Seagrass meadows around Whakatū / Nelson are quietly teeming with life 🌱🌊 Among the blades of karepō live worms, amphipods, shellfish, and crabs—powering coastal food webs from the sediment up. Layered, connected, and dynamic—seagrass is far more than a plant. #RestoreTheMeadows #CawthronInstitute

Great to host the Clare Foundation this week to share our #RestoreTheMeadows work. We visited a seagrass meadow and our nursery at the #Cawthron Aquaculture Park, showing how research translates to practical restoration while supporting Te Tau Ihu iwi, students, and community outreach.

#RestoreTheMeadow’s first iwi-led seagrass project in Te Tau Ihu, #Aotearoa is underway! Last week, I had the privilege to work in Whatamango Bay with Te Ātiawa o te Waka-a-Māui Trust to map and survey the #seagrass meadow; the first time this site has been surveyed since 2018. Cont'd below(1/5)

🌱 This #WorldSeagrassDay we'll be celebrating amazing growth from this year’s seagrass pasties 🌊✨ Planted in January → thriving today. Next stop: the Tees Estuary, where they’ll: 💧 Improve water quality 🐟 Create habitat for marine life Seagrass = ecosystem superhero. 💚 #Seagrass #Restoration

Happy #WorldSeagrassDay! 🌱 Small plants. Big impact. Today we recognise the vital role #seagrass meadows play in #Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal ecosystems. Support restoration. Reduce pollution. Spread awareness. Protect our seagrass meadows. 💙 #RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration

Our paper on using two centuries of herbarium specimens to characterize morphological variation in Egregia menziesii is now out, open-access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PhycologyFriday

Kelp has many potential uses—in food, as a bio-stimulant for crops, and even as biofuel. A nascent aquaculture industry is working to meet demand, with a little help from WHOI researchers who developed an automated seeder to cut down on farmers’ time and exposure to the elements.

Want to help protect seagrass meadows? 🌱 Here are a few friendly tips! #RestoreTheMeadows #Seagrass #MarineRestoration

Best way to end the first week back? Hands and knees in the morning light hunting for the last flowers of the season. 🌸 Big thanks to @PortNelson for the support—we're chasing those chunky stage 3 seeds to top up the tally. Over 20k flowers collected this year! 🤯

#RestoreTheMeadows spent Fri–Sat at Waimea Inlet with amazing volunteers from the Boathouse Society collecting seagrass flowers 🌿 Seeds from these will support nursery experiments. It takes many seeds, so we’re grateful for the help!

Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology

Flower collections are in full force! Thank you to every volunteer and community member supporting our #SeagrassRestoration work. From collection efforts to educational events, you're building a healthier future for our #oceans. Together you’ve contributed 525 outreach hours!🌱 #RestoreTheMeadows

Haere mai, welcome, Yuki Hughes to the #RestoretheMeadows research team! Yuki is joining us as a Cawthron Institute Summer Scholar and will be helping collect and process seagrass flowers, as well as running a district experiment to understand pollination of seagrass flowers in a lab setting.

Dr. Kirsty Smith honouring the lifetime achievements of legendary Dr Lesley Rhodes at #ASPAB 🧫🔬👩🏻‍🔬🧪 #WomenInScience #Cawthron #microalgae

Great talk by @ashtyn-isaak.bsky.social on her PhD work looking at effects of MHWs and thermal priming on coralline #algae 🪸 #ASPAB

So neat to get to present the progress and future directions of our #RestoretheMeadows program at #ASPAB in Wellington, #NewZealand! #Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience

New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.

We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎

On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726

The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/

🌿 Our latest #RestoreTheMeadows update is out! Catch up on 8 months of seagrass restoration progress, new partnerships, and seedling breakthroughs at Cawthron. 👉 mailchi.mp/79994b350043... #Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration

Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social

CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: High-resolution imaging reveals how coral fragments attach to reefs See full story here: phys.org/news/2025-10... #coralreefs #coralrestoration #research #coralfragments #marinebiology

🌱Spring is blooming in the meadows! 🌱 Our #RestoreTheMeadows team has been busy finding #seagrass flowers and gearing up for the season. With summer approaching, we’re excited to continue restoring these vital underwater meadows 🌏🌊 #SeagrassRestoration #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute

The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink We are hurtling toward climate chaos. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

#climateemergency #seagrass A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back reasonstobecheerful.world/seagrass-res...

Just in time with your summer adventures ☀️ Help us record #seagrass flower sightings in #Aotearoa 🌱 #RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #CawthronInstitute

🌍 New research shows how fossil fuel emissions translate directly into human and ecological impacts – from extreme heat exposure to coral loss. This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments. 🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Woohoo - another 3 years for #RestoreTheMeadows and getting to work in this awesome space to grow #seagrass 🌱🌀 #MarineRestoration