More Estuaries & Wetlands News

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  Great Lakes coastal wetlands get a checkup

  A wide-ranging Great Lakes coastal wetlands monitoring effort enters its third year.

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  Louisiana wetlands benefitted from 2011 flood

  University of Pennsylvania researchers have announced their findings from a recent study detailing sediment...

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  Wetland trees produce more methane than expected

  Researchers at The Open University and the Universities of Bristol and Oxford have discovered...

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  New York wetlands get federal boost

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced awarding a $500,000 Wetland Program Development Grant...

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  New Great Lakes-wide Phragmites map reveals hidden stands of invasive plants

  A group of scientists has mapped the U.S. coastline of the five Great Lakes...

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  Steelhead-saving lagoon breach prevents annual steelhead deaths

  And effort to prevent an annual fish kill in California’s Pescadero lagoon was a...

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  LSU storm surge monitoring accounts for wetlands, coastal geometry

  When powerful storm surge hits the Louisiana Gulf Coast, monitoring technology from a Louisiana...

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  LSU researchers simultaneously monitor, predict storm surge on wetlands

  Louisiana State University researchers forecasted Hurricane Isaac’s storm surge while their sensors collected real-time...

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  Water quality monitoring program targets bacteria in Florida’s Clam Bay

  A water quality monitoring program will test the waters of Florida’s Clam Bay estuary...

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  Virginia institutions to empower wetland conservation with new information system

  Virginia state ecologists constantly have to balance land development and wetland health in their...

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  Puget Sound acidity threatens shellfish

  Puget Sound is becoming more acidic during some seasons, according to a new report...

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  UK study to monitor effects of storms on estuary nutrient pollution

  A 12-month study of nutrient pollution in a British estuary and two of its...

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  EPA wants San Francisco Bay Delta monitoring plan by 2017

  A restoration plan for the San Francisco Bay Delta released recently by the U.S....

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  Coastal marsh modeling to help endangered species managment

  “Collecting data in marshes and mudflats is an inherently messy business,” says Kevin Buffington,...

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  Washington estuary to be restored after dike removed

  The Nature Conservancy in Washington is restoring an estuary by simply removing a farm...