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A repository of data, publications, tools, and other products from project teams, Science Collaborative program, and partners.

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Ecosystem Dynamics & Trends Across Seven National Estuarine Research Reserves
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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Sneak Peek: Bringing Plant-Scale Knowledge to Shoreline Habitat Practitioners in the Lake Superior Basin
Project lead Karina Heim gives a short introduction to "Greener Shores: Bringing Plant-scale Knowledge to Shoreline Habitat Practitioners in the Lake Superior (Gichigami) Basin."
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Case Study: Begin planning early for next steps
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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Case Study: Resolving Conflict
GUIDE CASE STUDY: Collaboration with diverse team members and stakeholders can sometimes result in disagreements or contention, as was the experience of the New England Climate Adaptation Project, a regional initiative involving the four New England reserves.
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Sneak Peek: Connect to Protect: Transferring Conservation Science in New Hampshire’s Coastal Watershed
This project facilitated the transfer of knowledge from the updated 2021 New Hampshire Land Conservation plan to intended users in the Piscataqua watershed region through a focused outreach effort, which included a needs assessment, formal knowledge transfer workshops, and a technical assistance program.
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Case study: Including community leaders on the team
GUIDE CASE STUDY: To be effective, collaborative project teams must include the right skill sets, but it’s also important to include team members who have established relationships with or access to your project’s intended users.
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Case Study: Adjusting to respect different ways of knowing
GUIDE CASE STUDY: To help elevate the cultural significance of plants and preserve their knowledge, Indigenous knowledge holders agreed to advise a project team as they developed a planting guide for the Gichi-gami basin. As discussions began, the team quickly discovered differing expectations about what and how Indigenous knowledge would inform the final guide.
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Sneak Peek: The Future of Site Profiles: An Innovative Cross-Sector Approach to Incorporating End User and Reserve Needs
About the project

Through a 2020 science transfer project, the Lake Superior and Heʻeia reserves and partners brought renewed attention to reserve site profiles and supported the development of a modernized format that better aligns with and boosts the impact of reserve programs.

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St. Louis River Summit Presentation: Building a collaborative water quality monitoring strategy for a changing St. Louis River Estuary
About the project

As people from many communities return to the revitalized St.

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Posters: Refining techniques for high-frequency monitoring of chlorophyll a in the NERRS
Poster presented at the November 2020 NERRS Annual Meeting - Silas Tanner Poster presented at the February 2021 GTMNERR State of the Reserve Sympos