Welcome to the Narragansett Bay Research Reserve's Technical Report Series.

An important mission of the Narragansett Bay Research Reserve is to preserve a representative estuarine area of the Virginian-southern New England bio-geographical region that provides opportunities for long-term estuarine research, education, and stewardship. The Reserve’s research program helps to realize this mission by:

1) providing a platform for conducting research and monitoring projects within the Reserve and Narragansett Bay, and

2) disseminating results from these projects to diverse audiences through publications, presentations and outreach activities.

To help address these goals, the Narragansett Bay Research Reserve’s Technical Reports Series was developed to archive and make available any data and reports that have been produced in association with the Reserve, yet are not appropriate for publication in the primary scientific literature.

Technical Reports are listed below in chronological order based on publication year; each report is available as a .pdf file.

2011 Reports

Report 2011:1 - Water Quality, Nutrients, and Meteorological Trends at the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in 2009

Report 2011:2 - A Report of the Prudence Island Groundwater Task Force

Report 2011:3 - NERRS Reference Sites Project: Final Report from the Narragansett Bay Research Reserve

Report 2011:4 - A Protocol for Rapidly Monitoring Macroalgae in the Narragansett Bay Research Reserve

2010 Reports

Report 2010:1 - A Method for Rapidly Assessing the Distribution and Cover of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation in Rhode Island Estuaries

Report 2010:2 - Water Quality, Nutrients, and Meteorology at the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve: 2008 Annual Report

Report 2010:3 - NBNERR Woodcutting Stewards Program Report

2009 Reports

Report 2009:1 - Nutrients in Mid-Narragansett Bay: A Spatial Comparison of Recent and Historical Data

Report 2009:2 - A Protocol for Long-term Monitoring of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina concolor) in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Report 2009:3 - Water Quality and Meteorological Station Annual Report 2007: Recent and Long-term Data

Report 2009:4 - Establishing Salt Marshes in the Narragansett Bay Research Reserve as Reference Marshes for Long-Term Ecological Monitoring

Report 2009:5 - Methods and Protocols for Eelgrass Mapping in Rhode Island: Recommendations from the Rhode Island Eelgrass Mapping Task Force

2008 Reports

Report 2008:1 - High-resolution Water Quality Mapping in Narragansett Bay, RI using DATAFLOW

Report 2008:2 - Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Water Quality Conditions in Narragansett Bay's Coves and Embayments in 2008

2007 Reports

Report 2007:1 - Home Range and Habitat Use Patterns of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene Carolina Carolina) on Prudence Island, RI

2006 Reports

Report 2006:1 - Ongoing Nekton Monitoring Within the NERRS

Report 2006:2 - Nekton Use of Transplanted Eelgrass Beds in Narragansett Bay, RI

2005 Reports

Report 2005:1 - A Recommendation for a Comprehensive Habitat and Land Ise Classification System for the NERRS (REPORT COMING SOON)

Report 2005:2 - An Analysis of the Vegetative Composition of an Atlantic Coastal Pitch Pine Barren

2004 Reports

Report 2004:1 - The Potential for Salt Marsh Pool Restoration in the NBNERR

Report 2004:2 - Habitat Classification and Iventory for the NBNERR

Report 2004:3 - Using a Survey to Gauge Public Opinion on the Status of the Prudence Island, RI Deer Herd

Report 2004:4 - Monitoring Wildlife in the NBNERR Using Weekly Driving Surveys

Report 2004:5 - Land Cover Map of Prudence Island, RI from Landsat Imagery (REPORT COMING SOON)

Report 2004:6 - The Relationship of Landscape Composition to the Distribution of Birds on Prudence Island (REPORT COMING SOON)

2003 Reports

Report 2003:1 - Herpetolgoical Monitoring in the NBNERR in 2003