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Grasses Shape and Protect Coastal Dunes in Different Ways
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The investigators surveyed the distribution of plants, shape and size of plants, and associated change in sand elevation of the four plants along the ...
Underwater Grasses Can Improve the Acid Balance in Chesapeake Bay
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Surface view of the Vallisneria americana SAV beds at Susquehanna Flats. a broad, tidal freshwater region located near the mouth of the Susquehanna ...
Combination of Shoreline Stabilization Approaches Offers Best Long-term ...
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NCCOS-funded researchers found that native and invasive marsh grasses in Chesapeake Bay provide different degrees of flood protection depending on ...
Research Shows Hardened Shorelines Threaten Seagrass
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A new study funded by NCCOS shows that shoreline hardening—adding structures like seawalls and riprap in an effort to protect coastal land and ...
[PDF] Defining Protocols for Replanting as an Oil Spill Response Tactic in ...
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill, NOAA and the unified response investigated a wide variety of clean-up tactics in the most heavily impacted coastal ...
New Study Examines the Role of Roots and Below Ground Plant Structures ...
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For example, Ammophila breviligulata has longer leaves and accumulates biomass quickly. When this information is combined with the fact that Ammophila ...
Can Meadows of Underwater Grasses Help Mitigate the Harmful Effects of ...
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Underwater Grasses Can Improve the Acid Balance in Chesapeake Bay (2020) Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Seagrass Ecosystems
Guidelines for the Conservation and Restoration of Seagrasses in the ...
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This document presents an overview of the current state of seagrass conservation and restoration in the United States, discusses important issues that ...
Management of Wetland Impoundments for Fish, Mosquitos and Waterfowl ...
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The results showed that managed diked wetlands had fewer rare native plant species compared to natural tidal wetlands, more human preferred plant ...
Living Shorelines in Chesapeake Bay Improve Benthic Communities
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A new NCCOS-funded study tracked the effects of living shoreline construction on benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrate animal communities in ...
Maptite - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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ArcGIS extension that Identifies suitable locations for planting native marsh grasses during coastal wetland restoration. Aquaculture application ...
Defining Protocols for Replanting as an Oil Spill Response Tactic in ...
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Highly productive saltmarsh ecosystems (or estuaries) serve as sensitive habitats for many recreationally and commercially important species of fish ...
If You Build It, Is It Worth It? The Value of Restoring Coastal Sand ...
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This image is an example of one of the choice cards given to survey participants regarding coastal and dune restoration options (Nguyen et al. 2023 ...
Beach Width Provides Greatest Protection Against Flooding, Erosion ...
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This approach is very useful for evaluating beach and dune shapes under specific storms to inform beach and dune management options such as adding ...
The Effect of Sand Fencing on the Structure of Natural Dune Systems
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Sand fencing on Bogue Banks, NC. Photo: NOAA Figure 1. A conceptual model of the processes that influence dune formation of a fenced seaward dune in ...
A 2025 Assessment of Metals, Legacy Contaminants, and Contaminants of ...
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The immense upwelling of nutrients and the combined productivity of seaweed, salt marsh grasses, and phytoplankton make the Gulf of Maine one of the ...
Studying Contaminants in Cocos Lagoon, Guam: Blog Post #2
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Our first day of sampling in Cocos Lagoon. This morning, we drove to the Guam EPA operations building in Barrigada. There, we met up with our ...
Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Seagrass Ecosystems
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In a treatise, professor and seagrass ecologist/physiologist Dr. Richard Zimmerman reflects on the history of seagrass ecosystems research and ...
Location, Inundation, and Nitrogen Availability Drive Salt Marsh Carbon ...
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Two publications resulting from U.S. Department of Defense-funded research to support ecosystem-based management in coastal military installations ...