Curious about the potential of and challenges to coastal #bluecarbon restoration and preservation as a #climate solution? Then read our new paper led by Dr. Melissa Ward in Annual Review of Environment and Resources: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour..., release: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/blu....

Blue Carbon in an Era of Carbon Accounting

Blue carbon ecosystems—mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrass meadows, and, increasingly, seaweeds—are being rapidly integrated into climate mitigation frameworks. Yet, despite their prominence in global ...

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When exploring the #rockyintertidal with the @oceangenomelegacy.bsky.social bioblitz last week, I noticed these two lighter-colored rocks, seemingly newly turned over by storms earlier this year--just barnacles and a fresh crop of small brown macroalgae seemingly just having colonized them.

I returned to our #nitrogen #saltmarsh fertilization plots @pie-lter.bsky.social this summer, and was happy to see that the plants are thriving (July 8).

Happy #WorldOceansDay from Nahant, Massachusetts! It's a great day to study, to protect, and to celebrate a wellspring of biodiversity, the origin of our every other breath, and a never-ending source of solace and inspiration.

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One of New York City’s most common birds could disappear in 10 years

A New York City Bird Alliance study predicts that black-crowned night herons may disappear from New York City Harbor by 2037.

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Read our new publication lead by @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social on the effect of different #nitrogen inputs on the fungus community living inside #saltmarsh plants! Stay tuned for more results on the response of sediment microbial communities, plant growth and carbon uptake, and sediment geochemistry.

Kylea Garces, PhD@ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First bit of postdoc work out! Nitrogen form matters. In Spartina salt marshes, NH4+ and NO3− had distinct effects on fungal endophytes with lasting impacts on fungal growth in culture. A reminder that nutrient enrichment can create legacy effects in the mycobiome. 🍄

Happy #EarthDay! Remember that we are all sharing a home on this pale blue dot, as Sagan put it "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." Let's work together to take care of our unique and precious home. (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech.)

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City Nature Challenge 2026: Boston Area

Massachusetts has a great diversity of life, from the Berkshires to Boston, from downtown to the Cape and Bay. Join the Boston Area City Nature Challenge – a fun worldwide collaborative bioblitz with ...

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iNaturalist@inaturalist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nature is everywhere, even in the busiest cities. From April 24–27, over 100k people around the world will step outside & photograph the wild nature around them for the #CityNatureChallenge — the largest annual community science event. 🧵⤵️

Nature is everywhere, even in the busiest cities. From April 24–27, over 100k people around the world will step outside & photograph the wild nature around them for the #CityNatureChallenge — the largest annual community science event. 🧵⤵️

I'm happy to say that I will start as an assistant professor in the @sc.edu's School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment this summer! My lab at the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences will investigate coastal #wetland #ecology, #biogeochemistry, and #climate change adaptation.

I had the chance to explore my first Eastern Atlantic #saltmarsh in February, thanks to @bluecarbonalex.bsky.social and Bill Austin, who are studying, among others, this marsh on Loch Linnhe in NW Scotland. Of course, a Scottish sediment core was taken with a modified golf hole cutter--nice core!

A field course in college was how I got my own start studying #mangroves, so it was gratifying to bring @northeasternu.bsky.social Three Seas students into the mangroves in Bocas del Toro, Panama in February, introducing them to collecting data and being naturalists in these wonderful wetlands.

In the #mangroves in Bocas del Toro, Panama, in February, I was struck again by the epiphyte cover and #biodiversity in an environment with only three tree species.

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I had the chance to conduct #bluecarbon sediment coring in #Zostera pacifica seagrass beds off the Channel Islands October 2025, working with the Bay Foundation and @scrippsocean.bsky.social. Though the islands are sparse and forbidding, below the surface is a wonderland of green.

After taking our #Spartina belowground biomass cores at North Inlet-Winyah Bay, we sorted that biomass into three categories. Do different #nitrogen inputs to #saltmarshes affect allocation to long-lived rhizomes, root tissues devoted to resource acquisition, or turnover into the dead biomass pool?

In Sept. 2025 at North Inlet-Winyah Bay, we took the final samples for the #saltmarsh #nitrogen experiment that has been my focus for the past 3 years. Here I am placing the plot quadrat, pushing and hammering in the corer, and cutting the very last core sample. Now to write the papers....

Happy #WorldWetlandDay! I'm pleased to be back at North Inlet today, remembering a warmer time in Sept. 2025 when we sampled our #nitrogen #saltmarsh experimental plots (you can see the boosted plant height from the fertilizer) for the last time, including pulling these belowground biomass cores.

In August 2025 I had the chance to visit the new field station at Kendall-Frost Marsh, a UC Natural Reserve @ucsandiego.bsky.social. The new classroom and visiting scientist facilities enhanced the experience of studying this wonderful #wetland and sharing it with @scrippsocean.bsky.social students.

How do we get #saltmarsh cores? In our #nitrogen fertilization experimental plots @pie-lter.bsky.social,...

How changeable is a New England summer! Doing fieldwork @pie-lter.bsky.social in July 2025, one day it's 90° and sunny, the next the stalwart team is shivering in the rain, some opting to wear PFDs for extra insulation. Needless to say, we cut our #saltmarsh biomass measurements short that day.

In July 2025, we had a couple of former undergrad interns, already on their way to grad school, come out of retirement to help wrap up our #saltmarsh experiment @pie-lter.bsky.social. I'm glad we haven't scared them away from fieldwork! Thank you to all the students who have helped over the years.

Returning July 28, 2025 to sample our #saltmarsh fertilization experiment @pie-lter.bsky.social for the last time, it certainly seemed that the #nitrogen added over time increased the size of the plants in the plots. See also our a great team of students (shown heading back after a hard day's work).

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Observing the #saltmarsh creek bank @pie-lter.bsky.social (April 2025), you can see how the marsh platform has built up peat from the rhizomes of old Spartina alterniflora plants, atop older sediment layers, and in places crumbling away into the creek, as wind, tides, and ice erode the edges.

To study #saltmarsh response to nitrogen inputs @pie-lter.bsky.social, we've tracked marsh accretion, which may be affected by changes in root growth. Here I am placing a quadrat on a 1 m2 plot and holding this staff, which is read by a laser elevation system, on the marsh surface (April 2025).

When you visit the #saltmarsh @pie-lter.bsky.social in spring, you can see large slabs of #sediment on the marsh platform, which have been deposited there over the winter by ice rafting: ice freezing to the mudflat, and the frozen mud being carried around by winds and tides onto the marsh (April 4).

It's always interesting to see the salt marsh plants that sprout first in the spring, April 4, @pie-lter.bsky.social.

Visiting the #mangroves in Santa Catalina on the Pacific Coast of Panama in March 2025, I was struck by high levels of localized leaf #herbivory. Does anyone know what organism(s) are responsible?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Opinion | I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.

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