With funding from the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET), NERRS research teams applied SWMP data to priority coastal management issues in four regions: the Pacific Coast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast.

Each study summarized and interpreted SWMP data, relevant research, and monitoring datasets at the scale of the individual reserve and that of the region. The studies also included data collected from other regional programs, demonstrating the benefits of coordinating SWMP data with other regional research and monitoring datasets.

Results from these studies enhanced the toolkit used to manage and analyze vast quantities of environmental data at reserves, provided necessary assessments of regional water quality and habitat trends, and clarified the impacts of natural processes and human activities on coastal ecosystems. The reports for these studies are now available online at http://ciceet.unh.edu/news/releases/swmp_report/swmp_report.html.