Seagrass

Seagrass researcher, Kelsie Fractal, is guiding us to map, monitor and record change in seagrass meadows in our bays and eventually establish an active seagrass restoration project.

Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments. They form dense underwater meadows recognised as a vital blue carbon sink. They are among the world’s most productive ecosystems and play important roles in coastal environments, including improving water quality and providing essential habitat for diverse marine life such as fish, crustaceans, pipefish, and seahorses.

While seagrasses are found in oceans all over the world, we have three species in southern Tasmanian waters.
We’ve set up monitoring sites around the coast, which we can revisit each summer – and hopefully find seeds, an indication that the seagrass is reproducing.

Our photos and data are stored here [link to come].

For more information on seagrass please visit World Seagrass Day.

*This project is funded by a Community Climate Change Action Grant from the Tasmanian Government’s Department of State Growth