Zostera marina seagrass with a Green Shore crab (Carcinus maenas), Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England.
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 – Water Quality
The following Community Practitioners are working on seagrass associated Water Quality challenges with respect to 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. 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]