Monitoring, News, Research, Science
With sea level on the rise, researchers at UNH are looking into the best way to protect our coastal salt marshes. Working in collaboration with Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, researchers are able to implement different techniques to prevent salt marsh erosion due to sea level rise. This post is the first of two, highlighting two graduate students working on salt marsh resiliency and restoration techniques.
Monitoring, News, Research, Science
When healthy, sea grasses form dense underwater meadows that provide many benefits to bay organisms and us, including producing great quantities of oxygen that many marine creatures need to thrive, provide excellent physical habitat for young fish and shellfish, improves water quality by absorbing excess nutrients, and increases water clarity by filtering sediments.
Citizen Science, Get Involved, Monitoring, News, Science
Another happy volunteer monitoring our saltmarshes. It’s a monumental task collecting extensive plant and groundwater data at over 100 plots across 3 marshes, but we seem to pull it off almost every year … thanks to our committed volunteers. Together, they...
