Griend Island, Wadden Sea, The Netherlands
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 – Monitoring
The following Community Practitioners are working on seagrass monitoring 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]
Nicolas Mayot
GIPREB
Project Affiliation:
Nicolas is working with both seed based and transplant based Nanozostera 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 Nanozostera noltii.
Contact: [email protected]
Juan Lugilde-Yáñez
University of Galway
Project Affiliation:
Juan Lugilde-Yáñez is working on assessing different transplantation and monitoring methods for Z. marina, N. noltei, and Z. marina var. angustifolia (including both shoot and seed transplants). He is also conducting a study on the ecophysiological status of seagrass meadows in Ireland.
Contact: [email protected]
África Núñez G De la Morena
Universidad de Málaga and Institute of Biotechnology and Blue Development (IBYDA)
Project Affiliation:
África is working with both transplant and seed based Zostera marina restoration methods and with transplant-based Cymodocea nodosa in the Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea), she is developing the most effective and affordable methods to restore deep open coast areas (6-14m depth)”.
Contact: [email protected]
Eric Holden
Marine Conservation Society
Project Affiliation:
Eric Holden is the marine recovery manager at the Marine Conservation Society where he works on restoration site selection, and seagrass meadow monitoring work in the UK.
Contact: [email protected]
Hannah Green
Project Seagrass
Project Affiliation:
Hannah Green of is working on facilitating long term, standardised monitoring methods for Zostera marina in Wales.
Contact: [email protected]