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 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.
PHOTO (RIGHT): Nature Conservancy Trustees take a boat tour of TAMU-CC's
Laguna Madre Field Station
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:
HRI BOOKS
