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YEAR IN SAND - HRI's entrance is
graced by a new sculpture created by TAMU-CC Professor of Art Greg
Reuter. The cube-shaped sculpture explores the textural variations
found at Padre Island National Seashore and reflects the sublime
beauty left behind by natural forces including tides, wind,
vegetation and wildlife.
PHOTO: JEFF JANKO |
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Nature Conservancy Trustees take a boat tour of TAMU-CC's
Laguna Madre Field Station
The Nature Conservancy meets at HRI
The Board of Trustees for The Nature Conservancy of Texas met at HRI
during 9-11 October 2008. Originally planned for
Beaumont, the meeting venue was changed at the last minute to Corpus Christi
due to
Hurricane Ike. Trustees first gathered for a reception on Thursday
evening at the Art Museum of South Texas overlooking the Corpus
Christi harbor entrance and bay. TAMU-CC President Flavius Killebrew,
HRI Executive Director Larry McKinney and several HRI endowed
chairs welcomed the Trustees to HRI and Corpus Christi. After an
all-day meeting on Friday, Trustees were treated to a Saturday
morning boat trip and tour of
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TAMU-CC’s Laguna Madre Field Station
with Trustee and HRI Associate Director
Wes Tunnell, McKinney, and HRI Endowed Research Associate
Professor of Ocean and Human Health Greg Stunz.
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New HRI e-book series launched
HRI launched a new e-book series on the
HRI website earlier this
fall with publication of an English translation/version of a book
published in Spanish in Mexico in 2004. Diagnostico Ambiental del
Golfo de Mexico (Environmental Diagnosis of the Gulf of Mexico) is a
two-volume proceedings published by the Instituto Nacional de
Ecologia in Mexico City following a conference of the same name in Veracruz during 22-23 August 2003. The new e-book, entitled
Environment Analysis of the Gulf
 of Mexico, is edited by Kim Withers
and Marion Nipper, both research scientists in TAMUCC’s
Center for
Coastal Studies. Divided into five parts (physical chemistry, biota,
ecosystems, management and socioeconomics) all 38 chapters can be
viewed or downloaded at:
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