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- The North Inlet-Winyah Bay Reserve is one of 26 sites around the coastal US.
Each reserve receives funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) and matched resources from the host state agency. The
North Inlet-Winyah Bay Reserve is hosted by the University of South Carolina,
Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences. We are headquartered
at the internationally recognized Baruch Marine Field Laboratory in
Georgetown, South Carolina.
The Reserve encompasses 12,327 acres of tidal marshes and wetlands. North
Inlet-Winyah Bay NERR features high quality, ocean-dominated waters and salt
marshes in North Inlet, contrasting with the brackish waters and marshes of
Winyah Bay. The bay's estuary is dominated by riverine discharges from a
watershed impacted by agricultural, municipal and industrial development.
Former rice fields and canals provide another system for study within the
Reserve.
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