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: 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: Interactive workshops engaging stakeholders require time and effort to plan and implement. This project team at the Hudson River NERR held a day-long workshop to share project results and products with approximately 50 stakeholders including engineers, landscape architects, state permitting officials, and researchers.
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
GUIDE CASE STUDY: During the second year of their project, a team based at the Wells Research Reserve suffered the tragic loss of the lead science investigator. This individual had served as the Reserve's research coordinator for many years and possessed a deep reservoir of scientific knowledge about the local ecosystems on which the project was focused. In addition to the intense emotional impact, the loss of a respected researcher and team member posed a significant challenge to the project.
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
This curriculum was developed as part of a 2018 Science Transfer project to share knowledge and lessons learned about managing conflict in collaborative science.
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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