Assess the student's ability to design a graduate-level, modular modeling and monitoring protocol that integrates coupled hydrodynamic–biogeochemical models, remote sensing analytics, and community-based indicators to optimize sediment management and blue carbon restoration in temperate estuaries under multiple sea-level rise and land-use change scenarios. The response should specify model coupling architecture, required data types and spatial/temporal scales, calibration/validation and uncertainty quantification methods, remote sensing products and sampling strategies, selection and integration of community indicators, scenario development, decision-support outputs for managers, and an adaptive implementation, governance, and evaluation plan including resource and ethical considerations.