Development of an estuarine climate change monitoring program

Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

“…Characteristics of successful adaptation frameworks include: a robust but flexible approach, accounting for deep uncertainty through well-coordinated participatory processes (Dutra et al 2015;Jiao et al 2015;Buurman and Babovic, 2016;Dittrich et al 2016); well-developed monitoring systems (Barrett et al 2015;Bell et al 2018b); and taking a whole systems approach (Sheaves et al 2016), with the identification of co-benefits for human development and the environment (Wise et al 2016)…”

Monitoring Indicators of Climate Change along Long Island Sound: A Simple Protocol for Collecting Baseline Data on Marsh Migration

“…In an ideal world, monitoring would build off existing data sets, using historical information to provide a baseline for tracking change, and this approach is a core principle of efforts to develop climate change monitoring for coastal Long Island Sound (Barrett et al 2011). We recently compiled ecological data sets for the region's coastal wetlands to assess what information is available for key climate change "sentinels" that have been identified by the Long Island Sound Study (Barrett et al 2011). Most existing data sets are far from ideal.…”