Brazosport High School
School Website: https://bphs.brazosportisd.net/
2023-2024 field trip data: BrazosportHS2024.pdf
Galleries: 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | 2022-2023 | 2023-2024 | 2024-2025
Brazosport High School in Freeport, Texas, joined THSCMP during the 2018‒2019 academic year. Senior AP Environmental Science students collect data from sites at Surfside Beach and Quintana Beach. Three of the monitoring sites (SURF2, SURF4, and jetty park) are located in Surfside Beach on the southern end of Follets Island (Fig. 1). A fourth site (QUIN1) is located in Brazoria County’s Quintana Beach County Park (Fig. 1).
Figure 1. Location map of Brazosport High School monitoring sites.
Figure 2. Brazosport High School monitoring activities at locations in Surfside Beach. (A) Beach profile data at SURF2 showing changes in the topography between October 2018 and October 2024. (B) Photo looking northeast along the vegetation line at SURF2 on October 23, 2024. (C) GPS mapped shoreline positions from February 2022 and October 2024 between Surfside Jetty County Park and rock revetment protecting Beach Drive. At times, the shoreline position (wet/dry line) is beneath or behind structures that are located on the beach. (D) Beach profile data at SURF4 in Stahlman Park.
Figure 3. Vegetation line mapping and photography at site QUIN1 at Quintana Beach County Park. (A) GPS mapped vegetation line positions from April 2019 through October 2024. The vegetation line position had been stable prior to the 2020 hurricane season. Mapping in May 2021 documented that the vegetation line had moved 15 meters landward. Hurricane Beryl in July of 2024 caused significant damage to the park infrastructure and caused additional landward movement of the vegetation line in some areas. (B) Photos from QUIN1 looking southwest on January 30, 2020; May 18, 2022; and October 23, 2024. Notice the landward movement in the vegetation line position (distance between beach palapas and vegetation) between the 2020 and 2022 photographs. Hurricane Beryl destroyed the beach palapas, damaged the fishing pier, and deposited significant debris along the vegetation line in the park. A wide beach was present in October 2024.
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