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: Sharing your work — even before the final results are analyzed — can lead to many unanticipated benefits, as the Bringing Wetlands to Market project team observed.
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: A logic model can clearly and concisely communicate your project’s goals, objectives, resources, and outcomes to the larger team and your stakeholders. The Our Coast, Our Future project team developed a logic model so that the stakeholders they had engaged in the process could see how the project fit into the complex and dynamic coastal management situation in California.
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.
This guide is designed to be a resource for current and potential oyster growers that want to understand and maximize the water quality benefits of their aquaculture operations.
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Keywords: oyster, nitrogen, water quality, aquaculture
This decision support tool, developed as part of a 2017 collaborative research project, allows users to select different combinations of tidal range, suspended sediment, ditch density, and sea-level rise variables and visualize predicted outcomes over different time frames.