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  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast. <br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    Seagrass Restoration
  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast. <br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    Seagrass Restoration
  • Volunteers with The Nature Conservancy collect eelgrass (Zostera marina) for the seeds once a year as part of a major seagrass restoration project off Virginia, USA.
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  • Scientists with The Nature Conservancy use their bodies to stir eelgrass (Zostera marina) in large vats where seagrass seeds will seperate from the leaves for later dispersal. This seagrass restoration project in Virginia, USA is the largest and most successful in the world.
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  • A researcher with The Nature Conservancy adds eelgrass (Zostera marina) to a large vat where seagrass seeds will seperate from the leaves for later dispersal. This seagrass restoration project in Virginia, USA is the largest and most successful in the world.
    20190531-501_2091.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_9937.jpg
  • Viki Kolatkova, PhD student and commercial diver with the SeaChange Society, collects bunches of eelgrass in preparation for planting.
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  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0129.jpg
  • Laundry baskets are used to transport eelgrass from healthy beds, to areas in need of restoration.
    20210928-500_9947.jpg
  • Viki Kolatkova, PhD student and commercial diver with the SeaChange Society, swims off with bunches of eelgrass in preparation for planting.
    20210928-500_0066.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland with the SeaChange Society stuffs eelgrass (Zostera marina) into a mesh bag. The seagrass is being taken from a robust eelgrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass in an area in need of restoration in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-500_9702.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_9969.jpg
  • Laundry baskets are used to transport eelgrass from healthy beds, to areas in need of restoration.
    20210928-500_0047.jpg
  • Heriberto Martir from the University of Puerto Rico's "Vida Marina" inspects his work. Wooden steaks from discarded pallets placed in a matrix change wind patterns to build up sand dunes along the north coast of Puerto Rico. "Vida Marina"  focuses on the management and ecological restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems, endemic plants and marine turtle species. This project aims to restore sand dunes for coastal protection during storms, nesting sea turtles and other benefits. Image release available.
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  • Scientist Bo Lusk teaches volunteers with The Nature Conservancy about bay scallops and seagrass in Virginia, USA during the annual seagrass seed collection for the world's largest seagrass restoration project.
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  • Heriberto Martir from the University of Puerto Rico's "Vida Marina" inspects his work. Wooden steaks from discarded pallets placed in a matrix change wind patterns to build up sand dunes along the north coast of Puerto Rico. "Vida Marina"  focuses on the management and ecological restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems, endemic plants and marine turtle species. This project aims to restore sand dunes for coastal protection during storms, nesting sea turtles and other benefits. Image release available.
    Gross_PuertoRico045.jpg
  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
    20190528-500_6631.jpg
  • Heriberto Martir from the University of Puerto Rico's "Vida Marina" inspects his work. Wooden steaks from discarded pallets placed in a matrix change wind patterns to build up sand dunes along the north coast of Puerto Rico. "Vida Marina"  focuses on the management and ecological restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems, endemic plants and marine turtle species. This project aims to restore sand dunes for coastal protection during storms, nesting sea turtles and other benefits. Image release available.
    Gross_PuertoRico044.jpg
  • A slender cancer crab (Cancer gracilis) hides near ready-to-plant eelgrass (Zostera marina) during a seagrass restoration project in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
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  • Marine biologist Tanya Kamerman monitors her ongoing project of growing corals (Acropora cervicornis) in an open-ocean coral nursery for future reef transplanting. As coral reefs decline worldwide scientists are looking for the best ways to help save our reefs.
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  • A slender cancer crab (Cancer gracilis) hides near ready-to-plant eelgrass (Zostera marina) during a seagrass restoration project in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
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  • A slender cancer crab (Cancer gracilis) hides near ready-to-plant eelgrass (Zostera marina) during a seagrass restoration project in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210928-500_0359.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0566.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0255.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0218.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0554.jpg
  • Volunteers with the SeaChange society prepare eelgrass (Zostera marina) for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-DSC_9047.jpg
  • Volunteers with the SeaChange society prepare eelgrass (Zostera marina) for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-DSC_8807.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0571.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0470.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0164.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland from the SeaChange Society sources eelgrass (Zostera marina) from a robust seagrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass in an area in need of restoration in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-500_9807.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland from the SeaChange Society sources eelgrass (Zostera marina) from a robust seagrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass to an area in need of restoration.
    20210927-500_9807.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0174.jpg
  • Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in a tub getting ready for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-DSC_8920.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0440.jpg
  • Viki Kolatkova, PhD student and commercial diver with the SeaChange Society, plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) in an area that once had lush seagrass meadows that were destroyed due to human activities.
    20210928-500_0323.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0243.jpg
  • A school of shiner perch (Cymatogaster aggregata) swim through newly-planted eelgrass beds in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210928-500_0155.jpg
  • Laundry baskets are used to transport eelgrass from healthy beds, to areas in need of restoration.
    20210927-DSC_9199.jpg
  • Volunteers with the SeaChange society prepare eelgrass (Zostera marina) for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-DSC_9092.jpg
  • Volunteers with the SeaChange society prepare eelgrass (Zostera marina) for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-DSC_8927.jpg
  • Heriberto Martir (right) and Luis D. Amayo from the University of Puerto Rico's Vida Marina program construct a walkway to help built up the sand dunes for coastal protection and nesting sea turtles. As people walk over the same part of a sand dune it wears away the dune creating weaknesses for large waves to break through. "Vida Marina"  focuses on the management, ecological restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems, endemic plants and marine turtle species. Image release available.
    Gross_PuertoRico046.jpg
  • Luis D. Amayo from the University of Puerto Rico's Vida Marina program constructs an elevated walkway to help built up the sand dunes for coastal protection and nesting sea turtles along the north coast of Puerto Rico. As people walk over the same part of a sand dune it wears away the dune creating weaknesses for large waves to break through. "Vida Marina"  focuses on the management, ecological restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems, endemic plants and marine turtle species. Image release available.
    Gross_PuertoRico047.jpg
  • Heriberto Martir (right) and Luis D. Amayo from the University of Puerto Rico's Vida Marina program construct a walkway to help built up the sand dunes for coastal protection and nesting sea turtles. As people walk over the same part of a sand dune it wears away the dune creating weaknesses for large waves to break through. "Vida Marina"  focuses on the management, ecological restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems, endemic plants and marine turtle species. Image release available.
    Gross_PuertoRico046.jpg
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  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
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  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
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  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast.<br />
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Seagrass sequesters carbon more efficiently than rainforests and this technique is being repeated now off the coast of the United Kingdom. These restorations could really help in our fight against climate change.<br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
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  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast. <br />
<br />
Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    20190528-500_6631sm.jpg
  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
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  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
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  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
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  • Scientist Bo Lusk with The Nature Conservancy teaches a volunteer what to look for while collecting eelgrass (Zostera marina) seeds for a seagrass restoration project off Virginia, USA.
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  • Scientist Bo Lusk collects eelgrass (Zostera marina) shoots with seeds as part of a seagrass restoration project off the Virginia, USA coast.
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  • A bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) found while collecting eelgrass (Zostera marina), a type of seagrass, seeds for the world's largest seagrass restoration project. Seagrass disappeared from the area in the 1930's and with the seagrass went the scallop fishery, the largest in the USA at the time. Their re-imergence is considered a major conservation victory. Image made off Virginia, USA.
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  • Professor Robert "JJ" Orth shows off a bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) he found while collecting eelgrass (Zostera marina), a type of seagrass, seeds for the world's largest seagrass restoration project. Seagrass disappeared from the area in the 1930's and with the seagrass went the scallop fishery, the largest in the USA at the time. Their re-emergence is considered a major conservation victory. Image made off Virginia, USA.
    20190528-500_6681.jpg
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