Environmental, Human Health and Safety
Implementing Organization
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, University of Texas Medical Branch
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$313,504
Known Leveraged Funding
$215,586
Funding Organization
The U.S. Department of Treasury
Funding Program
The RESTORE Act Funds Bucket 5: Centers of Excellence Research Grant Program
Details
Project Category
Science
Project Actions
Programmatic
Targeted Resources
Human and/or Institutional Capacity
Project Description
Texas OneGulf consortium will use Center of Excellence funding to create a Disaster Research Response capability that can be employed by Natural Resource Trustees to rapidly assess the impact of disasters along the Texas Gulf coast in real-time. The state of Texas, through Texas OneGulf will be the first to combine human-health focused resources with experts in marine and ocean science, policy and law, and interface with sophisticated data acquisition, management and retrieval programs (Texas Knowledge Base). Texas OneGulf will implement the disaster research response (DR2) system consisting of coordinated environmental health disaster research data collection tools and a network of trained research responders.
Contact
Brenda Allred(512)239-0269
Brenda.Allred@tceq.texas.gov
Project Website
Cheryl Walker, Cornelius Elferink
Grant funds to support a communications strategy for Texas OneGulf, including that development and implementation of a communication strategy that will advance Texas OneGulf projects and activities with the goal of informing Texas researchers and the public about TOCOE initiatives.