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Talk NERRdy to Me: Rebecca Roth
NERRA’s raving and roving reporter Nik Charov spoke with Rebecca Roth, NERRA’s executive director. They talked about her life in coasts, the best Dr. Seuss story of all time, and …

DC Download: April 2023
April showers brought another NERRd call to action: The FY 2024 President’s Budget did not increase the NERRS operations budget from FY 2023, and it cut the NERRS PAC budget …

BIL & IRA Funds to Transform Coastal Resilience
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it will invest $77 million this year in National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRS) and Coastal Zone Management (CZM) programs to advance high impact …
Reserves in the Media
- Family-Friendly Hikes Along the Oregon Coast: (South Slough) May 30, 2023 – Katu
- St. Louis River water quality project launched by NRRI, others: (Lake Superior) May 26, 2023 – Hometown Focus
- Four Corners spices up Science Night with rockets, egg drop: (Lake Superior) May 25, 2023 – Superior Telegram
- Who Wants to Buy the Creepy Dolls and Bowling Balls That Wash Up on Texas Beaches?: (Mission-Aransas) May 25, 2023 – Smithsonian Magazine
- Dolphin Tales: Entanglement: (Rookery Bay) May 24, 2023 – Pine Island Eagle
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Communities are for critters (& science)
Reserves around the country transform this passion for wildlife into community science to support an ever-growing body of knowledge about these special estuary residents and how we can make …
Community-Informed Science in Florida
In summer 2021, a group of land managers and scientists at Florida’s Guana Tolomato Matanzas (GTM) Reserve spotted some wetland ponding behind huge piles of oyster shells. Known as rakes, …
Community Science Fills in the Gaps
It’s spring, and Becky Swerida has organized a local treasure hunt. Not for gold or jewels, but for bubbles. Specifically, the bubbles that pop up on the seagrasses that grow …