Texas Aquatic Science Chapter 11 Video Introduction

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Texas estuaries and bays provide vital ecosystems and nursery habitat for many important Gulf of Mexico species, feeding and resting places for migrating birds, and billions of dollars to the Texas economy. Estuaries and bays form where rivers meet the ocean, mixing freshwater from far inland with saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico.– Texas Aquatic Science Chapter 11: Estuaries and Bays

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Texas Aquatic Science is a cooperative education project sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife, The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. Additional project support came from the Ewing Halsell Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sport Fish Restoration Program. Rudolph Rosen, Ph.D. wrote and edited the Texas Aquatic Science textbook. Videos were produced by Randall Maxwell. Sandra Johnson, Ph.D. served as educational consultant and authored the accompanying Teacher’s Guide.