This guide outlines a structured process to engage experts and develop timely, science-based solutions to environmental problems. The FAST process provides an iterative, weight-of-evidence approach for these experts to reach general agreement around technical recommendations.
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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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This technical memo presents guidelines for calculating the pollutant removal rate of restored or constructed buffers established on shorelines with different soils, slopes and buffer widths. This tool can help New England communities use buffers to meet water quality standards and fulfill stormwater permitting requirements.
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This document summarizes a December 2017 workshop hosted by Mission-Aransas Reserve that explored ways to generate a return on investment from wetland preservation and restoration projects in Texas.
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This high school STEM curriculum module, created as part of the project Bringing Wetlands to Market Phase 1: Nitrogen and Coastal Blue Carbon, examine the relationship between climate change impacts and carbon storage in New England salt marsh.
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This document provides guidance to those wishing to use the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Coastal Habitats ("CCVATCH") - a decision support tool which guides users through a series of questions to calculate numerical climate vulnerability scores for ecological habitats.
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This tool is a novel approach to compare the resilience of different marshes to sea level rise.
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This index is a self-assessment tool that the Wells Reserve adapted from the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium for use in Maine's Beaches region.
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These process agendas provide a better understanding of how the CCVATCH tool may be applied over the course of one or multiple days by an assessment team.
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This model is a power-law based model developed by using data for four different wetlands in Waquoit Bay and Great Pond estuaries, MA. It was developed as part of a 2011 Collaborative Research project, "Bringing Wetlands to Market in Massachusetts."