Abstract:
In 1989 the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI)
at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi commenced the installation of a
modern state-of-the-art water-level measurement system along the Texas
coast. The first measurement systems installed by CBI were intended to
provide real-time water-level and meteorological information to the
City of Corpus Christi to assist local officials
... with preparations for
incoming hurricanes and tropical storms. From this initial work, other
state agencies such as the Texas General Land Office and the Texas
Water Development Board began contracting CBI to provide similar
information for other areas along the Texas coast. Following a Texas
Legislative mandate in 1991, this network of water level gauges became
the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON). As a result,
TCOON expanded from an initial three stations in Corpus Christi in
1989 to over forty stations by 1992. 
