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Beneficial Use of Dredged Material to Enhance Salt Marsh Habitat in New Jersey Project Summary and Lessons Learned

Tidal marshes are an integral part of New Jersey’s estuaries. They form a charismatic green band that cleans water; provides critical habitat and food sources […]

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Beneficial Use of Dredged Material to Enhance Salt Marsh Habitat in New Jersey Project Summary and Lessons Learned
Tidal marshes are an integral part of New Jersey’s estuaries. They form a charismatic green band that cleans water; provides critical habitat and food sources […]
Enhancement of Ribbed Mussel Populations document image
Enhancement of Ribbed Mussel Populations in Mid-Atlantic Salt Marshes and Living Shorelines for Water Quality Ecosystem Services
Historically, eroding shorelines have been managed through the implementation of hardened infrastructure such as seawalls, bulkheads, and revetments. As these structure are spatially static, they […]
Ecoshorelines on Developed Coasts Guidance and Best Practices report
Ecoshorelines on Developed Coasts Guidance and Best Practices
Specific guidance is needed for ecoshorelines due to these and other unique requirements for working on developed coasts. The objective of this document is to, […]
Environmental Amenities as a Source of Market Power
Environmental Amenities as a Source of Market Power
Site-specific environmental amenities can provide a source of product-differentiating market power. Using estimates from hedonic-price equations and residual-demand models, our analysis recovers firm-specific estimates of […]
Enhancing Water Quality by Restoring Freshwater Mussels in an Urban River study
Enhancing Water Quality by Restoring Freshwater Mussels in an Urban River: Assessing and Testing Prospects in Relation to Salinity
Native species of freshwater mussels were found to tolerate and grow in size at all tidal study sites on the lower Christina River in New […]
Enhancing the Water Quality Benefits of Shellfish-Based Living Shorelines in Delaware report
Enhancing the Water Quality Benefits of Shellfish-Based Living Shorelines in Delaware
This is a report on the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary’s installation of Delaware’s first “hybrid” living shoreline along 300’ of eroding salt marsh adjacent […]
Juvenile Freshwater Mussel Rearing for Water Quality Improvement in Delaware study
Juvenile Freshwater Mussel Rearing for Water Quality Improvement in Delaware
More than 80,000 juvenile freshwater mussels were produced in a hatchery and reared in a variety of aquatic habitats and aquaculture gear within Kent and […]
Effects of Coastal Flooding on the Growth of Trees in Low-Lying Forests along the St. Jones River, Delaware document
Effects of Coastal Flooding on the Growth of Trees in Low-Lying Forests along the St. Jones River, Delaware
Accelerating sea level rise, and the increase of associated environmental stressors such as increasing flood intensity, is a major concern along the Mid Atlantic coast. […]
Large-scale variation in wave attenuation of oyster reef study
Large-scale variation in wave attenuation of oyster reef living shorelines and the influence of inundation duration
One of the paramount goals of oyster reef living shorelines is to achieve sustained and adaptive coastal protection, which requires meeting ecological (i.e., develop a […]
Spatial Distribution of Ribbed Mussel (Geukensia demissa) Filtration Rates Across the Salt Marsh Landscape
Ribbed mussels occupy multiple habitats across the salt marsh landscape—along primary low marsh shorelines, within tidal creeks, and across the high marsh platform. Through their […]