Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds - site also contains information about Nonpoint source pollution, volunteer monitoring, and TMDLs ...

Chesapeake Bay Program - Information, data, maps, and publications about the Chesapeake Bay, the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem, and the Chesapeake Bay Program.

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The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service produces information on the characteristic, extent, and status of the National Wetlands and deepwater habitats. In addition, we provide wetland maps, status maps, interactive mapping tool, digital wetland data, digital map downloads, status & trends reports, wetland publications, plants and hydric soils lists ...

Since 1955, the Great Lakes Commission has dedicated its efforts toward securing a clean environment, strong economy, and high quality of life for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region and its citizens. An eight-state compact agency founded in state and federal law, the Commission represents the collective views of the eight Great Lakes states. A newly established Associate Membership program ...

2002 Annual Retreat, Newport, Oregon Call for 2002 Parntership Award Nominations Navigate the Coastal America Site Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) Student Ocean Conferences Scientific and Tech. Advisory Committee Publications Audio/Video Clips Partnership Awards Partnership Award 2002 Application Federal Partners Links Employment Internal Site Home A Decade ...

The North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve Reserve Information Reserve Sites Teachers and Students Current Events Research Estuary Cam Coastal Communities Services Coastal Information Clearinghouse Hourly Weather and Water Observations The North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve is a cooperative program between the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural ...

Welcome to The Terrene Institute, working to improve our nation's environment by building societal consensus for innovative and sustainable environmental solutions. The Terrene Institute promotes sustainable solutions through education and outreach programs that effect change in individual behavior, corporate stewardship and public policy. Terrene is a nonprofit, nonadvocacy organization.

Aug. 14-16, 2002: Wetland Plant Identification Course Sept. 17-20, 2002: Wetland Identification and Delineation Course, VIMS Sept. 28, 2002: National Estuaries Day Celebration - York River State Park Dec. 11-13, 2002: Winter Botany Course, VIMS Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia Virginia Institute of Marine Science / Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062 Phone: (804) ...

Visit the Morro Bay Estuary Visitor Center! Headquarters, Visitor Center & Volunteer Center 601 Embarcadero, Suite 11 Morro Bay CA 93442 Phone 805-772-3834 Fax 805-772-4162 mbnep@mbnep.org Copyright 2001 - Morro Bay National Estuary Program http://www.mbnep.org/ ...

Coastal Marsh Project Dr. Michael Kearney, Dr. William Lawrence and Dr. John Townshend, Principal Investigators Sponsored by the Mission to Planet Earth at NASA and The Department of Geography at the University of Maryland, College Park The marsh shown above is considered at risk due to the expansion of tidal creeks. Introduction Welcome to the Coastal Marsh Project. The purpose of the Project ...

Sand crabs in salt marsh, Sapelo Island, Georgia, 1989 photo S. C. Delaney/courtesy of Environmental Protection Agency Coastal wetlands stretch inland from estuaries and beaches. In temperate climates, they're salt marshes and grassy fresh marsh and tidal flats. In tropical areas, they include swampy forests of mangroves . Draining, dredging, and filling wetlands, as well as rising sea level, are ...

Coastal Eelgrass Habitats of Rhode Island ...

Tidal Wetland Ecology of Long Island Sound (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) R. Scott Warren, Professor of Botany, Paul E. Fell, Katherine Blunt Professor of Zoology, Connecticut College Wetlands are transitional zones between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface, or the land is actually covered by water either permanently or periodically. Wetlands ...

Ecology - Habitats - Salt Marsh and Estuary Return to Biomes and Habitats Main Page Buy Books about Estuaries An estuary is a partially enclosed body of water formed where freshwater from rivers and streams flows into the ocean, mixing with the salty sea water. Estuaries and the lands surrounding them are places of transition from land to sea, and from fresh to salt water. Although influenced by ...

Mumbai Home New Search Site map User guide Tourist Geography History Index One level up Contact Sewri Mangrove Park Now linked by the Western Australia Mangrove Page. The Sewri Mangrove Park was declared a protected area by the Bombay Port Trust on January 15 1996. This park consists of 15 acres of mangroves in the mudflats between Sewri and Trombay. The BPT has undertaken to protect this area ...

THE ECOLOGY OF SALT MARSH PLANT COMMUNITIES References Provided by Mark Bertness, Brown University Go Home Summary Paper in the field: Adam, P. 1990. Salt Marsh Ecology. Cambridge Press 461 pp. Nixon, S. 1980. Between coastal marshes and coastal waters - a review of twenty years of speculation and research on the role of salt marshes in estuary production. In: Estuaries and Wetland processes.

Sediment Transport of an Estuary Estuarine Ecology WFSC 611 Complied by Loretta Solliday Fall 97 Sources of Sediment within an Estuary Freshwater sources: Freshwater sources of sediment within an estuary (what is an estuary and why are they important) http://www.gem.co.za/enviro/43.htm include the rivers of the world, in fact the rivers of the world discharge 35 trillion tons of water to the ...