• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This project promoted access to drones for a wider community of users by transferring a protocol for drone-based wetland monitoring and evaluating its efficacy in assessing and monitoring emergent...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

By engaging 30 reserves from across the country in habitat mapping, this project highlighted differing trends among regions and estuarine habitat types. Working with local and national end users,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This multi-reserve project led by the ACE Basin Reserve convened a series of workshops to provide guidance and assistance on siting, construction, installation, and interpretation of Motus sites...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This project addresses linkages between temperature and sedimentation and ecosystem outcomes using both observational and modeling approaches. The team leveraged the development of a realistic,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-09-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Project Home to roughly one third of the Southeast's estuarine salt marsh acreage, South Carolina faces escalating local and state concerns over marsh vulnerability due to rising sea levels....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2022-08-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Monitoring plays a central role in detecting change in coastal ecosystems. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) invests heavily in assessing changes in tidal wetlands through the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2002-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Water quality observations made over long time periods can provide important feedback to scientists and to local, state, and national resource managers about actions taken to manage, protect, and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2001-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Meteorological data provide information on atmospheric conditions that can affect water quality and biological and physical processes. Core elements currently measured at each National Estuarine...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The National Estuarine Research Reserve System has developed a consistent protocol for monitoring vegetation across the nations estuaries. Eventually, the goal is to be monitoring vegetation...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1995-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Water quality observations made over long time periods can provide important feedback to scientists and to local, state, and national resource managers about actions taken to manage, protect, and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-09-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This project brought together oyster reef managers along the southeastern United States to evaluate the use of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), or drones, as a novel tool for measuring changes in...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Shared impacts and needs following Hurricanes Irma and Maria brought together two reserves to assess mangrove recovery, leading to more holistic decision-making strategies for mangrove restoration...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Stormwater pollution is the number one threat to coastal water quality in North Carolina, where it contributes to beach closures, impacts tourism, and interrupts shellfish harvests. Rapid...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

In Oregon’s Coos Bay, the natural environment is a source of pride and significant economic activity. But as a result of competing interests, the area’s natural resources can also be a source of...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Myrtle Beach is an economic pearl in South Carolina’s grand strand, a sixty-mile stretch of beaches and resort communities that support a multi-billion dollar tourism industry. Fishing and water...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces severely impacts Ohio’s coastal communities and environments. It erodes streams, overloads drainage systems and water treatment facilities, increases...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Oysters are the tiny superheroes of coastal environments. They enhance water quality, create habitat, and protect shorelines from storms and erosion. Along the Pacific Coast, native oysters are in...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

In the struggle to slow climate change, coastal wetlands are a critical asset—acre for acre, they can store up to five times as much carbon as rainforests. When wetlands are damaged or destroyed,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Kachemak Bay is one of Alaska’s most productive, diverse, and intensively-used estuaries. It is also one of the most vulnerable. Local ice fields are melting rapidly, while at the same time the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Along the coast of southern Maine, the need to conserve natural buffers in order to protect rivers and wetlands has become a focal point for tensions between development and conservation...

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