Developing and Integrating Social Measures of Estuarine Restoration Success - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)

Description

Understanding why estuarine habitat restoration is viewed as successful or not is critical for evaluating completed projects and garnering support for future projects. Particularly important, and often overlooked, are the perceptions of partners and the surrounding community which play an integral role in shaping the future of coastal habitats. Restoration metrics rarely include human dimensions even though community support for restoration can promote or thwart potential projects and the long-term success of completed projects. Working with the South Slough NERR, this catalyst project worked to more fully account for and understand the impacts of estuarine habitat restoration by developing social metrics for restoration success and linking them to ecological monitoring metrics. Using South Slough NERR, The Wetlands Conservancy, and other restoration projects in Oregon as case studies, the project involved a two-pronged approach to data collection: 1) synthesis of existing and newly collected ecological data from nine salt marsh restoration projects to derive commonly used ecological metrics and 2) focus groups in three Oregon locations (South Slough, Alsea, and Yaquina) to understand public perceptions about marshes. The team then connected the social and ecological datasets conceptually to create a matrix linking the datasets and indicating mismatches between ecological data and social values. Based on these steps, the team was able to provide recommendations to help improve restoration design and implementation, including more inclusive and effective communications surrounding estuarine restoration.

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Name Format Description Link
0 R software files https://zenodo.org/record/7843809
0 data files https://doi.org/10.25338/B8PM0W
0 project webpage https://nerrssciencecollaborative.org/project/deRivera20
0 https://nerrssciencecollaborative.org/project/deRivera20
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/70280
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/70280.pdf
0 Website listed for Office for Coastal Management https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 https://nerrssciencecollaborative.org/project/deRivera20
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/70280
0 R software files https://zenodo.org/record/7843809
0 data files https://doi.org/10.25338/B8PM0W
0 project webpage https://nerrssciencecollaborative.org/project/deRivera20
0 Website listed for Office for Coastal Management https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/70280.pdf

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  • ecological report mining
  • yaquina bay
  • nerrs
  • restoration data
  • office of coastal management
  • national ocean service
  • south slough nerr
  • sinuosity
  • noaa
  • photopoint
  • q-methodology
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • marsh restoration values
  • manager priorities
  • alsea bay
  • vegetation
  • human values
  • restoration assessment
  • saltmarsh channel
  • or
  • q-sort
  • hydrology
  • social indicators
  • subjective measurement
  • channel complexity

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