Photos and Graphics Needed
The Mission-Aransas NERR and the University of Texas Marine Science Institute are developing the educational signage for the Wetlands Education Center.
We are looking for graphics and photos to incorporate in this signage. The photos need to be of high resolution and provided to the University of Texas free of charge. Photographers will be credited. If you have one or more of the following images and photos that you would like to donate to this cause, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at 361-749-6764.
Graphics needed:
- Schematic cross section of typical Texas salt marsh from upland to submerged aquatic vegetation in the bay
- Map of Texas Gulf coast with islands and estuaries identified
- Cross section of typical barrier island from Gulf to bay shore
- Cross section of life between the grains at beach waters edge showing ghost shrimp burrow, worms, clams, mole crabs, ghost crab burrow
- Detailed diagrams of specific halophyte plant adaptations (salt glands, salt bladders, succulence, trichomes, and mangrove pneumatophores
- Cross section of marsh mud inverts
- Bird head/beak silhouettes; fiddler crabs & burrows; oyster community
- Map of Central Flyway
- Cross section of typical rock jetty
- Estuarine life cycle of shrimp, fish, crabs
- Map of CC ship channel & Ingleside channel
- List of port products and cargo
- Profile of typical oil tanker, labeled showing draft and load line
- Sea turtle migration and nesting sites of Kemps Ridley
- Water column showing plankton, fish, benthic organisms, nutrient cycling in bay and role each plays in it
General Photos needed:
- High & low salt marsh plant assemblage
- Tidal creek shoreline
- Aerial photo of San Jose and Mustang Islands showing the pass
Maliquite Beach/Port A beach showing comparison between natural and man impacted island beach - Vegetated fore beach on protected beach showing railroad vines, sea oats, dune grasses
- Pier Lab with SWMP station
- Old photo for history of jetties
- Lydia Ann Lighthouse
- Harbor Bridge
- Cargo docks, refineries, dry cargo in yards, tug boats, oil tanker, shrimp boat, freighter, navy ship, oil field supply boats, spud barge, party boat, pilot boat, RV KATY
Bird Photos Needed:
- Great Blue Heron
- Reddish Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Great Egret
- White Ibis
- White faced Ibis
- Avocet
- Black necked Stilt
- Brown Pelican
- White Pelican
- Black Crowned Night Heron
- Spotted Sand Piper
- Black bellied Whistling Duck
- Sanderling
- Caracara
- Northern Harrier
- White Tailed Hawk
- Red Tailed hawk
- Belted Kingfisher
- Laughing Gull
- Ring billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Caspian tern
- Royal Tern
- Sandwich Tern
- Forsters Tern
- Oyster catcher
- Long Billed Curlew
- Black Bellied Plover
- Rudy Turnstone
- Barn Swallow
Invertebrate Photos Needed:
- Fiddler Crabs
- Blue Crabs
- Grass Shrimp
- Commercial Shrimp
- Ghost Crab
- Ghost Shrimp
- Mole Crabs
- Stone Crab
- Auger Snail
- Moon Snail
- Lightening Whelk
- Sand Dollar
- Donax (Bean Clam or Butterfly Clam)
- Angel Wing
- Quahog
- Oyster
- Purple Murex
- Rock Snail
- Zebra Periwinkle
- Polychaete Worms
Vertebrates Photos Needed:
- Coyote
- Rattle Snake (Western & Pigmy)
- Coral Snake
- Coach Whip
- Glass Snake
- Lizards
- Kangaroo Rat
- Jack Rabbit
- Ground Squirrel
- Pocket Gopher
- Ridley
- Green
- Hawksbill
- Loggerhead & Leatherback Sea Turtles
Individual Plant Photos Needed:
- Sea Ox-eye Daisy
- Camphor Daisy
- Annual & Perennial Glasswort
- Saltwort
- Wolfberry
- Sea Purselane
- Sea Lavender
- Spartina
- Black Mangrove
- Marsh Hay
- Railroad Vines with Flowers
- Sea Oats
- Bitter Panicum
- Bushy Bluestem
- Silver Leafed Croton
- Sunflower
- Beach Pea
- Dollar Weed
- Green, Red & Brown Macro Algae
- Sargassum