NOAA Science Seminar Series

Date & Time: 15 October 2024, 2 - 3 pm ET

Title: Community Building through Collaborative Science: Evolution of the Mangrove Coast Collaborative

Presenter(s): 

• Danielle Ogurcak, Florida International University

• Digna Rueda-Roa, University of South Florida

• Sara Mason, Duke University

• Brita Jessen, U.S. Geological Survey

• Marissa Figueroa, Rookery Bay NERR

Sponsor(s): This webinar is co-sponsored by the NERRS Science Collaborative and NOAA RESTORE 

Seminar Contact(s): Doug George (douglas.george@noaa.gov) or Nick Soberal (nsoberal@umich.edu) 

Remote Access: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B0sQvmW2S2mNEE47ZaM5hA 

Abstract
The Mangrove Coast Collaborative (MCC) project (2020 – 2024) began in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria (September 2017). Jobos Bay and Rookery Bay NERRs jointly recognized the need to understand and enhance the resilience of their mangrove ecosystems and the surrounding communities in southeastern Puerto Ricco and southwest Florida, respectively. Through a multi-disciplinary approach spanning four research themes – time-series mapping, ecosystem assessment, ecosystem services modeling, and management options – the MCC investigated the loss and recovery of mangroves, the relationships between drivers of hurricane impact and recovery, the effects to ecosystem services, and the ways that managers have made information-based decisions. Using co-production methods, the project team developed and shared products at a recent regional Mangrove and Management Forum that brought together a newly coalescing community of mangrove scientists and managers in the southeastern US and Caribbean.

In this webinar, the project team will describe how the mangrove science-to-management community developed as an integral part of the MCC and will share an overview of how the ongoing results of the MCC have responded to the needs of this growing community.

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{Danielle Ogurcak, FIU, dogurcak@fiu.edu; Digna Rueda-Roa, University of South Florida, druedaro@usf.edu; Sara Mason, Duke University, sara.mason@duke.edu; Brita Jessen, U.S. Geological Survey, bjessen@usgs.gov; Marissa Figueroa, Rookery Bay NERR, Marissa.B.Figueroa@floridadep.gov}