We just finished planting 80 acres (!) of eelgrass via seed broadcasting in a massive restoration experiment. This is a new record for the VIMS SAV Program. Very excited to see how the plots look this spring and summer!! #seagrass #restoration #marinelife #ecology #marine #SAV

We are seeking a Marine Scientist to work on seagrass restoration, monitoring of seagrass ecosystems and associated faunal communities, and evaluation of interactions between seagrass and aquaculture activities in Virginia! jobs.wm.edu/postings/56822 #seagrass #marine #SAV #ecology

So excited to attend my first in person Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) conference and meet everyone! Come say hi and you could be the proud owner of some "Zos-star" stickers made with the beautiful IAN graphic of Zostera sp. 🌱 #CERF2023

jobs.wm.edu/postings/57103 Announcing a new fully-funded institutional #postdoc position at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science!! I'd be happy to sponsor a well-qualified candidate who is interested in doing #seagrass ecology and leveraging our long term data sets.

Dynamic Ecology is back! | Dynamic Ecology dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/dyn…

Inference versus Prediction Statisticians versus Machine Learners Great summary! bioconductor.org/help/course-ma…

This made me laugh and maybe cry a little, this is definitely the life of an academic in the USA some days! mcsweeneys.net/articles/class…

Do we need a new category (6) of tropical cyclone? pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

And @bolkerb wins April fools. github.com/bbolker/gLLMgl… #rstats

So happy to be amongst my fellow Benthic Ecologists at #BEM2024 ! VIMS CEEL (vims.edu/research/units…) is here in force this year!

Here at Benthics and want to learn about carbon sequestration differences between Ruppia and Zostera? Check out my student, Alyson Hall’s, talk at 11:30am today! Alyson Hall #BEM2024 #BlueCarbon

Air temperature is 55° and the water temperature was 57°. A cold day for scuba diving but we got the work done! 32 acres of bottom surveyed for seagrass in two days. Big thanks to #TNC for helping us out with this. #seagrass #MarineScience #restoration

Check out our newest paper about using widgeon grass to enhance seagrass restoration under climate change! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Hot off the presses! New work from our group demonstrates how long term climate regime modifies riverine responses to pulse disturbance events, in this case hurricanes! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Excited to share Naomi's new paper on eelgrass wasting disease and herbivory! "Herbivores can benefit plants and pathogens by selectively feeding on diseased tissue." UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory Read more: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

I am extremely proud to share our new paper in Science on drivers of decomposition in streams and rivers worldwide led by Krista Capps, Scott Tiegs, and Dave Costello! #river #ecology #2024sfs Dave Costello science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Super-excited to share this paper that came out yesterday in Science. Congrats to all 152 co-authors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Earlier this week 11.5% of NSF staff were fired and now NSF is being dismantled by DOGE. Rumors of a 60-100% budget cut. NSF is the only funder of basic research in the USA. Call your reps and tell them to prioritize basic research and save NSF. nsf.gov/impacts