📢Do you want to or need to know how much organic carbon (OC) accumulates in Great British saltmarshes.

New Natural Environment Research Council funded research has quantified that all GB saltmarshes accumulate 46563 ± 4353 tonnes of OC annually.

Check it out: tinyurl.com/nhcnxhfu

#bluecarbon

It’s that time of year again! Come join us in Scarborough this July to talk all things marine and coastal restoration. 🌊

Tickets and speaker/poster submissions now open!

Last week we finally got out in the field for our first dive of the year! We went out to Jennycliff Bay to monitor the seagrass seedlings that we deployed in 2022 & 2023!
Its great to see that they are thriving, with loads of rhizomes forming new growth!
LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES #seagrass

📰 #SaltmarshCode Phase 1 feasibility study and recommendations report – funded by NEIRF - have been published

Both were crucial in the initial development of the Code.

🔗ceh.ac.uk/our-science/pr… 🧵 1/

📢 Attention Recent Grads! Exciting news: Applications for the Environment & Science Graduate Training Scheme (ES-GTS) at Environment Agency are now live! 🌍 Take the first step towards a rewarding career in environmental science – apply today! #NowHiring
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We're harnessing the hidden powers of restored saltmarshes💧

They store carbon captured by coastal systems and play a key role in achieving our #NetZero goals.

Learn more about the findings in our new reports with Jacobs and Manchester Metropolitan Uni 👇

environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/29/har…

New Funded Masters by Research School of Life Sciences, University of Essex Coastal Connectivity and Natural Capital with Graham Underwood Environment Agency TIGHT DEADLINE - start May 2024 - APPLY NOW - Pls RT
essex.ac.uk/postgraduate/r…

If you're having a challenging day, why not take a magical plunge into our nursery ponds? We've recently counted them and found 6005 shoots (with the outside ponds yet to be counted). For more details, click on the following link - buff.ly/3tPEJBd

#ponds #relax #chill

On 22 March 2024 the use of bottom towed fishing gear will be prohibited in 13 offshore English marine protected areas around our coast (MPAs).

Find out more: gov.uk/marine-protect…
Defra UK
#marineprotectedareas

It’s great to see the #saltmarshcode progressing and to lead the Environment Agency #bluecarbon evidence projects with UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the team to support the code implementation!

📢4 Fully Funded PhD Studentships University of St Andrews

Deadlines soon ‼️‼️

2nd Feb - Calcium Carbonate in blue carbon environments

9th of Feb - Carbon-Scapes

9th of Feb - Marine mass transport processes

9th of Feb - Next gen risk assessment of the seabed

Project details ⬇️

Today Helen Wakeham, Director of Water Transformation, spoke at Ocean & Coastal Futures (OCF) #CoastalFutures24 about how we're helping improve the water quality of our estuarine, coastal, and marine environment through projects like #ReMeMaRe 🦪

Read more of Helen’s speech: environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2024/01/25/wat…

Day 2 of the #CoastalFutures24 conference starts with a keynote talk from Helen Wakeham (Director of Water Transformation, Environment Agency).
Helen is presenting to the in-person and livestream audience the talk 'Water Transformation: Source to Sea'

Looking forward to the first session at #CF24 #coastalfutures24 at its new home in the historic Royal Institution!