The best-kept secret is the amount of #carbon these plants store: even more than trees do. But #seagrasses are facing a barrage of threats. We urgently need to protect them, and enable the #rewilding of the #sea.

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-seagrass-space.html

It’s #WorldSeagrassDay so I wanted to share a bit about our newly #NSFfunded project to identify #viruses infecting #seagrasses and study their transmission mechanisms and ecological impacts. This pic is from the #StPetersburgScienceFestival where we did an #outreach event to teach the public about the importance of #seagrass ecosystems #USFCMS #ocean

#KnowledgeByte: #Seagrasses have a significant global role in supporting food security, mitigating climate change, enriching biodiversity, purifying water, protecting coastlines and controlling diseases.

#WorldSeagrassDay is an annual event held on March 1 to raise awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/63ff133b82229fc40d324628

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🌱 @I_Olive_S is in Lisbon presenting the results of @Euromarine_tw PATHGRASS workshop - Human-Nature connections in #seagrasses. Well done! A great and fruitfull workshop! @antoniojcastro @SznDohrn @ualmeria @CESAM_Univ @MBARG_CESAM @UnivAveiro https://twitter.com/I_Olive_S/status/1618220420477648897

Here we'll be! Presenting the outcome of our foresight workshop #PATHGRASS on #HumanNatureConnections in #seagrasses 🧍🏻↔️🌱 @I_Olive_S @SznDohrn @ualmeria @campusdelmar
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Join EuroMarine’s members in presenting the outcomes of their activities in our Open Science day. Registration opens until the 25th January

More info here
https://buff.ly/3GUJZ94

Registration
https://buff.ly/3wqp0pT
https://twitter.com/Euromarine_tw/status/1618171867805716480

RT @I_Olive_S
Here we'll be! Presenting the outcome of our foresight workshop #PATHGRASS on #HumanNatureConnections in #seagrasses 🧍🏻↔️🌱 @antoniojcastro @SznDohrn @ualmeria @campusdelmar https://twitter.com/Euromarine_tw/status/1618171867805716480

We have a new preprint out with @marinecologist@twitter.com @Bincoral@twitter.com @SeagrassLiz@twitter.com @GaryAKendrick@twitter.com @BatleyLab@twitter.com! Genome assemblies and a deep dive into gene loss patterns of two Australian #seagrasses, Posidonia australis and Amphibolis antarctica!
I wrote a thread here: https://genomic.social/@PhilippBayer/109401875532608358