STEWARDSHIP

Site Profile

The goal of developing a site profile is to enhance research efforts by developing habitat inventory information and assimilating baseline data concerning the estuarine resources and habitats within a Reserve. It accomplishes this by compiling and synthesizing all the existing information (both contemporary and historical) available for the Reserve.

It captures into a single, comprehensive document all that is known and what is not known about a reserve’s natural and cultural resources at a particular point in time. The site profile will primarily require the creation and maintenance of GIS data layers of the social aspects and ecological habitats within and adjacent to the MANERR. Maps and text will need to be created for a site profile report due to the ~2011. The site profile improves the usefulness of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) as a whole from both the local and national perspectives. The site profile for the Reserve will be completed in three stages: 1) Demographic Characterization, 2) Environmental Characterization, and 3) Site Profile Development.

The site profile will provide researchers, students, coastal zone managers, teachers, resource agency representatives and the public with a detailed summary of what is known about the Reserve, along with a discussion of issues of particular concern to the Reserve. Information contained in the Mission-Aransas site profile will be particularly valuable to resource managers dealing with an issue affecting a Reserve but who may not have or need the individual research papers completed within the Reserve.

• Download GIS layers of the MANERR boundary
• Map of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve 
• Digital Orthophoto Quad (DOQ) of the MANERR

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