A new climate change resource online
The NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (the parent office to the Estuarine Reserves Division) has added a page addressing climate change to its web site.
The 27 reserves around the country have identified several major impacts to reserve ecosystems including change in sea-level, salt marsh extent and community structure, range extension of invasive species, storm frequency and severity, shoreline erosion and migration, hydrology, and water quantity and quality changes.
On the section describing what the OCRM is doing to respond to climate change, the NERR System is featured for its recent white paper, Climate Change: Science, Education and Research for Tomorrow's Estuaries (download PDF) and for its Coastal Training Program.
The OCRM pages have a lot to offer and point to many other useful resources.
