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Item Aerial Photographic Survey of Texas Gulf Passes(Texas Game and Fish Commission, 1959) Leary, Terrance R.No abstract available.Item Jumbile Cove Restoration Project, West Bay, Galveston, Texas(Galveston Bay Estuary Program, 2003) O'Brien, Cherie L.; The Sixth Biennial State of the Bay Symposium January 14-16, 2003The restoration site is located in Jumbile (Jumbilee) Cove, one of several small embayments on the bay side of Galveston Island, Texas. Past land surface subsidence (Morton and Paine, 1990) and erosion from severe winter storms have caused significant wetland loss in the Jumbile Cove project area and adjacent marshes dominated by Spartina alterniflora. A review of aerial photographs from 1930 to 1995 show the disappearance and shrinkage of shoreline reef berms, vegetated land spits, and other emergent shoreline features in addition to formerly protected intertidal marshes. Small isolated lagoons between land spits, small bayous, and tidal ponds, many of which were formerly vegetated with seagrasses, have become seasonally turbid open embayments devoid of vegetation.Item Remote Sensing - Wetlands(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1974) Linthurst, Rick A.; Reimold, Robert J.Coastal wetlands present an extremely harsh physical environment in which a variety of organisms survive. That is, despite their subjection to periodical wet and dry conditions as a result of tidal inundation and to alternating warm and cold cycles daily, the coastal wetlands provide one of the most biologically and ecologically valuable habitats presently known (Reimol and Linthurst, 1973). Estuaries, for example, serve as a nursery ground for marine organisms by providing food and protection from larger predators. The wetlands also serve as a physical barrier to protect the coast from severe erosion during coastal storms and hurricanes. There exists a variety of scientific methodologies to examine and study the importance and complexity of these wetlands systems. Fornes and Reimold (1973), Reimold et al. (1972), and Thompson et al. (1973) have considered remote sensing technology as applicable to several specific wetland problems. It will be the purpose of this paper to summarize and examine multiple uses of remote sensing of wetlands and their potential applications to similar systems.Item Southeast Texas Isolated Wetlands and Their Role in Maintaining Estuarine Water Quality(Galveston Bay Estuary Program, 2003) Sipocz, Andrew; The Sixth Biennial State of the Bay Symposium January 14-16, 2003There are approximately 3.3 million acres of freshwater wetland on the Texas coastal plain. They are the most rapidly decreasing coastal wetland type in Texas and are being lost most rapidly from the Galveston Bay and nearby estuarine watersheds (Moulton et al. 1997). This study evaluated the potential for freshwater isolated wetlands to positively affect water quality by documenting their role in the surface hydrology of southeast Texas estuarine watersheds.