🌊 Calling marine biology educators! Scripps Oceanography at @ucsandiego.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching for its Marine Biology Program! We’re looking for expertise in marine systems, cell biology and more. 🧬🔬📊 Learn more & apply by 9/10: https://bit.ly/3TePLMX

Our new paper draws on 4 years of #seagrass monitoring in Nelson, providing the first comprehensive assessment of flowering dynamics in New Zealand 🌱🪴 So neat to be apart of this ongoing research! @dana-clark.bsky.social @dan-crossett.bsky.social @al-alder.bsky.social

Seasonal Patterns and Environmental Drivers of Seagrass (<i>Zostera muelleri</i>) Flowering in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications for Seed‐Based Restoration

Seagrass flowering underpins seed-based restoration and is governed by the interaction of multiple abiotic and biotic drivers operating across a range of temporal and spatial scales. In New Zealand/A...

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Spyridia filamentosa, or “hairy basket weed,” is our seaweed of the week #PhycologyFriday

🌊Job oppprtunity 📣 Our group is looking for a marine ecologist to join us in sunny Nelson, New Zealand. Please help spread the word! Applications close 7th of August at 5pm (NZ time) #marinescience #marineecology #marinejobs #oceanjobs

Behind the scenes of #SeagrassRestoration 🌱 We’re growing and trialling nursery-based #seagrass seedlings to see how different sediment types and light shape how seedlings establish, grow, and survive before outplanting in the field. #RestoreTheMeadows #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute

Selling off & opening up to privatisation 60% of NZ's conservation land is tragic. Tourism is one of NZ's biggest earners, and mining only gets us royalties of 2% while being on the hook for billions of clean up costs, while they suck our resources dry. Let alone our wildlife, ecosystems #nzpol

Something I’ve always liked about seagrass is where it sits right at the edge of land and sea. Also wild that it’s the only marine flowering plant — found all over the world, but just one species here in Aotearoa. It’s only one piece of the puzzle, but it’s a pretty cool one. #Restorethemeadows

Undaria pinnatifida (“wakame”) is our seaweed of the week! Non-native to California, but you might see it here growing on our docks… and in your seaweed salad or miso soup #PhycologyFriday

I’m really excited about this paper, which links #seaweed species’ nitrate uptake & photosynthesis rates w/ functional #traits, providing a predictive framework for understanding roles in nutrient cycling & productivity. 🌊🦑🧪📏🌐 @jngriffy.bsky.social @intertidaleco.bsky.social @mle425.bsky.social

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Seaweed functional traits predict species’ roles in nutrient cycling and primary productivity doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

The disappointment keeps coming.

Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

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Colors and patterns of California seaweeds #SciArt #PhycologyFriday

🇵🇬 declares 🇬🇧 size MPA in the Bismarck Sea. #30x30 #OceanOptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

Papua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history - Oceanographic

Papua New Guinea has announced the Western Manus Marine Protected Area - a no-take zone covering 200,000 km² of the Pacific Ocean.

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#RestoreTheMeadows #seagrass

Dana Clark@dana-clark.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thinking ki uta ki tai 🌱🌊 Seagrass meadows sit where freshwater meets the sea, trapping sediments and nutrients before they move offshore. These habitats connect catchments to the ocean, helping coastal ecosystems function and stay resilient. Protecting seagrass protects the whole system.

Dictyopteris undulata, or “netted wing weed,” is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday

Carbon dioxide averaged nearly 431 ppm in April 2026 (new record high) 10 years ago April averaged about 408 ppm. Preliminary data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... This is really concerning, and it isn’t going away. The longer we wait, the worse the impacts get and the harder they are to address.

Please reskeet! 🚨 Abstract deadline for the Ocean in a High CO2 World Symposium is the 1st May (latest timezone). Submit your abstract now at highco2-vi.org/call-for-abs...! While you're on the website, check out all the awesome workshops the community is offering highco2-vi.org/workshops/. 🌊🦑🦀🧪🐙🪸

Call for Abstracts – The Ocean in a High-CO2 World – 6th International Science Symposium

Call for Abstracts The call for abstracts has been extended. Please submit your abstract no later than 1 May 2026 (any time zone). Full submission

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While kelp forests vanish worldwide, South Africa’s Great African Seaforest is growing. To learn more, I snorkeled in this memorizing ecosystem last December and met with marine scientists. #scicomm🧪 #marinescience Check out my full story for @mongabay.com here: news.mongabay.com/2026/04/a-ca...

A campaign to protect one of the planet’s only expanding kelp forests takes shape

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Diving in the Great African Seaforest, with its tightly packed towering kelp stipes that can rise up to 9 meters, or 30 feet, from the seabed, is a surreal experience, even f...

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We're looking for a junior specialist to work on a fun project exploring seagrass local adaptation across the whole state of California! It should be a good mix of field and molecular work. Please share with folks you think would be interested! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605

Jr. Specialist - Stachowicz/Bay Lab

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Tres bien Marseille! Rebounding seagrass after pollution reduction is my news to me good news for April 15 #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism news.mongabay.com/2026/04/a-fr...

A French city cut its marine pollution — and its seagrass bounced back

Neptune grass is generally regarded as the most ecologically important seagrass and shallow-water habitat in the Mediterranean Sea. It suffered a severe decline during the 20th century, and there have...

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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.

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Dana Clark@dana-clark.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🌿 International Women’s Day 🌿 #RestoreTheMeadows is proudly co-led by women (Dana Clark & Anna Berthelsen) and has supported 12 students/interns. With researchers like @maureen-ho.bsky.social Ho, we’re committed to growing women in marine science and restoring our coasts. 💚 #IWD #WomenInSTEM

#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!