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 – Financing Restoration
The following Community Practitioners are working on ways of unlocking financing for restoration programmes in Europe:

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

Katherine Knight
The Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund
Project Affiliation:
Katherine is working in a number of sites around Scotland which are part of SMEEF Seagrass Meadows Scotland.
Contact: [email protected]