Coastal Center News

Texas Society for Ecological Restoration Tours CC
November, 2024

Coastal Center

As part of the annual conference for the Texas Society for Ecological Restoration in November, ~40 attendees from across Texas toured the prairie restorations at the CC. Afterward, students from the University of North Texas got their hands dirty and helped control tallow.

August 27, 2024

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement

In 2022, Houston, Texas became a nexus for field campaigns aiming to further our understanding of the feedbacks between convective clouds, aerosols, and atmospheric boundary layer properties. Eight research teams collected data from 14 sites distributed within a ~80-km radius around Houston over 46 days between 2 June and 18 September 2022. The data will facilitate numerical simulations and the fundamental study of atmospheric processes. The CC was one of the 14 study sites. The entire data set is now available online.

Soil Carbon Study
February 6, 2024

Presentation by Resource Environmental Solutions

Thanks to the support of coastal prairie enthusiast Beth Robertson, the University of Houston Coastal Center was able to accept a proposal by Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) to undertake a soil carbon baseline study at its facility at La Marque in Galveston County. Soil cores and vegetation surveys were performed at 77 sampling sites at the 925-acre CC facility, with the undisturbed soils of the central Aumann Prairie serving as the reference prairie. The study also included following the same sampling protocols at 15 sites at the Lawther-Deer Park Prairie in Harris County as a comparison prairie.

January 24, 2024

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Coastal Center Create opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange.

Houston Regional Ecology & Evolution Symposium meets at CC
May 5, 2023

Coastal Center

The CC hosted the 2023 meeting of the Houston Regional Ecology & Evolution Symposium, with excellent presentations by our colleagues from several local institutions.