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Federal
Coastal Hazards Risk Communication: A Technical Assistance Transfer Project within the National Estuarine Research Reserve System - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Risk communication skills are essential for coastal community leaders in order to effectively engage, educate, and trigger behavioral changes that improve resilience... -
Federal
Assessing How Climate Change Will Affect Coastal Habitats in the Northeast - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
A new tool has been developed, the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Coastal Habitats (CCVATCH), to help land managers, decision makers, and... -
Federal
Credit for Going Green: Transfer of an Expert Elicitation Method to Develop Pollutant Load Reduction Rates for Buffers that Count Toward MS4 Permits - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Credit for Going Green project team worked with a panel of experts to generate science-based recommendations to calculate the pollutant removal rate of buffers in... -
Federal
Testing Low-cost, Ultra-portable, Carbon Dioxide and Methane Sensors for Monitoring Salt Marsh Ecosystem Services, Resilience, and Restoration - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Across all five New England reserves, this project team will deploy a novel sensor package to measure greenhouse gases and develop a salt marsh greenhouse gas... -
Federal
Effects of Sea Level Rise on New England Salt Marshes: A Workshop Led by the New England Research Reserves - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
To build capacity for addressing salt marsh resilience, the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, in collaboration with the three other New England... -
Federal
Synthesizing Monitoring Data to Improve Coastal Wetland Management Across New England - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project synthesized Sentinel Site data for four New England National Estuarine Research Reserves (Great Bay, Narragansett, Waquoit Bay, and Wells), which have... -
Federal
Thin-layer Sediment Placement: Evaluating an Adaptation Strategy to Enhance Coastal Marsh Resilience - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Thin-layer placement (TLP) is an emergent climate adaptation strategy that mimics natural deposition processes in tidal marshes by adding a small amount of sediment... -
Federal
Teachers on the Estuary: Investigating a Changing Environment - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The four national estuarine research reserves in New England will work together to share existing and develop new educational resources for the classroom teachers...