Reforesting seagrass & seaweed with Professor Adriana Verges

This one’s for you if you want to know the difference between seagrass and seaweed, how crayweed reproduces, what reforestation looks like, or if you’re dreaming of becoming a marine scientist and just need a good role model. 

Professor Adriana Verges has researched temperate ecosystems and coral reefs around the world. She leads a research program that looks into the impacts of climate change on seaweed forests and seagrass meadows and restoration approaches for their conservation. She also leads restoration projects Operation Crayweed and Operation Posidonia. 

You can find Adriana at the University of NSW and Sydney Institute of Marine Science. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Operation Crayweed @thetrueoperationcrayweed

Operation Posidonia @operationposidonia

Western Australian seagrass meadow found to be the world’s largest plant 

AlgaeBase: a global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information

Michael Guiry (phycologist)

Melinda Coleman - kelp scientist and geneticist 

Asparagopsis compounds reduce methane production in ruminants 

Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions (Adriana’s research)

Restoring WA seaweed after marine heatwaves

Sydney sewage stories 

Recycled wastewater could ease pressures on Sydney’s drinking water 

Project Restore (SIMS)

This episode was recorded and made on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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