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A repository of data, publications, tools, and other products from project teams, Science Collaborative program, and partners.

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Case Study: Begin planning early for next steps
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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Case Study: Resolving Conflict
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.
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Sneak Peek: Connect to Protect: Transferring Conservation Science in New Hampshire’s Coastal Watershed
This project facilitated the transfer of knowledge from the updated 2021 New Hampshire Land Conservation plan to intended users in the Piscataqua watershed region through a focused outreach effort, which included a needs assessment, formal knowledge transfer workshops, and a technical assistance program.
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Case study: Including community leaders on the team
GUIDE CASE STUDY: To be effective, collaborative project teams must include the right skill sets, but it’s also important to include team members who have established relationships with or access to your project’s intended users.
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Posters: Refining techniques for high-frequency monitoring of chlorophyll a in the NERRS
Poster presented at the November 2020 NERRS Annual Meeting - Silas Tanner Poster presented at the February 2021 GTMNERR State of the Reserve Sympos
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5-minute Project Intro: Refining Techniques for High-frequency Monitoring of Chlorophyll Alpha

Project Lead Nikki Dix (Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve) gives a 5-minute introduction to "Refining Techniques for High-frequency Monitoring of Chlorophyll Alpha in the NERRS," a catalyst project funded in 2020 by the NERRS Science Collaborative.

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Best Practices for Conflict Management in Collaborative Science

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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eDNA Data and Results Newsletters

eDNA (environmental DNA) refers to the genetic material found in an environmental sample (water or sediment). eDNA comes from feces, gametes, scales, and cells that an organism sheds, and is easily collected from water and sediment samples.

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Story Map: Mitigating Marshes Against Sea Level Rise

This story map and K-12 activity invites students to explore coastal marsh vulnerability to sea level rise and a collaborative experiment to enhance marsh resilience at the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia.

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Final Workshop Presentation: Synthesizing Salt Marsh Monitoring Data from Four New England NERRs

This final workshop presentation discusses methods and results from a project to sythesize salt marsh monitoring from four New England NERRs from 2010 to 2018.