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Written on: September 24th, 2025 in Natural Resources, Wetland Research
By Alison Rogerson, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Introducing Tidal Freshwater Most people are familiar with tidal wetlands that line the Delaware Bay coast and the Inland Bays. Likewise, most of us can recognize a freshwater wetland along a stream or in a forest. But what about tidal freshwater wetlands? That’s not a typo. […]
Written on: September 24th, 2025 in Education and Outreach, Natural Resources
By Kathryn Lienhard, Delaware Sea Grant Did you know that in 2022, more than 10% of the electricity generated in the U.S. came from wind energy? Humans have harnessed the power of the wind for thousands of years – most iconically, through traditional windmills – while modern wind turbines continue to advance in design and […]
Written on: July 22nd, 2025 in Natural Resources
By Alison Stouffer, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Congratulations folks! You have made it to the fifth, and final, installment of the cross-country wetland road trip. I would be lying if I said this wasn’t a bittersweet moment. I am excited to explore what the Northeast United States has to offer, but sad to […]
Written on: May 21st, 2025 in Natural Resources
By Alison Stouffer, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program It’s been a few months since our last cross country road trip. With winter in the rear-view mirror, I am excited to come out of hibernation and explore the wetlands of the Southeast United States! Need a refresher on where we have been thus far? Be […]
Written on: March 19th, 2025 in Wetland Research, Wetland Restoration
By Kenny Smith, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment In 2024 the Delaware Coastal Program and the Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program worked together to update the Delaware Marsh Migration Model originally created in 2017. New and updated layers were added, as well as some refinement of scoring to better understand where our tidal wetlands may […]
Written on: September 16th, 2024 in Education and Outreach, Wetland Research
By Olivia Allread, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program As our landscape continues to change due to development and urbanization, and the impacts from climate change are ever increasing, we must adapt our ways of managing natural resources. The last generation of environmentalists (we’re talking Clean Water Act days) did a great job with point […]
Written on: May 17th, 2024 in Education and Outreach, Wetland Research
By Olivia Allread, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Behind every grant package and backpack full of gear stands a key agent of the natural resource world: a woman. We have long known that women play a crucial role in the management, provision, and safeguarding of natural resources across our globe. In recent decades, even […]
Written on: May 19th, 2023 in Education and Outreach, Natural Resources, Wetland Research
By Olivia Allread, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Celebrate good times, come on! Yes, it’s the holiday we’ve all been waiting for – American Wetlands Month. This May marks the 32nd anniversary of recognizing the vital importance and need of wetland habitats across the United States. Now our program is out here everyday living […]
Written on: December 19th, 2022 in Education and Outreach
By Olivia Allread, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Ah, yes. The terrestrial ecosystem of bland, brown stuff. The innocuousness of peat may look like just any run of the mill soil, but this dirt is way beyond your average stuck under the nail type. Peat, Peatlands, and Wetlands First things first. Peat soil, or […]
Written on: September 26th, 2022 in Wetland Assessments
By Alison Rogerson, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Over the past year plus I’ve written five blogs sharing the results of our 2007-2017 Status and Trends report which reviews many angles of Delaware’s wetlands based on analysis of the 2017 Statewide Wetland Mapping Project (SWMP). In this post I am focusing on final thoughts […]