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Noaa: Estuary Education: Oyster Research
Learn about different research techniques used to study the oyster population in the estuary. [5:55]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Eelgrass Restoration
Take a look at the scientific efforts to reseed the valuable but shrinking eelgrass bed habitats in the estuarine ecosystem. [3:06]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Restoration
Students and citizen groups seek to restore and reclaim damaged, changed, or polluted estuaries. [6:52]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Building a Salt Marsh
Find out how a salt marsh can be built or rebuilt. This video explains how plants are chosen to restore a salt marsh near New York City. [3:52]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Hazardous Habitat
Estuaries are important habitats for salmon, but development, deforestation, and human interaction have caused damage to these ecosystems. Learn how to mitigate this damage and restore the estuary. [3:32]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Getting Involved
Learn how to get involved to protect these important but fragile resources in the estuary ecosystem. [4:59]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Score for Oysters
Score one for oysters. Meet two marine ecosystem experts and learn how oyster shells can be recycled to make a new habitat for young oysters. [8:12]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Estuary Restoration
A look at how and why the South Slough estuary has been changed by human use, and how we are now trying to rebuild or restore the estuary to original condition. Specialized techniques for restoration include use of high explosives. [7:48]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Toxic Legacy
Pollution in urban estuaries is a serious problem. Cleaning up this toxic legacy is a long-term and expensive proposition. [7:05]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Estuary Restoration and Monitoring
See how an urban estuary suffering from land loss is restored using a unique high-tech method. Then, using digital camera technology, students are able to show the results of the restoration to determine the project's success. [2:25]