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NERRS Science Collaborative Awards $4.9 Million to Enhance Coastal Resiliency
Published: Monday, October 22, 2012

The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Science Collaborative has awarded approximately $4.9 million to fund nine collaborative research projects aimed at making coastal communities and environments more resilient in a time of rising sea levels and a changing climate.

These projects are designed to bring community stakeholders who need to use the science to make decisions into the research process, so that their perspectives can inform how problems are defined and addressed, and ultimately how the resulting science is used.

Over the next two years, Reserve-led project teams from South Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Alabama, Oregon, and California will work with stakeholders from the public and private sectors to generate science to address a range of problems, including community adaptation to sea level rise, implementation of Low Impact Development (LID) land use practices, oyster and wetland restoration, and river and watershed management.

Download an overview of the funded projects.

Learn more about projects funded in 2010 and 2011.


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