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 RESOURCE: This action plan, which emerged through user engagement around the Great Bay Estuary, provides an example of how planning early for end-of-project transitions can successfully fuel future projects with partners.
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Keywords: buffer, living shoreline, watershed, enhance collaboration
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
This web resources includes a compilation of lesson plans for grades K - 12 about coastal and estuarine ecology that are intended to complement programs that involve schools in local wetland restoration projects.
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Keywords: Spartina, K-12 education, salt marsh, restoration
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, North Carolina, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Sapelo Island, GA
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 resource contains the presenter slides, Q&A responses, recording, and presenter bios from the July 2020 webinar Innovative Approaches to Integrating Research and K-12 Education to Advance Estuary Stewardship.
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Keywords: education (K-12), education
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Chesapeake Bay, VA, Waquoit Bay, MA
This resource contains the presenter slides, Q&A responses, recording, and presenter bios from the June 2020 webinar Credit for Going Green: Using an Expert Panel Process to Quantify the Benefits of Buffers.
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Keywords: buffer, stormwater
Reserves: Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, Waquoit Bay, MA
This project overview describes a multi-year collaborative research project that analyzed a suite of living shoreline possibilities for South Carolina to help the state develop a living shoreline policy.
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Keywords: living shoreline, policy, oyster reef
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC
A project team in South Carolina received a Notable State Documents Award for their 2019 report titled Summary of Living Shoreline Research to Inform Regulatory Decision-Making in South Carolina.
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Keywords: living shoreline, policy, oyster reef
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC
Three related datasets were generated by the 2015 - 2019 collaborative research project Evaluating Living Shorelines to Inform Regulatory Decision-Making in South Carolina.
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Keywords: living shoreline, shoreline stabilization, permitting, GIS
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC