The cover photo shows a yellow caution tape across an estuary to illustrate the feature article on how the five Gulf Coast national estuarine research reserves, or NERRs, are all following the same process to create site-specific plans and to define appropriate actions for assisting with disaster response. Many of the nation’s reserves are located in areas at risk for a variety of technological and natural hazards, such as oil and chemical spills, vessel and plane crashes, flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, landslides, and more.
