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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Salt Marsh Response & Resilience to Changing Conditions: Prospects for Management<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">There is compelling evidence that New England coastal ecosystems face mounting challenges from pervasive anthropogenic stressors. Sea level rise, in particular, degrades salt marsh by altering
hydrology, salinity regime and erosive forces. Southern New England salt marshes are among the most vulnerable in the country; a review and assessment of ecological response and resilience mechanisms of these important ecosystems is timely and critical to
their future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To build capacity for improved conservation and to guide more effective management and adaptation strategies for New England salt marshes, the New England National Estuarine Research Reserves
(</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://coast.noaa.gov/nerrs/">NERRS</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) hosted a regional workshop in conjunction with the New England
Estuarine Research Society’s (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://neers.org/">NEERS</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) 2018 spring meeting. Participants discussed
the impacts of sea level rise on salt marshes and explored steps to sustain their capacity to adapt and maintain resilience in the context of inevitable change.
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<p class="Normal1"><b>Workshop objectives included:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Describe the effects of sea level rise and related stressors on New England salt marshes as documented through research and monitoring efforts<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Discuss management/adaptation/recovery/restoration practices and lessons learned from projects throughout the region
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Explore monitoring and assessment strategies of proposed and implemented actions<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Identify coordination, collaboration, and partnership opportunities<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="Normal1"><b>The workshop proceedings document and materials can be viewed via the following links</b>:
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<p class="Normal1"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://nbnerr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Workshop-Proceedings.pdf">http://nbnerr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Workshop-Proceedings.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Normal1"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://nbnerr.org/ctp/programs/salt-marsh/">http://nbnerr.org/ctp/programs/salt-marsh/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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