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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 Region  12 Aquatic Preserves, Directly Managing Florida Coastal Office Over 200,000Acres Managing over Four Million Acres  Spanning Approximately 300 Miles of Coastline  Terrestrial, Freshwater and Ocean Habitats 2

Programs: Research (Assessment and Monitoring) Resource Management (Restoration and Conservation) Education (Training, Interpretation and Community Outreach) 3

GTM Research Reserve

Two Components Approximately 74,000 acres

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

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 www.gtmnerr.org www.floridacoasts.org