Zostera noltii seagrass meadow, Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain
Credit: Richard Lilley
Please join us for the 2nd European Seagrass Restoration Workshop in Bassin d’Arcachon, after registering you will be invited to submit your details to the ESRA Practitioner database.
Community Practitioners – Zostera noltii
The following Community Practitioners are working on Zostera noltii restoration programmes in Europe:

Prof. Dr. Laura Govers
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.
Project Affiliation:
Laura is working with seed based Zostera noltii restoration methods in the Wadden Sea, and with transplant based Zostera noltii methods in the Wadden Sea, Veerse Meer, Grevelingenmeer and Oosterschelde, Netherlands. Laura is also working with Zostera noltii transplants in the Étang de Berre and in the Parc naturel marin du Bassin d’Arcachon, France.
Contact: [email protected]

Dr. Richard ‘RJ’ Lilley
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & European Seagrass Restoration Alliance.
Project Affiliation:
RJ is working with both seed based and transplant based Zostera noltii restoration methods in the Parc naturel marin du Bassin d’Arcachon, France and with Zostera noltii transplants in the Étang de Berre, France.
Contact: [email protected]

Thomas Fauvel
L’Office français de la biodiversité
Project Affiliation:
Thomas is working with both seed based and transplant based Zostera noltii restoration methods in the Parc naturel marin du Bassin d’Arcachon, France.
Contact: [email protected]

Dr. Nicolas Mayot
GIPREB
Project Affiliation:
Nicolas is working with transplant based Zostera noltii restoration methods in the Étang de Berre, France.
Contact: [email protected]

Julie Duley
GIPREB
Project Affiliation:
Julie is working with transplant based Zostera noltii restoration methods in the Étang de Berre, France.
Contact: [email protected]

Bárbara Ondiviela
IHCantabria
Project Affiliation:
Bárbara is a marine ecologist and her research focuses on the ecology of intertidal seagrasses and the use of remote sensing based techniques to improve our understanding of coastal ecosystems. Bárbara has devoted much of her research to investigating the spatial and temporal dynamics and ecological functions of the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera noltii.
Contact: [email protected]

Juan Lugilde-Yáñez
University of Galway
Project Affiliation:
Juan Lugilde-Yáñez of is working on assessing different transplantation and monitoring methods for Zostera noltii as part of CLIMAREST. His study sites are Kilkieran Bay, Killala Bay and in Tralee Bay in Ireland.
Contact: [email protected]

Hannah Green
Project Seagrass
Project Affiliation:
Hannah Green of is working on assessing different transplantation methods for Zostera marina in Wales.
Contact: [email protected]

Katherine Knight
The Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund
Project Affiliation:
Katherine is working with seed and transplant based methodologies, principally with Zostera marina and Zostera noltii. Katherine is working in an number of sites around Scotland which are part of SMEEF Seagrass Meadows Scotland.
Contact: [email protected]

João Pedro Coelho
University of Aveiro
Project Affiliation:
Pedro Coelho is working with transplant-based Zostera noltii restoration in the Ria de Aveiro (Portugal) under the scope of the RemediGrass project.
Contact: [email protected]

Vitor Hugo Oliveira
University of Aveiro
Project Affiliation:
Vitor Hugo Oliveira is working with transplant-based Zostera noltii restoration in the Ria de Aveiro (Portugal) under the scope of the RemediGrass project.
Contact: [email protected]