Watching our friend and collaborator Prof Joanne Preston - Coastal Restoration Lab giving a great talk at the Restoring Sussex Bay, Together launch today in Brighton. #sussexbay

A very special morning at Calshot! #seagrass seed coming along nicely and the meadow looking very green. We'll be collecting soon! Also some impressive areas of Lanice conchilega (sand mason) reef! Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust Marine Solent Seascape Project UoP Marine Biology

Early start! Work work work! #solentseagrassrestoration project. @hiwwtmarine UoP Marine Biology BoskalisWestminster IOWDistillery FatFace Foundation Vp plc

What with Calshot yesterday and Seaview this morning, this year's #seagrass seed collection has got off to a great start! #solentseagrassrestoration project. @hiwwtmarine UoP Marine Biology BoskalisWestminster IOWDistillery FatFace Foundation Vp plc

A little #seagrass "rescue fragment" washed up on the shore at #LeeontheSolent this morning along with some spathes with seed! And an eclectic collection of beach spoor, which hopefully doesn't indicate an angling trip gone badly wrong! Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust Marine

An #Aegean #seascape for a change, but still two #seagrass species to see close to shore, just like the #Solent . But here it's Posidonia oceania (Neptune grass) and Cymodocea nodosa (little Neptune grass). Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust Marine UoP Marine Biology Solent Seascape Project BoskalisWestminster @FFoundatio09

Up early for a seagrass recce at Calshot this morning and turned up a nice moulted shell (exuvia) of Corystes cassivelaunus (masked crab). Usually hidden, buried in the sand, using their antennae as a breathing tube, but we've seen a few this year! Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust Marine Solent Seascape Project

SI units struggle to convey the real impact of marine micro-plastics - we need new ones. This can be one gannetful (gntfl) = 0.25 albatrossfuls (abtsfl). 5 minute litter pick. #leeonthesolent

Impressive, but sadly, a hop too far for this unfortunate sand hopper, found drowned at the bottom of my darjeeling!

If you happen to be at the Southampton International Boat Show today, I'll be on the Foredeck stage in half an hour (14:00)!

Are we at The Wildlife Trusts just a bit too circumspect when we talk about ways to help protect our #seagrass meadows? Picked up a badge at Southampton International Boat Show yesterday and loving this "easy-to-understand" messaging from Ocean Conservation Trust

Quite a moment! At the National Marine Aquarium today for the LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES End of Project Conference! Four years of effort to protect and restore #seagrass meadows distilled into some great presentations, all kicked off by Tony Juniper #SaveOurSeabed Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust Marine The Wildlife Trusts

My favourite scrap of #Gosport saltmarsh taking a pounding this morning from rafted algal overgrowth and marine mega-litter: a sofa "corpse", old mooring buoy and a pontoon, stuffed with an eye watering load of future #marinemicroplastics ! Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust Marine Solent Seascape Project

PFAS🧵One of things I tried to portray when this drone footage by @cpphotovideo was aired in 2021 was we should be concerned about the pollution we can’t see.

ReMEDIES #saveourseabed closes today after 5 years developing strategies to protect & restore seabed habitats in England. Film maker Lewis Michael Jefferies captures the beauty of seagrass beds & celebrates the project in this video youtu.be/GGOUB8xehrI narrated by Gillian Burke

Anyone remember, "This Leaden Pall"? Awesome #HMHB album, and what we seem to have been living under for the last fortnight! Finally, today, the sun came out and I took the long way to work to say hello to the #Solent!