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 RESOURCE: This "homework assignment," which was given to attendees the week between two virtual workshop sessions, allowed a project team to gather specific feedback on the function and usability of a tool they were developing.
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.
GUIDE CASE STUDY: Involving younger stakeholders in collaborative projects can provide information about how they perceive, value, and understand the environment and help connect them with environmental stewardship and their community.
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Keywords: K-12 education
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL
Northeastern Florida and the Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR have some of the most intact estuarine ecosystems in the southeastern United States; however, some areas are expected to need targeted management to stabilize land, protect habitat, and maintain surface elevation relative to sea level rise
The ability to quickly communicate local environmental changes in the aftermath of hurricanes helps impacted communities better understand storm events and support recovery.
Monitoring plays a central role in detecting climate and anthropogenic stressors and associated changes in wetlands. There is a need for wetland monitoring programs to bridge the gap between ground-based surveys, which can miss important spatial heterogeneity and cause wetland disturbance, a
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Keywords: monitoring, SWMP, habitat mapping
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, Jobos Bay, PR, North Carolina, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Sapelo Island, GA
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