Episode 8: Seeds, sods, and shoots: Restoring tropical seagrass meadows
Tue, 23 June
|https://jcu.zoom.us/j/83439013530
Join us to hear about the challenges and successes of approaches to restoring damaged and lost tropical seagrass meadows, from northern Queensland to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Time and location
23 June 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
https://jcu.zoom.us/j/83439013530
About the event
Restoration offers a chance to boost natural recovery when seagrass meadows are damaged or lost – but effectively replanting seagrass is difficult to achieve.
From propagating seeds to burying sods to dropping anchored shoots, each approach has benefits and limits that can only be identified through field trials.
Join us to hear from Prof Michael Rasheed, PhD student Evie Furness, Dr Tim Smith, and Dr Paul York from TropWATER’s Tropical Seagrass Restoration lab about the many ways they are working to restore seagrass, challenges for restoration in tropical waters, and lessons learned from Australia’s first meadow-scale tropical seagrass restoration project.
