Galveston Bay Report Card

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The Galveston Bay Foundation (?GBF?) and Houston Advanced Research Center (?HARC?) are working together to deliver critical information about the health of Galveston Bay to the public through a report card, scheduled to be released in early 2015. Everyone who lives near, uses and enjoys Galveston Bay is encouraged to visit www.galvbay.org/reportcard to learn more about the project, take the public interest survey, and submit comments about issues concerning bay health.

The Galveston Bay Report Card will provide the public with citizen-driven, science-based measures to assess the health of the bay, such as the status of key habitats (e.g. wetlands, seagrass, oyster reefs), fish and wildlife populations, trends in water quality of local bayous and the bay, and impacts of coastal change and sea level rise. The selection of specific indicators to be used in the report card will be guided by the public input collected through survey responses and comments submitted.