What We Do

Seacoast Educator Resource Inventory and Gap Analysis

Project Purpose: To engage partners and teachers in the creation of a digital collection of currently available science education resources related to the Great Bay and its watershed, and to identify gaps within this collection.

Project Applicant: Great Bay Stewards

Seacoast Changemaker Bootcamp 

Project Purpose: To plan and pilot a program to build advocacy skills and support champions for natural resource protection in the Great Bay watershed.

Project Applicant: Forward Foundation

Updating NH Coastal Access Map  

Project Purpose: To develop an updated and comprehensive map of land and water access points to Great Bay and the NH Atlantic Coast.

Project Applicant: Great Bay Stewards

Increasing the visibility of Great Bay Through Signage 

Project Purpose: To Increase the visibility of Great Bay waterways on roadways, river trailheads, and at boat ramps around the Great Bay Estuary watershed.

Project Applicant: UNH/NH Sea Grant

Reboot of Shared Communications Platform/EveryDrop 2.0 website 

Project Purpose: To assess needs and modify existing Every Drop website, and support capacity to maintain a shared communications platform for increasing awareness and engagement in efforts to protect the Great Bay Estuary and its watershed.

Project Applicant: Great Bay Stewards

Sawyer Mill Dam Adaptive Management Project-Final Adaptive Management Phase

Project Purpose: Implement the final adaptive management phase of the Sawyer Mill Dam Removal Project to optimize river channel conditions for river herring passage.  

Project Applicant: Great Bay Stewards

Fairhill Salt Marsh – Collaborative Restoration Design Planning 

Project Purpose: Assess existing conditions, identify impairments and restoration alternatives, develop a restoration plan for a demonstration project for Fairhill Marsh based on single-channel hydrology, and engage with stakeholders throughout the process.   

Project Applicant: Rockingham County Conservation District

Clean Sweep: Innovative Regional Street Sweeping Program for Great Bay – Phase One 

Project Purpose: Establishment of a comprehensive regional street sweeping program that will operate across municipal boundaries in the Great Bay watershed to significantly reduce nonpoint source pollution and measurably improve water quality.

Project Applicant: City of Dover

Great Bay Adapts - Phase 1

Project Purpose: Great Bay Adapts is a phased project for co-designing (Year/Phase 1) and administering a Technical Assistance Program (Years 2-5) to enhance the readiness and resilience of Great Bay Watershed communities over the next five years. This Technical Assistance Program will offer planning and implementation assistance to support Great Bay Watershed communities as they plan for climate change, build resilience, and implement priority projects.

Project Applicant: University of New Hampshire (on behalf of Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership)

Land Protection Transaction Grant Program

Project purpose: To support the Land Protection Transaction Grant Program, providing matching grants to land trusts and municipalities to protect priority lands. 

Project Applicant: Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership, fiscal agent, The Nature Conservancy

Stewardship Collaboration Project 

Project Purpose: The Stewardship Collaboration Project is a collaborative planning process to identify needs and develop a grant program to provide support for critical stewardship and priority habitat management activities on conservation lands in the coastal watershed.

Project Applicants: The Nature Conservancy and UNH Cooperative Extension 

Land Capacity- Land Conservation Manager 

Project Purpose: Create a new land protection position to increase the rate of conservation and operationalize the increased public conservation funding, focusing on strategic land conservation identified in the Coastal Conservation Plan. 

Project Applicant: Southeast Land Trust of NH (SELT)

Public Policy Support to Increase Access to Federal Funding 

Project Purpose: Support Policy Work to Increase and Improve Access to Federal Public Funding for Land Protection Projects 

Project Applicant: Southeast Land Trust of NH (SELT)