🌱 Vote for Seagrass! 🌱
Our friends at the Cawthron Institute are on a mission to raise awareness of seagrass by voting it in as New Zealand's favourite plant!
Lets help make seagrass New Zealand's number one plant today!
nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/…

In the THIRD paper from her PhD, Andria Ostrowski, PhD uses structural equation models to identify causal effects of dynamic #multiplestressors on #seagrass (1/2). sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Griffith Science & Environment Australian Rivers Institute w The Connolly Lab Chris Brown

We have transplanted 18.750 new eelgrass shoots covering 1 ha last week in Gamborg Fjord, Denmark.
Fingers crossed that they will thrive like we have seen in multiple other Danish fjords.

In a new study with contributions from Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway Ryan Institute @ University of Galway scientists, the impact of Mediterranean Sea acidification on the development of seagrass seedlings was examined 🌊🌱

Want to learn more? Dive into the study here 👉 bit.ly/3nn3HEu

#SDG14

🌱🌊Happy #WorldSeagrassDay from Central Queensland Australia! To celebrate the importance of seagrass meadows worldwide 🌎here are some photos of intertidal seagrass meadows from Australia (Gladstone & the Whitsundays) 🇦🇺, Virginia US 🇺🇸, and my wee home Isle of Jersey C.I. 🇯🇪

After travelling halfway around the world to finally spend Christmas on my home isle of #Jersey 🇯🇪 what do I do? Head straight out to the closest patch of exposed #seagrass of course!
#SeagrassObsession

Citizen science = one of the best things on the internet. 😍

Everyone can contribute to scientific research by becoming a citizen scientist. Yes, even children! 👪

Discover a citizen science project that interests you: csiro.au/en/education/G…

#Restoration without animals is like #gin and #tonic without the gin; there’s something important missing, it doesn’t quite work, and it’s unlikely to achieve the desired outcome… a short thread about an exciting new paper (1/5)

After a couple of months hiatus I’m finally back on the seagrass meadows where I belong...Home sweet h̵o̵m̵e̵ meadow!

The dugong is eager to be #AusMammalOfTheYear but it needs votes cosmosmagazine.com/nature/top-9-a…

It was amazing to wrap up #ISBW14 with Virginia Institute of Marine Science and The Nature Conservancy in Oyster VA snorkeling through restored eelgrass🌱 and having a nosey peek 👀at their seagrass seed nursery and labs. Even finished off the trip with a seafood dinner 🦀 & street yoga!

An amazing few days @ISBW14 with Emma Jackson, Manuja Udeshi Lekammudiyanse, CMERC - Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre, and Deakin University absorbing myself #SeagrassResearch happening around the world 🌱🌎

#SmallbutMighty #SeagrassObession #Seagrassrestoration

It’s been an amazing month meeting with 5 STEM groups of budding scientists from across QLD to talk about #seagrassrestoration 🌱 #microplasticpollution & #Marinescience CMERC - Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre. It’s great to see so many students interested in the future of our oceans 🌊🌊

Seagrasses have a role to play beyond the carbon and biodiversity crises. We need joined up thinking and the UN SDGs already provide a blueprint for this. See our new review: The planetary role of seagrass conservation science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Ascophyllum nodosum forest on the Isle of Mull, blindly (and luckily) taken from my kayak.

I wish I had a snorkel and trunks for this moment. People love seeing coral reefs in documentaries, not enough people appreciate the beauty of macroalgal paradises around the UK.

Have you seen Project Seagrass’s global tool to help locate #seagrass ?

The #SeagrassSpotter tool allows people to explore, identify & learn about seagrass around the globe. Check out all the sightings across the UK and get involved! 👉 buff.ly/3yerZlM

Looks like the Central Queensland seagrass flower collecting season is upon us🌱
#DYK Zostera muelleri in our mesocosms start flowering about a month before they do on the local meadows. Who needs Mystic Meg when you have Mystic Mesocosms🔮
#SeagrassObession #SeagrassRestoration

You can take the girl out of the seagrass meadow, but you can't take the seagrass meadow out of the girl!

#SeagrassObession #Roadtrip

Save the date! Our next WSA Seagrass Seminar will be on 27 October at 10 AM Australian Eastern Standard Time. This month's topic will be the use of social media to educate, promote, and advocate for seagrass science. More details and registration information coming soon!