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Thank you to the LBRCT for a great day out investigating the seagrass! We’re hoping to use our samples to sequence the #genome of Zostera capensis! 🌱 ProjectSeastore

Seagrass and tiger sharks 🌱🦈 New study extends the global seagrass coverage by >40%! theguardian.com/environment/20…

And another season of #SeedsforSnapper comes to an epic close - we reached our goal of 1 million #Posidonia australis seeds dispersed! Thanks to all the volunteers at School of Biological Sciences, UWA & OzFish that made this happen, can't wait for the monitoring! 🌱 #seagrass #restoration

This grey wolf was patrolling her eel-grass-covered mudflat territory at low tide on Vanvouver Island, and walked right past the camera, allowing Bertie Gregory to take this shot with the remote trigger. Vote in the #WPYPeoplesChoice Award bit.ly/WPY58-PeoplesC…

Frederick, Bianca and Katie were in Knysna to collect seagrass and sediment samples for their transcriptome and microplastic studies for ProjectSeastore . Great to see some healthy looking seagrass beds and happy students!

And seahorses do occur in seagrass. Here is a Knysna seahorse from South Africa that was inadvertently sampled during some seagrass monitoring... happily went back into the water. Thank you Katie Watson for the video.

Fantastic day Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists with the Sophie von der Heyden! 🌱 great feedback on my seagrass restoration work as part of ProjectSeastore! Andrew Ndhlovu #teamseagrass #seagrassrestoration

Over the moon to have rounded up a fantastic Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists conference with best presentation! 🌱✨ Shout out to Bianca for best poster too! Sophie von der Heyden #teamseagrass #WomenInSTEM

NWU_WRG students did not only dominate in numbers but also at winning prices Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists gala dinner. Congrats to all the winners, especially to Katie Watson & Bianca Boshoff on winning the best presentation and poster. NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management Nico J Smit Victor Wepener Sophie von der Heyden

New paper out 🥁 How can we bring together AI and computer vision to advance marine research in SA? 🐋🐠🪸 Outcome from discussions at Southern African Marine Science Symposium workshop 💡 Thanks to Charlene da Silva for leading! South African Network for Coastal&Oceanic Research Research at Stellenbosch University SA Biodiversity National Research Foundation of South Africa

Where is #tropicalisation happening? What species is it affecting? Check out our new paper on the Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Tropicalisation. Out now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution ! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree…

There's lots of announcements and news coming out of #COP28. I'm here to rank them for you from a climate scientist's perspective, using 🌴 for the wins and 🤦‍♀️ for the facepalms. Did I miss something? Let me know and I'll add it to this list! #ClimateAction #COP28FromHome 🧵

Coastal wetlands provide many ecosystem services, but we lack detailed accounts on their value. Aligning enviro economic accounting with a scenario analysis found wetlands in Vic bring $120.9B of benefits per year, and restoration could have huge returns- sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

First time in Northern Ireland and excited to be sharing my PhD work on #seagrass #restoration at #BES2023. Come say hi at 12:30 Thursday (Ecosystem & Functional Eco), don’t be shy(shark) 😉🌱🦈 British Ecological Society

Dr. Katie Watson, a new member of the research team, giving a talk in the 2024 World Seagrass Conference. Want to know more about Seagrass? Go & Check it out！ 🌐hongkongseagrass.com #HKSR #Seagrass #WorldSeagrassConference2024

Life update! I’ve moved across the world to join the iBEER Lab in Hong Kong as a postdoc! Already getting stuck into some restoration with WWF Hong Kong & The Nature Conservancy! 🌱

Thank you to Gef for naming me one of the Isle of Man’s ‘30 Under 30! I love that this initiative celebrates the diversity of Manx talent. gef.im/30-under-30/su…

LIVE at #BG24 : Don’t miss the exciting news from African BioGenome Project researchers : N'Guessan Emmanuel KOUAME, PhD Katie Watson @TensenLaura nidal fetnassi A special thank you to Prof Anne Muigai and Samuel Eziuzor for chairing this exciting session. #genomics #genome #conservation #africa

LIVE at #BG24 : Katie Watson discusses transcriptomic responses to heat stress in seagrass #genomics #plants #aquaticplant #aquaticplants #genome #seagrass #heatstress