Texas A&M University at Galveston's Regents Professor Dr. Peter Santschi, along with his research team, has recently established a ground-breaking method with which to trace radioactive particles in the environment.

A healthy Texas coastline is not only important for recreation, fishing and shipping, but it could also be essential in adapting to the threat of climate change.

Dr. Peter Santschi, professor of Marine Sciences at Texas A&M University at Galveston and of Oceanography at Texas A&M University has received funding for two major research studies. Santschi, who specializes in Environmental RadioBioGeoChemistry, will be heading both grant-funded projects through 2012.