel. TCOON will use CIAP funding to upgrade and modernize the electronic equipment at sixteen TCOON stations, expand and improve instrumentation deployment to meet documented national needs and standards. Funding from CIAP will ensure the continued availability of critical scientific coastal water data, as well as real-time data to be utilized during storm impacts, for public safety, and for daily public use.
National Geodetic Survey
In 2005, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science were awarded funding from National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), National Geodetic Survey (NGS) to create the Texas Spatial Reference Center (TSRC) and to implement the National Height Modernization Program in the State of Texas.