This toolkit organizes and consolidates content from a combination of literature reviews, SWMP data interpretation, and interviews and exhibit evaluations at multiple reserves into a comprehensive package of resources that is accessible to all education coordinators and exhibit designers in the Reserve System.
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Keywords: SWMP, water quality, education, communication
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Narragansett Bay, RI, Rookery Bay, FL, South Slough, OR, Tijuana River, CA, Weeks Bay, AL
The Connect to Protect project team created this project sustainability plan so that team members could evaluate which science transfer activities should continue, prioritize next steps, and consider ways the work can continue with and without additional funding.
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Keywords: planning, land use planning, ecosystem services, enhance collaboration
This resource contains the outreach materials developed and used during the Connect to Protect project. The project transferred conservation science from the 2021 New Hampshire Coastal Watershed Conservation Plan to help protect and restore estuarine systems in the Piscataqua watershed region using an ecosystem services approach.
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Keywords: ecosystem services, planning, land use planning
As climate change and development threaten the natural and cultural resources of the Guana Peninsula, this 2021 collaborative research project used a combination of archaeological investigations and applied anthropological methods to increase understanding of how people past and present have used the resources to inform their future management.
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Keywords: archaeological sites, cultural ecosystem services, sea level rise
As climate change and development threaten the natural and cultural resources of the Guana Peninsula, this 2021 collaborative research project used a combination of archaeological investigations and applied anthropological methods to increase understanding of how people past and present have used the resources to inform their future management.
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Keywords: cultural ecosystem services, archaeological sites, sea level rise
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 white paper, developed by a 2020 catalyst project, provides an overview of expanding and deepening the application of cultural ecosystem services in the National Estuarine Reserve System.
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Keywords: cultural ecosystem services, ecosystem services
This report summarizes five cultural ecosystem service assessment methods piloted by the 2020 catalyst project, Cultural Ecosystem Services in Estuary Stewardship and Management.
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Keywords: ecosystem services, cultural ecosystem services, assessment, methods, reserve exchange
With funding from the NERRS Science Collaborative, scientists from 12 biogeographically diverse Reserves compared fluorescence measurements taken by the YSI EXO TAL sensor to extracted chlorophyll concentrations processed in the lab.
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Keywords: SWMP, monitoring, harmful algal bloom, water quality, nutrient pollution
Reserves: Elkhorn Slough, CA, Grand Bay, MS, Great Bay, NH, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, He‘eia, HI, Lake Superior, WI, Mission Aransas, TX, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Old Woman Creek, OH, Padilla Bay, WA, Sapelo Island, GA, Wells, ME
Standardized protocols for sensor-based chlorophyll monitoring are now available for use by staff around the system to implement high frequency chlorophyll monitoring at their reserves.
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Keywords: SWMP, monitoring, water quality, nutrient pollution, harmful algal bloom
Reserves: Elkhorn Slough, CA, Grand Bay, MS, Great Bay, NH, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, He‘eia, HI, Lake Superior, WI, Mission Aransas, TX, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Old Woman Creek, OH, Padilla Bay, WA, Sapelo Island, GA, Wells, ME