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1986 Dean's Award for Exemplary Teaching, San José State University of California; 1991 Alban Heiser Award for Conservation Activities and Education, the Zoological Society of Houston; 1991-1993 Society for Marine Mammalogy, Elected President; 1998 The Chairman's Award, Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society
10 feet (3.0 m) Settlements. Houston, Pasadena, League City, Baytown, Texas City, Galveston, La Porte, Seabrook, Anahuac. Galveston Bay ( / ˈɡælvɪstən / GAL-vis-tən) is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas. It is the seventh-largest estuary in the United States, [2] and the largest of seven major estuaries ...
The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary ( FGBNMS) is a United States National Marine Sanctuary located 100 nautical miles (190 km) offshore of Galveston, Texas, in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. It contains the northernmost coral reefs in the United States. Underlying salt domes forced the seafloor upward in various areas of the ...
California spiny lobster. The California spiny lobster ( Panulirus interruptus) is a species of spiny lobster found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California, to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. It typically grows to a length of 30 cm (12 in) and is a reddish-brown color with stripes along the legs, and has a pair of enlarged ...
Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895. The round stingray ( Urobatis halleri) or Haller's round ray and Little round stingray is a species of round ray, family Urotrygonidae, found in the coastal waters of the tropical and subtropical parts of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It is a small, common ray that feeds mostly on benthic invertebrates.
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Coastal Rainbow Trout or Steelhead Trout. Oncorhyncus mykiss irideus. Y. California Golden Trout. Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita. Y. Little Kern Golden Trout.
Threadfin shad. The threadfin shad ( Dorosoma petenense) is a small pelagic freshwater forage fish common in lakes, large streams and reservoirs of the Southeastern United States. Like the American gizzard shad, the threadfin shad has an elongated dorsal fin, but unlike the gizzard shad, its mouth is more terminal without a projecting upper jaw.