Accelerate Seagrass is a collaborative program being delivered by Climate Impact Partners, Deloitte, Project Seagrass and the National Oceanography Centre which aims to support groundbreaking research into seagrass carbon sequestration and unlock long-term finance to save and reinstate vital seagrass meadows.
As part of Accelerate Seagrass, Project Seagrass is:
Working with Swansea University to host PhD candidate Teigan Morgan. Teigan is undertaking a PhD exploring the influence that water quality has on greenhouse gas emissions from seagrass.
Seagrass meadows trap carbon within the seabed and if left undisturbed can store this for millennia. However, Teigan’s PhD seeks to broaden our understanding of the overall gaseous exchanges within seagrass meadows under differing environmental conditions, with the hypothesis that degraded seagrass meadows suffering poor water quality conditions may be net emitters of greenhouse gases. Read our Q&A with Teigan here.
Aligning experimental planting trials with The Seagrass Consortium. Working with partners from across Europe we are trialing the “Seagrass Hug” method at scale. This will enable us to compare data across our trial sites in the UK and beyond, to build our collective knowledge and foster further collaboration within the international seagrass community.
Collaborating with community groups across Scotland to develop knowledge of historic and current seagrass meadows and the threats facing Scottish seagrass today.
Through knowledge sharing, co-generation, and training opportunities we will be working to support community groups in their activities to protect and conserve meadows local to them. This will be complemented by mapping work to record the presence and extent of Scotland’s seagrass meadows.
Developing and scaling operations within our Seagrass Nursery. This work includes analysis of nursery-based planting trials carried out to date alongside maintaining momentum and supporting further development of the Global Seagrass Nursery Network which we co-chair.
