This one’s for you if you want to know the difference between seagrass and seaweed, how crayweed reproduces, what reforestation looks like, or if you’re dreaming of becoming a marine scientist and just need a good role model.
Professor Adriana Verges has researched temperate ecosystems and coral reefs around the world. She leads a research program that looks into the impacts of climate change on seaweed forests and seagrass meadows and restoration approaches for their conservation. She also leads restoration projects Operation Crayweed and Operation Posidonia.
You can find Adriana at the University of NSW and Sydney Institute of Marine Science. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people.
Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep:
Operation Crayweed @thetrueoperationcrayweed
Operation Posidonia @operationposidonia
Western Australian seagrass meadow found to be the world’s largest plant
AlgaeBase: a global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information
Melinda Coleman - kelp scientist and geneticist
Asparagopsis compounds reduce methane production in ruminants
Restoring WA seaweed after marine heatwaves
Recycled wastewater could ease pressures on Sydney’s drinking water
This episode was recorded and made on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.