Each National Estuarine Research Reserve develops a site profile synthesizing knowledge about its physical, historical, social and biological characteristics to guide research activities. This digital site profile helps users orient to the Lake Superior Reserve and understand its context.
This resource is a collection of media materials developed for education and outreach for the NY-NJ Eel Partnership that emerged from a two-year science transfer project focused on community eel monitoring.
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Keywords: communication, community science, eels, education (place-based)
This resource contains the presenter slides, Q&A responses, recording, and presenter bios from the October 2023 webinar "Building Capacity for Reserves to be Motus Wildlife Tracking Leaders."
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Keywords: shorebird habitat, climate change, estuarine habitat, wildlife, motus
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Grand Bay, MS, Hudson River, NY, San Francisco Bay, CA
Cultural ecosystem services (CES), one of four main categories of ecosystem services, are often described as the non-material benefits that humans receive from their interactions with the environment.
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Reserves: He‘eia, HI, Kachemak Bay, AK, Tijuana River, CA, Wells, ME
This white paper, developed by a 2020 catalyst project, provides an overview of expanding and deepening the application of cultural ecosystem services in the National Estuarine Reserve System.
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Keywords: cultural ecosystem services, ecosystem services
This report summarizes five cultural ecosystem service assessment methods piloted by the 2020 catalyst project, Cultural Ecosystem Services in Estuary Stewardship and Management.
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Keywords: ecosystem services, cultural ecosystem services, assessment, methods, reserve exchange
This resource contains the presenter slides, Q&A responses, recording, and presenter bios from the September 2022 webinar "Cultural Ecosystem Services in Estuary Stewardship and Management."
This 2022 paper which appeared in Nature discusses a modeling approach to examine the marsh ’s buffering capacity in a changing climate (from 2020 to 2100), considering a potential marsh restoration plan (from 2020 to 2025) and potential marsh loss due to sea-level rise.