This user-friendly tool predicts greenhouse gas fluxes and potential carbon storage in coastal wetlands in the northeastern United States. It was developed as part of the Bringing Wetlands to Market project.
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Keywords: blue carbon, modeling, greenhouse gas
Reserves: Waquoit Bay, MA
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This collection features blue carbon work completed by project teams from 2010-2019. The collection includes a detailed management brief narrative, an infographic showing the progress of blue carbon work across the U.S., and a webinar recording from a panel discussion on March 17, 2020.
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Keywords: blue carbon, carbon finance, ecosystem services
Reserves: Apalachicola, FL, Grand Bay, MS, Kachemak Bay, AK, Mission Aransas, TX, Padilla Bay, WA, Rookery Bay, FL, South Slough, OR, Waquoit Bay, MA, Weeks Bay, AL
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This collection features climate resilience and adaptation work completed by project teams from 2015-2018. The collection includes a detailed management brief narrative, an infographic showing how the interconnected nature of the NERRS facilitates collective learning and accelerated action, and a webinar recording from a panel discussion on September 9, 2019.
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Keywords: climate resilience, climate adaptation, science usability
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Delaware, Great Bay, NH, Hudson River, NY, Jacques Cousteau, NJ, Kachemak Bay, AK, Lake Superior, WI, Narragansett Bay, RI, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Old Woman Creek, OH, San Francisco Bay, CA, Tijuana River, CA, Waquoit Bay, MA, Weeks Bay, AL, Wells, ME
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This guide outlines a structured process to engage experts and develop timely, science-based solutions to environmental problems. The FAST process provides an iterative, weight-of-evidence approach for these experts to reach general agreement around technical recommendations.
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Keywords: decision making, policy, collaboration
Reserves: Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, Waquoit Bay, MA
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This technical memo presents guidelines for calculating the pollutant removal rate of restored or constructed buffers established on shorelines with different soils, slopes and buffer widths. This tool can help New England communities use buffers to meet water quality standards and fulfill stormwater permitting requirements.
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Keywords: stormwater, water quality, buffer, permitting, nutrient pollution, nonpoint source pollution
Reserves: Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, Waquoit Bay, MA
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This document summarizes a December 2017 workshop hosted by Mission-Aransas Reserve that explored ways to generate a return on investment from wetland preservation and restoration projects in Texas.
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Keywords: blue carbon, carbon finance, education, outreach
Reserves: Mission Aransas, TX, Waquoit Bay, MA
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Keywords: climate adaptation, sea level rise, storm, role-play simulation
Reserves: Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, Waquoit Bay, MA, Wells, ME
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This tool is a novel approach to compare the resilience of different marshes to sea level rise.
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Keywords: wetland resilience, Sentinel Site, data synthesis
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Chesapeake Bay, MD, Chesapeake Bay, VA, Delaware, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Grand Bay, MS, Great Bay, NH, Hudson River, NY, Narragansett Bay, RI, North Carolina, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Padilla Bay, WA, San Francisco Bay, CA, South Slough, OR, Tijuana River, CA, Waquoit Bay, MA
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These process agendas provide a better understanding of how the CCVATCH tool may be applied over the course of one or multiple days by an assessment team.
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Keywords: CCVATCH, vulnerability assessment
Reserves: Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, Waquoit Bay, MA, Wells, ME
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This model is a power-law based model developed by using data for four different wetlands in Waquoit Bay and Great Pond estuaries, MA. It was developed as part of a 2011 Collaborative Research project, "Bringing Wetlands to Market in Massachusetts."
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Keywords: blue carbon, carbon finance, nitrogen, modeling
Reserves: Waquoit Bay, MA