Inés Mazarrasa
IHCantabria
Project Affiliation:
Inés research investigates the role that coastal vegetated ecosystems, including seagrass meadows, play as carbon sinks. She is particularly interested in understanding the drivers of variability in the carbon sink capacity of these ecosystems, the impact of ecosystem loss and degradation in this ecosystem service and the potential of conservation and restoration actions for climate change mitigation.

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Riccardo Pieraccini
Universiteit Gent

Project Affiliation:
Riccardo works on Zostera marina seed priming and plant hardening techniques to enhance restoration success and improve plant propagation in nurseries. He has worked on both seed- and sod-based restoration of Z. marina in the Wadden Sea (annual ecotype) and in Ria Formosa and Arrábida, Portugal (perennial ecotype). Additionally, Riccardo has worked on water quality and blue carbon in Cymodocea nodosa (Calvi Bay, France).

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Matthias Kreuzburg
Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende, Germany

Project Affiliation:
Matthias studies greenhouse gas dynamics and carbon accumulation in restored and natural seagrass meadows in the Baltic Sea, Germany, as part of the SeaStore project. Using advanced sensor systems, he assesses the net climate impact of seagrass restoration and develops indicators for greenhouse gas fluxes, building on previous seagrass restoration projects. 

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Juan Lugilde-Yáñez
University of Galway

Project Affiliation:
Juan Lugilde-Yáñez and his colleagues are conducting a study on seagrass sediments, measuring the organic matter and carbon content in both natural and transplanted meadows.

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