Skip to main content

Resources

Resources

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

Displaying 1 - 10 of 21
Multimedia |
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."
Case Study |
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.
Case Study |
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.
Case Study |
Case study: Values-based communications
GUIDE CASE STUDY: Understanding beliefs, perceptions, and values of end users increases the potential for reserve-based science to make the greatest impact on surrounding communities. A project led by the Wells Reserve used communication audit and mental mapping techniques to understand the collective beliefs about riparian buffers among reserve staff, their partners and stakeholders. Based on this research, they identified which communication and engagement strategies should be collectively prioritized.
Case Study |
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.
Multimedia |
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.

Multimedia |
Engaging with Cultural Ecosystem Services Across the National Estuarine Research Reserve System

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.

Multimedia |
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.

Multimedia |
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
Multimedia |
5-minute Project Intro: Refining Techniques for High-frequency Monitoring of Chlorophyll Alpha

Project Lead Nikki Dix (Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve) gives a 5-minute introduction to "Refining Techniques for High-frequency Monitoring of Chlorophyll Alpha in the NERRS," a catalyst project funded in 2020 by the NERRS Science Collaborative.