This resource contains the recording for the student symposium titled "Ecosystem Dynamics & Trends Across Seven National Estuarine Research Reserves," a series of presentations given as part of the 2023 catalyst project "Synthesizing long-term SWMP datasets to quantify estuarine ecosystem dynamics and identify trends along an ecological gradient."
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Keywords: data analysis, education (graduate)
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Great Bay, NH, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Padilla Bay, WA, Rookery Bay, FL, South Slough, OR
This toolkit organizes and consolidates content from a combination of literature reviews, SWMP data interpretation, and interviews and exhibit evaluations at multiple reserves into a comprehensive package of resources that is accessible to all education coordinators and exhibit designers in the Reserve System.
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Keywords: SWMP, water quality, education, communication
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Narragansett Bay, RI, Rookery Bay, FL, South Slough, OR, Tijuana River, CA, Weeks Bay, AL
Project Lead Julie Binz (ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve) gives an introduction to "Advancing Science Literacy with a System-wide Monitoring Data Exhibit," a science transfer project funded in 2021 by the NERRS Science Collaborative. The presentation was given at a virtual project workshop in January 2022.
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Keywords: SWMP, water quality, communication, education
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Narragansett Bay, RI, Rookery Bay, FL, South Slough, OR, Tijuana River, CA, Weeks Bay, AL
This web resources includes a compilation of lesson plans for grades K - 12 about coastal and estuarine ecology that are intended to complement programs that involve schools in local wetland restoration projects.
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Keywords: Spartina, K-12 education, salt marsh, restoration
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, North Carolina, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Sapelo Island, GA
This resource contains the presenter slides, Q&A responses, recording, and presenter bios from the July 2020 webinar Innovative Approaches to Integrating Research and K-12 Education to Advance Estuary Stewardship.
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Keywords: education (K-12), education
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Chesapeake Bay, VA, Waquoit Bay, MA
This project overview describes a multi-year collaborative research project that analyzed a suite of living shoreline possibilities for South Carolina to help the state develop a living shoreline policy.
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Keywords: living shoreline, policy, oyster reef
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC
This project overview describes a 2018 Catalyst project where Rookery Bay Reserve staff and University of South Florida researchers are partnered to update and create maps of mangrove habitat to measure changes over time.
A project team in South Carolina received a Notable State Documents Award for their 2019 report titled Summary of Living Shoreline Research to Inform Regulatory Decision-Making in South Carolina.
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Keywords: living shoreline, policy, oyster reef
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC
This story map explains mangrove habitat change at the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve from 2010-2018, illustrating mangrove damage and recovery from Hurricane Irma.
Three related datasets were generated by the 2015 - 2019 collaborative research project Evaluating Living Shorelines to Inform Regulatory Decision-Making in South Carolina.
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Keywords: living shoreline, shoreline stabilization, permitting, GIS
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC