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Divers in the mist… but luckily we collect our #eDNA underwater!

Getting ready to sample #eDNA at night, the first of three night dives. Götz Neef and Jannes Landschoff doing the honours. Thanks guys!!!

And they are off! #scienceatmidnight sampling #eDNA is a South African #kelpforest. Featuring Götz Neef Jannes Landschoff and yes, it truly was midnight!

What do scientists do when there is #loadshedding in #SouthAfrica? They continue with their work of course!Honours student Emma Rossouw processing the last of the #eDNA samples collected at midnight. #scienceatmidnight

Honours student, Aidan Bossert sharing some of his fieldwork on the Berg River in #SouthAfrica collecting samples to quantify #blue #carbon in #seagrass meadows. Funded through Sasol National Research Foundation of South Africa and hoping to obtain better estimates and sources of blue carbon in South Africa.

Fabulous initiative! I hope you get lots of tweets - will definitely encourage my students and collaborators to take part....

Every year during #YouthMonth, we feature profiles of young researchers who have an affiliation with the NRF. If you are interested in participating, please follow this link to our website to download our questionnaire for a possible feature: bit.ly/3wosOsq

Katie - those transplants are looking GREAT! ProjectSeastore

In time for #WorldOceansDay tomorrow, here a short perspective on seagrass with a focus on #SouthAfrica research: theconversation.com/seagrass-meado… The Conversation Africa Stellenbosch University @sciencelibSUN National Research Foundation of South Africa DSI/NRF SWE Research Chair

#SAMSS2022 WORKSHOP: Next-generation sequencing applications in marine biology 24 June 2022 | Durban | 08h30 -12h30 sancor.nrf.ac.za/Documents/SAMS… NextGenSequencing.pdf

Session: 2022 vision, strategies for adaptive management. Katie Watson shares her research on 1st #seagrass #restoration in South Africa at Langebaan Lagoon. Transplant success after 4 months, shoots are the most promising option, but with challenges for larger scale #SAMSS2022

And lots of representation for ProjectSeastore!

Our NEW PAPER, led by Andrew Ndhlovu is out in Marine Genomics - #transcriptome of the #seagrass #Zostera capensis under thermal stress. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… National Research Foundation of South Africa thank you for funding this research!

In preparation to have the genome of #Zostera #capensis sequenced Katie Watson has been doing sterling work extracting DNA. Easier said than done, so well done Katie for your perseverance with this!

Super excited about our new paper on #herbicide impact on #seagrass in #SouthAfrica. Even low doses of #glyphosate affect seagrass fitness. With DSI/NRF SWE Research Chair & funded by National Research Foundation of South Africa PeerJ Publishing thank you waiving OA fees peerj.com/articles/14295/

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.

SeaMap is offering support to students to attend the 🪱14th International #Polychaete #Conference & 🔬Pre-Conference Identification #Workshop 🗓️28 Jun-7 Jul 2023 | Stellenbosch Apply by 31 Mar 2023. Funding by SAEON National Research Foundation of South Africa FBIP SA Biodiversity sancor.nrf.ac.za/Documents/31Ma…

ProjectSeastore works on basic ecology, physiology, genomics of #seagrass inc #eDNA, #bluecarbon, #microbiomes. Here a video of #fieldwork fun in #SouthAfrica mangroves and seagrass meadows. Thank you Aidan Bossert! Full version: bitly.ws/BPNB

Frederick (and all of us) is super excited to publish his first research paper on restoration trials of #Zostera #capensis in South Africa. An important contribution to help us in our efforts to better understand #seagrass #restoration in #SouthAfrica. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…