The Chesapeake Bay Land Margin Ecosystem Reserch (LMER) project investigates mechanisms affecting secondary production of estuarine ecosystems. The Chesapeake Bay LMER project, called Trophic Interactions in Estuarine Systems, or TIES, began in 1995 and is scheduled to run until the year 2000. The project uses Chesapeake Bay to investigate mechanisms controlling secondary product ion in estuarine ecosystems.

Coastal America is a unique partnership of federal agencies, state and local governments, and private organizations. The partners work together to protect, preserve, and restore our nation's coasts. The challenge is to meld the capabilities and expertise of all the partners to solve local coastal problems. This is accomplished by sharing information, pooling resources, and combining management skills and technical expertise. At Coastal America, it's all in the partnership.

The Gulf Estuarine Research Society is a not for profit educational organization for people interested in estuarine and coastal issues centering on the Gulf of Mexico. The fundamental goal is to promote research in the Gulf of Mexico. GERS is a very active research society with a membership of scientists, researchers, and students from universities, agencies and research labs along the Gulf coast.

EPA's National Estuary Program was established by Congress in 1987 to improve the quality of estuaries of national importance. The Clean Water Act Section 320 directs EPA to develop plans for attaining or maintaining water quality in an estuary. This includes protection of public water supplies and the protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife, and allows recreational activities, in and on water, requires that control of point and nonpoint sources of pollution to supplement existing controls of pollution. In several cases, more than one State is participating in a National Estuary Program.

The Chesapeake Bay NERR in Virginia was designated in 1991. The Reserve is managed by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). CBNERRVA strives to be a national leader in demonstrating how science, education and coastal resource stewardship can solve coastal management problems and improve the awareness and understanding of estuaries. In order to achieve our primary goals, CBNERRVA is continually developing complimentary programs of research, education, and land stewardship.

Coastal Eelgrass Habitats of Rhode Island. This collection of coastal Rhode Island eelgrass (Zostera marina) GIS datasets is a collaboration between the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and the University of Rhode Island's Environmental Data Center (EDC). Its purpose is two-fold: to provide a single, comprehensive repository for Rhode Island eelgrass geographic data, and to provide resource managers and the public with an interactive way to access the data.

This page outlines several research projects in which Peter JS Jones is involved concerning the governance of marine protected areas (MPAs).

NetCoast is made and maintained by the Dutch Coastal Zone Management Centre. NetCoast is the place on the worldwide Web where professionals in Integrated Coastal Zone Management come for the latest relevant information, knowledge, documents, publications, software systems, fresh links to other sites and for professional collaboration. NetCoast is a virtual meeting-place for everyone involved in coastal zone issues.

Chesapeake Bay Program - Information, data, maps, and publications about the Chesapeake Bay, the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem, and the Chesapeake Bay Program.

The Coastal Marsh Project operated in the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1993 to 1998. The purpose of the Project was to analyze the surface condition of coastal marshes and detect areas that were at risk for rapid loss of land area. Overall coastal marsh health and potential for deterioration were assessed for much of the east coast of the United States. The result of Project operations was the development of a Marsh Surface Condition data set and improved scientific analysis of coastal marshes.