GUIDE CASE STUDY: Collaborative science projects are designed to inform and catalyze action, but often those impacts do not develop until after a grant ends. Two project teams working with New England reserves found different ways to support the work of their partners after their grants ended.
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Keywords: enhance collaboration
Reserves: Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, Waquoit Bay, MA, Wells, ME
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 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
Designation of essential fish habitat requires a detailed understanding of how species-specific vital rates vary across habitats and biogeographical regions.
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Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Sapelo Island, GA
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
Project Lead Kaitlyn Dietz (Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR) gives a 5-minute introduction to "Storm Stories: Communicating Hurricane Impacts using Monitoring Data and Visualizations." The presentation was given during a project team workshop in July 2021.
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Keywords: SWMP, communication, hurricane
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Delaware, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, Jobos Bay, PR, North Carolina, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC
The ability to quickly communicate local environmental changes in the aftermath of hurricanes helps impacted communities better understand storm events and support recovery.
Project Lead Brandon Puckett (North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve) gives an introduction to "Bridging the Gap between Quadrats and Satellites: Assessing Utility of Drone-based Imagery to Enhance Emergent Vegetation Biomonitoring," aka "Drone the SWMP," a catalyst project funded in
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Keywords: SWMP, monitoring, habitat mapping
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, Jobos Bay, PR, North Carolina, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Sapelo Island, GA