Rangitahi from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tuia Te Matangi joined #RestoreTheMeadows researchers @al-alder.bsky.social, Halle and Ellie in the seagrass meadow 🌱

Thanks to Ngāti Tama for helping bring mātauranga Māori into science!
🎥 Treena Shee

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Great to host the Clare Foundation this week to share our #RestoreTheMeadows work. We visited a seagrass meadow and our nursery at the #Cawthron Aquaculture Park, showing how research translates to practical restoration while supporting Te Tau Ihu iwi, students, and community outreach.

🌿 International Women’s Day 🌿

#RestoreTheMeadows is proudly co-led by women (Dana Clark & Anna Berthelsen) and has supported 12 students/interns. With researchers like @maureen-ho.bsky.social Ho, we’re committed to growing women in marine science and restoring our coasts. 💚

#IWD #WomenInSTEM

Happy #WorldSeagrassDay! 🌱

Small plants. Big impact.

Today we recognise the vital role #seagrass meadows play in #Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal ecosystems.

Support restoration. Reduce pollution. Spread awareness.

Protect our seagrass meadows. 💙

#RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration

Awesome day at a Climate Change Solutions workshop with summer scholar Halle Unsworth — digging in the sand, talking seagrass, and plotting data with the kiddos.

Recovery takes time. That’s why teaching the next group of coastal guardians matters.

#CawthronInstitute #RestoreTheMeadows

Want to help protect seagrass meadows? 🌱 Here are a few friendly tips!
#RestoreTheMeadows #Seagrass
#MarineRestoration

New year, new growth 🌱
The #RestoreTheMeadows team is kicking off new nursery experiments to optimise light conditions and sediment types for growing seagrass. Building on @Ellie Brettle’s PhD research, this is a key step toward scaling up seed-based restoration.

Season’s greetings from the #RestoreTheMeadows team 🌿

We’ve wrapped up seagrass flowering collection for the season, harvesting ~20,000 flowers. These will support experiments next year to optimise light & sediment conditions for growing seagrass.

Thanks to everyone who supported us this year 🌊

#RestoreTheMeadows spent Fri–Sat at Waimea Inlet with amazing volunteers from the Boathouse Society collecting seagrass flowers 🌿 Seeds from these will support nursery experiments. It takes many seeds, so we’re grateful for the help!

Flower collections are in full force! Thank you to every volunteer and community member supporting our #SeagrassRestoration work. From collection efforts to educational events, you're building a healthier future for our #oceans. Together you’ve contributed 525 outreach hours!🌱

#RestoreTheMeadows

So neat to get to present the progress and future directions of our #RestoretheMeadows program at #ASPAB in Wellington, #NewZealand!

#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience

Haere mai, welcome, Yuki Hughes to the #RestoretheMeadows research team! Yuki is joining us as a Cawthron Institute Summer Scholar and will be helping collect and process seagrass flowers, as well as running a district experiment to understand pollination of seagrass flowers in a lab setting.

An update from Restoring the Meadows - a Cawthron-led seagrass restoration project

🌿 Our latest #RestoreTheMeadows update is out! Catch up on 8 months of seagrass restoration progress, new partnerships, and seedling breakthroughs at Cawthron.

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#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration

🌱Spring is blooming in the meadows! 🌱

Our #RestoreTheMeadows team has been busy finding #seagrass flowers and gearing up for the season. With summer approaching, we’re excited to continue restoring these vital underwater meadows 🌏🌊

#SeagrassRestoration #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute

If you’re in NZ 🇳🇿 and want to help us learn when and where seagrass flowers, download our new app and start spotting flowers in your local meadows! 🌿💚
#RestoreTheMeadows #Seagrass #CitizenScience

Just in time with your summer adventures ☀️ Help us record #seagrass flower sightings in #Aotearoa 🌱

#RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #CawthronInstitute

#restorethemeadows #seagrassrestoration #seagrass #marinerestoration #marineconservation #Aotearoa #MarineScience #CawthronInstitute

First known green turtle feeding habitat confirmed in NZ

Our #RestoreTheMeadows team was excited to see this discovery — the first known green turtle feeding habitat in NZ, found in Rangaunu Harbour’s seagrass meadows! 🐢🌿 A great reminder why seagrass restoration matters.
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Woohoo - another 3 years for #RestoreTheMeadows and getting to work in this awesome space to grow #seagrass 🌱🌀 #MarineRestoration

Big news for #RestoreTheMeadows! 💙🌿 We’re partnering with the Clare Foundation for Phase 2, with renewed support from Port Nelson, OneFortyOne & Friends of Nelson Haven and Tasman Bay. This 3-year funding will help us refine techniques for growing & planting #seagrass. 🌱🌊 #MarineRestoration