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
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.
GUIDE CASE STUDY: A team from the South Slough reserve modified their collaborative approach as a result of end user preferences in their project, Bringing the “Oly” Oyster Back to Oregon’s Coast.
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.
Thin-layer sediment placement (TLP) is a promising management tool for enhancing tidal marsh resilience to rising seas.
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Keywords: thin-layer sediment, wetland resilience
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Chesapeake Bay, VA, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, North Carolina, San Francisco Bay, CA, Waquoit Bay, MA
This 2021 article which appeared in Estuaries and Coasts provides a synthesis of native oyster restoration projects conducted from California, USA, to British Columbia, Canada.
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Keywords: oyster, restoration
Reserves: Elkhorn Slough, CA, Padilla Bay, WA, San Francisco Bay, CA, South Slough, OR, Tijuana River, CA
This article, published in JGR Oceans in 2020, describes the use of a high-resolution model of water and sediment dynamics used in the Coos Bay estuary in Oregon to assess how 150 years of modification have altered sediment storage and transport.
This article, published in Stormwater Magazine in September 2020, describes how an expert panel process helped develop performance curves to assign regulatory credit for restored or constructed buffers as water quality best management practices.
This article, which appeared in Global Change Biology, discusses findings from a study that quantified total ecosystem carbon stocks of major tidal wetland types in the Pacific Northwest.
These four case studies give examples of four best practices for conflict management in collaborative science. They were developed as part of the Resilience Dialogues project to share lessons learned about effective collaboration from within the National Estuarine Research Reserve System.
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Keywords: conflict management, training
Reserves: Grand Bay, MS, Great Bay, NH, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, Hudson River, NY, Lake Superior, WI, Mission Aransas, TX, Narragansett Bay, RI, North Carolina, Old Woman Creek, OH, Rookery Bay, FL, San Francisco Bay, CA, Waquoit Bay, MA, Wells, ME