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common murres stand together on a cliff ledge
Monitoring Common Murres in Alaska
Experience the dramatic world of common murres through this collection of photographs from monitoring sites across Alaska's rugged coastline. These striking black and white seabirds, sometimes called "penguins of the north," can be seen nesting in dense colonies on steep cliffs and offshore islands, where dedicated researchers track their population dynamics and breeding success in some of the North Pacific's most remote locations.

This collection also contains images from the 2015-2016 catastrophic die-off of common murres across two Alaska ecosystems that resulted from a significant marine heatwave.
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Tidal marsh in Currituck Sound, North Carolina.
Coastal Program - Carbon Study
The Coastal Program evaluated the carbon co-benefits delivered by habitat conservation (i.e., improvement and protection) completed between 2010 and 2020. The purpose of the carbon study is to demonstrate the important role that habitat conservation projects have in removing atmospheric carbon dioxide and more broadly mitigating a significant cause of climate change. By evaluating and communicating carbon co-benefits, the conservation community can engage a broader audience, better advocate for conservation, and maximize conservation benefits. The Coastal Program Carbon Study – Co-Benefits Evaluation provides an abbreviated description of our methods, results of the carbon study, and suggestions for data interpretation. A more detailed description of the data, data management decisions, and carbon calculations are provided in the Coastal Program Carbon Study – Data & Methods.
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