This toolkit organizes and consolidates content from a combination of literature reviews, SWMP data interpretation, and interviews and exhibit evaluations at multiple reserves into a comprehensive package of resources that is accessible to all education coordinators and exhibit designers in the Reserve System.
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Keywords: SWMP, water quality, education, communication
Reserves: ACE Basin, SC, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Narragansett Bay, RI, Rookery Bay, FL, South Slough, OR, Tijuana River, CA, Weeks Bay, AL
GUIDE CASE STUDY: Using language that resonates with stakeholders is critical to an effective exchange of information. See how a team at the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve investigated and adopted the language preferences of their stakeholders in project-related communication.
GUIDE CASE STUDY: Involving younger stakeholders in collaborative projects can provide information about how they perceive, value, and understand the environment and help connect them with environmental stewardship and their community.
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Keywords: K-12 education
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL
This advisory committee charter, developed for a National Estuarine Research Reserve project to evaluate a thin-layer placement as a strategy for marsh resilience, offers an example for engaging diverse end users in collaborative research.
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Chesapeake Bay, VA, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, North Carolina, San Francisco Bay, CA, Waquoit Bay, MA
These coastal hazard risk communication training process agendas can be used to as a model help facilitators develop trainings for coastal decision makers in other communities.
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Keywords: training, resilience, risk communication
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Delaware, Jacques Cousteau, NJ, Narragansett Bay, RI, Weeks Bay, AL
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Chesapeake Bay, VA, Elkhorn Slough, CA, Great Bay, NH, Narragansett Bay, RI, North Carolina, San Francisco Bay, CA, Waquoit Bay, MA
This collection of resources provides instructions for a user-friendly, low-cost tool to estimate wave energy. It was produced by Eric Sparks' team as part of a collaborative research project to evaluate coastal restoration designs.
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Keywords: living shoreline, shoreline stabilization