Liz Andrews

🌱 Vote for Seagrass! 🌱 Our friends at the Cawthron Institute are on a mission to raise awareness of seagrass by voting it in as New Zealand's favourite plant! Lets help make seagrass New Zealand's number one plant today! nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/…

In the THIRD paper from her PhD, @A0strowski uses structural equation models to identify causal effects of dynamic #multiplestressors on #seagrass (1/2). sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @Griffith_SciEnv @GriffithARI w @ConnollyLab @bluecology

We have transplanted 18.750 new eelgrass shoots covering 1 ha last week in Gamborg Fjord, Denmark. Fingers crossed that they will thrive like we have seen in multiple other Danish fjords.

In a new study with contributions from @uniofgalway @RyanInstitute scientists, the impact of Mediterranean Sea acidification on the development of seagrass seedlings was examined 🌊🌱 Want to learn more? Dive into the study here 👉 bit.ly/3nn3HEu #SDG14

🌱🌊Happy #WorldSeagrassDay from Central Queensland Australia! To celebrate the importance of seagrass meadows worldwide 🌎here are some photos of intertidal seagrass meadows from Australia (Gladstone & the Whitsundays) 🇦🇺, Virginia US 🇺🇸, and my wee home Isle of Jersey C.I. 🇯🇪

After travelling halfway around the world to finally spend Christmas on my home isle of #Jersey 🇯🇪 what do I do? Head straight out to the closest patch of exposed #seagrass of course! #SeagrassObsession

Citizen science = one of the best things on the internet. 😍 Everyone can contribute to scientific research by becoming a citizen scientist. Yes, even children! 👪 Discover a citizen science project that interests you: csiro.au/en/education/G…

@OliverDalby1 @EcoGeneticsLab .And. Breathe. Congrats Oli!!! 🎉

It. Is. Done. I just submitted my PhD thesis🎉 4 years, ~60k words, 100s of thousands of lines of R code, and lots of pretty maps and it's done. Feeling very blessed to have been part of such a great lab group at @EcoGeneticsLab. Obligatory favourite fieldwork pics below...

#Restoration without animals is like #gin and #tonic without the gin; there’s something important missing, it doesn’t quite work, and it’s unlikely to achieve the desired outcome… a short thread about an exciting new paper (1/5)

@Andrethorpe Why do I feel like you're going to have a seagrass meadow pun field day at Christmas.

@Rambling_Bean One girl went to mow, went to mow a meadow.......! 😎

After a couple of months hiatus I’m finally back on the seagrass meadows where I belong...Home sweet h̵o̵m̵e̵ meadow!

@RVasiluth Thank you for bringing awareness of our restoration work in Central QLD by sharing our posts, as I'm sure you know is a big help! I’m interested in your work using ‘calm-power’ to increase eelgrass germination success and intrigued how your infield restoration efforts are going.

@Rambling_Bean How can I help your restoration efforts?

@RVasiluth @RVasiluth If you were in Australia I’d be signing you up to help with flower harvesting first up, as our Zostera muelleri flower season is now in full swing!

The dugong is eager to be #AusMammalOfTheYear but it needs votes cosmosmagazine.com/nature/top-9-a…

It was amazing to wrap up #ISBW14 with @VIMS_News and @nature_org in Oyster VA snorkeling through restored eelgrass🌱 and having a nosey peek 👀at their seagrass seed nursery and labs. Even finished off the trip with a seafood dinner 🦀 & street yoga!

@Andrethorpe @Andrethorpe do you know who's working on it? Btw, this bean is heading back to our wee Isle in time for mulled Christmas cider. Will you guys be around?

@Rambling_Bean @CQU @CQUniCMERC They're looking at regenerating seagrass at St Catherines.

Presenting my research on the importance of considering phenotypic plasticity vs fixed-traits for seagrass restoration and mariculture at my first (but not my last) #ISBW14, @CQU @CQUniCMERC #SeagrassRestoration #SeagrasObession

An amazing few days @ISBW14 with @Emma_seagrass, @Seagrass_flower, @CQUniCMERC, and @Deakin absorbing myself #SeagrassResearch happening around the world 🌱🌎 #SmallbutMighty #SeagrassObession #Seagrassrestoration

It’s been an amazing month meeting with 5 STEM groups of budding scientists from across QLD to talk about #seagrassrestoration🌱#microplasticpollution & #Marinescience @CQUniCMERC. It’s great to see so many students interested in the future of our oceans 🌊🌊

Seagrasses have a role to play beyond the carbon and biodiversity crises. We need joined up thinking and the UN SDGs already provide a blueprint for this. See our new review: The planetary role of seagrass conservation science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…