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Full Title: Creating Secure Warm-Water Habitat Networks for Manatees along Florida’s Gulf Coast: Developing a Vision, Identifying Gaps, and Prioritizing Restoration Sites This project prioritized efforts to restore, enhance, and create warm-water habitats in order to provide a network of thermal shelters for manatees along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Lead Investigator: Charles Deutsch, Florida Fish & … Continue reading
Full Title: Incorporating co-benefits and costs to coastal hazard mitigation decision making This project developed a cost-benefit framework for watershed management that informed and reduced uncertainties during project selection of the Louisiana Watershed Initiative. Photo by Rachelle Sanderson Photo by Rachelle Sanderson Lead Investigator: Rachelle Sanderson, Capital Region Planning Commission, rsanderson@crpcla.org Natural Resource Managers: Louisiana … Continue reading
Full Title: Restoration of Gulf of Mexico Islands and Beaches for Wildlife: Reducing the Uncertainty Stakeholder engagement informed the development of a conceptual model to help environmental managers forecast how Gulf habitats and wildlife may respond to various island and beach restoration management actions. Lead Investigator: James Nelson, University of Louisiana Lafayette, nelson@louisiana.edu Natural Resource … Continue reading
Full Title: Restoring coastal wetlands for shorebirds: Leveraging lessons learned to identify research priorities and strategies to maximize future success This project developed a research and application plan to incorporate elevation profiles into restoration projects to enhance shorebird habitat in the Salt Bayou ecosystem on the upper Texas coast. Lead Investigator: Anna R. Armitage, Texas … Continue reading
Full Title: Co-production of a water flow decision tool to support resource management This project explored the feasibility of a freshwater inflow decision tool to provide managers with a better understanding of the impact of allowing water to flow to the coast, and how to maximize environmental, social, and economic benefits while adapting to changing … Continue reading
Full Title: Is the widening of secondary channels in Bahia Grande needed to improve habitat quality and productivity for its linked basins? Managers needed to know if the Bahia Grande ecosystem was functioning as a nursery and/or foraging grounds for fish to make informed decisions regarding whether to open Bahia Grande to public use. Lead … Continue reading
Full Title: Decision support for multi-species coastal habitat management on properties with multi-use objectives The objective of the proposed project was to provide a transparent decision support framework to make optimal recommendations for listed species with conflicting habitat needs while also considering landowner objectives using a case study at the Gulf Islands National Seashore complex. … Continue reading
Full Title: Developing a research framework to support assessments of cumulative effects from multiple stressors on dolphins in the Houston area under CERCLA and OPA This project established a collaborative working group to scope and design an evaluation framework for the assessment and restoration of Gulf marine mammals in the face of multiple stressors. Lead … Continue reading
Full Title: Designing effective stewardship and post-restoration management plans through co-production to protect vulnerable Gulf of Mexico coastal birds This project identified uncertainties around the effects of coastal bird stewardship and habitat management actions. Lead Investigator: Nicole L. Michel, National Audubon Society, Nicole.Michel@audubon.org Natural Resource Managers: Abby Darrah (Audubon Delta), Jeff Gleason (U.S. Fish and … Continue reading
Full Title: From planning to adaptive management: Natural resources decision making in response to the allocation of riverine inflows in the northern Gulf of Mexico This project resulted in a management and forecast system that allows resource managers to explore tradeoffs from restoration strategies as well as examine and optimize various riverine inflows. Lead Investigator: … Continue reading