1 / 12

Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (MANERR)

Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (MANERR). Rae Mooney Department of Marine Science. MANERR. *delineated in black. UT Marine Science Institute. Objectives. Delineate Mission and Aransas Watersheds Analyze Land Use/Land Cover Data

adamdaniel
Download Presentation

Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (MANERR)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (MANERR) Rae Mooney Department of Marine Science

  2. MANERR *delineated in black UT Marine Science Institute

  3. Objectives • Delineate Mission and Aransas Watersheds • Analyze Land Use/Land Cover Data • Analyze Precipitation and Streamflow Data • Effects of Storm Events on Estuary

  4. Mission and Aransas Watershed • NHDPlus (with the help of Tyler Jantzen) • Watershed exports into Copano Bay Mouth of Mission River Mouth of Aransas River

  5. Streamflow

  6. Precipitation • Annual (in/yr) • Graph of monthly Precipitation and Streamflow data *soon to come

  7. Very unpredictable 1991-41cm 1992-81cm 50-year average 30 cm Dunton, K. H., B. Hardegree, and Terry Whitledge. 2001. Responses of estuarine marsh vegetation to interannual variations in precipitation. Estuaries 24:851-861. Texas Coast Weather

  8. Land Use/Land Cover

  9. LULC • Most: Row crops • Pasture/Hay • Grasslands • Orchards/Vineyards • Forests • Fertilizer

  10. Watershed Exports and Storm Events • Calculate Runoff * to be completed • Compare Runoff and Precipitation data * to be completed • Storm Events and LULC • Possible increase N in estuary

  11. Next year at UTMSI… • Surface water samples • Analyze water chemistry • Focus on Storm Events • Non-point source pollution

  12. Questions?? Thanks!

More Related