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The National Estuarine Research Reserve System protects more than 1.3 million acres in 28 reserves in 22 states and Puerto Rico.

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Research at Waquoit Bay, MA

Research at the Waquoit Bay Reserve focuses on a variety of issues that are important to the Cape Cod area. Particular attention is paid to nonpoint source pollution as population growth along the coast has increased the amount of nitrogen entering coastal waters.

To address this issue as well as many others, reserve scientists collaborate with many outside biologists, chemists, geologists and hydrologists from a variety of institutions, including the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Last Updated on: Friday, October 16, 2009



Reserve Research ACE Basin, SC Apalachicola, FL Chesapeake Bay, MD Chesapeake Bay, VA Delaware Elkhorn Slough, CA Grand Bay, MS Great Bay, NH Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL Hudson River, NY Jacques Cousteau, NJ Jobos Bay, PR Kachemak Bay, AK Mission-Aransas, TX Narragansett Bay, RI North Carolina North Inlet-Winyah, SC Old Woman Creek, OH Rookery Bay, FL San Francisco, CA Sapelo Island, GA South Slough, OR Tijuana River, CA Waquoit Bay, MA Weeks Bay, AL Wells, ME Overview System-wide Monitoring Water Quality and Weather Biological Monitoring Habitat Mapping History of SWMP NERRS Science Collaborative Graduate Research Fellows Research and Monitoring Data Research Monitoring Products NERRS Publications Planning Documents Data Syntheses Research Partners CDMO IOOS NCCOS NGS CO-OPS OAR NMFS For Coordinators & Staff Research Database Contact Research Coordinators
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