GBWAP Students get Hip 2 Habitat

GBWAP middle school students from The Chinquapin School spent a chilly Texas Coast morning successfully harvesting Spartina from a stock pond at TexasGenco. The next day, these marsh grasses were transplanted into small wading pools at the Chinquapin campus where students will monitor pH, salinity, and temperature for the next several months as the plants reproduce and fill up the pools. In late April, these GBWAP students will replant the new spartina at Pierce Marsh, a habitat restoration project sponsored in part by the Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF).

The Hip 2 Habitat project is a partnering program with GBWAP and is managed and implemented primarily by the Galveston Bay Foundation with assistance provided by TexasGenco and the Natural Resources Soil Conservation Service (NRSCS). The Hip 2 Habitat project is funded by the Kempner Fund and ERM Group Foundation Inc.

For more information on the Hip 2 Habitat Program, please contact Ingrid Norris at inorris@galvbay.org.