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Florida Coastal Office Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve Michael Shirley PhD Director GTM NERR East Coast Regional Administrator, Florida Coastal Office Florida Coastal Office Florida Coastal Office East Coast

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Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve

Florida Coastal Office

Michael Shirley PhD Director GTM NERR East Coast Regional Administrator, Florida Coastal Office

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Florida Coastal Office Florida Coastal Office Managing over Four Million Acres

Florida Coastal Office East Coast Region

  • 12 Aquatic Preserves,

Directly Managing Over 200,000Acres

  • Spanning

Approximately 300 Miles of Coastline

  • Terrestrial, Freshwater

and Ocean Habitats

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Programs:

Research (Assessment and Monitoring) Resource Management (Restoration and Conservation) Education (Training, Interpretation and Community Outreach)

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GTM Research Reserve

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Two Components Approximately 74,000 acres

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Habitat Migration Corridors Biological and Water Quality Monitoring WRT Sea Level Rise and Climate Change (including impacts from coastal erosion, storm surge and nuisance flooding) Ecological Services of Under Valued Habitats

Priorities Looking Forward

  • Nutrient Cycling
  • Carbon

Sequestration

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www.floridacoasts.org www.gtmnerr.org

Guana Tolomato Matanzas

National Estuarine Research Reserve

Michael.Shirley@dep.state.fl.us GTM Research National Estuarine Reserve 505 Guana River Road, Ponte Vedra Beach Florida, 32082 (904)-823-4500