Barnegat Bay

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Barnegat Bay

(bär`nəgăt), arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.30 mi (50 km) long, E N.J., inside Long Beach Island and Island Beach Peninsula. It is a heavily used recreational asset in an area that has boomed since the 1950s.

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The project will build on wetland monitoring work Ocean County College has performed through the Barnegat Bay Partnership and in collaboration with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary.

United States : EPA Provides $1 Million to Protect Wetlands in New Jersey

One of the most famous coastal areas is Barnegat Bay, which runs from nearly the tip of Manhattan to the Brigantine Marshes just north of AC.

Before the boardwalk

Nutrient and Ecological Histories in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey.

Tuckerton Peninsula salt marsh system: a sentinel site for assessing climate change effects

Barnegat Bay would not be pounded, nor would Lower Manhattan or Hoboken.

After Sandy, feds explore plan for artificial islands

on Barnegat Lane, just north of the Mantoloking Bridge where the ocean burst through and filled the Barnegat Bay.

A Tale of Two Towns: The Jersey Shore--Trapped in Purgatory

This study was performed from 2008-2012 at Pettit Island, a small saltmarsh island in Barnegat Bay (39[degrees] 40' N, 74[degrees] 11' W, New Jersey, USA).

Responses of Common Tern chicks to feather sample removal

Highlights include Kites and Castles, Boats and Boards at Barnegat Bay and a Tug-of-War competition celebrating National Tug of War Day.

Stronger than the Storm Geared Up and Ready for July Festivities

The prince walked down a road along the Barnegat Bay side of the town where many houses were obliterated.

Harry visits seaside towns battered by Superstorm Sandy

The two left their home in Toms River, New Jersey, the day after the storm had hit, to check on Gehweiler's father, who lived on a lagoon off Barnegat Bay.

Hurricane Sandy heroes

The Barnegat Bay story typifies a common saga: An environmental crisis unfolds, created by private enterprise.

The standard environmental narrative: the Barnegat Bay saga exemplifies the politicization of environmental science

Located in Ocean County, the shore community of Forked River is situated on the banks of the Barnegat Bay in the central part of New Jersey.

$400-a-month rentals by the Bay: Community Investment Strategies

In New Jersey's Barnegat Bay, after an almost complete loss of bay scallops, recruits in a resurgent population were shown to be genetically similar to the neighboring Long Island population.

Protracted recruitment in the bay scallop Argopecten irradians in a West Florida estuary