Science You Can Use: Sustaining New Jersey Marshes for Coastal Resilience 

Join us for a FREE hands-on workshop that will give you the opportunity to apply new research on nature-based solutions to managing for coastal resilience.  Facilitated by research scientists, multi-disciplinary teams of workshop participants will use recently collected data and a suite of on-line tools to produce management plans for a local saltmarsh site.  

Workshop Purpose:

To convey how ongoing research informs the understanding of:

• How do saltmarshes aid coastal resilience?
• How can salt marshes be sustained into the future?
• What management tools and best practices are available for aiding decision-making on nature-based and other management strategies?
• How might we apply them locally? 

This workshop will help you design shovel-ready projects to be competitive for funding and to demonstrate the priorities for undertaking specified management interventions at particular locations.

Coastal decision-makers will gain a better understanding of the benefits, costs and trade-offs to restoring and sustaining tidal salt marshes for our back-bay coastal communities.

Who should participate

Municipal, county, state and federal coastal decision-makers, including: municipal and county planners and officials, park and floodplain managers, state permitting officers, consultants, NGO staff, contractors.

Work across professional silos to gain different perspectives – a great networking opportunity!

Space is limited, so register now!