Dana Clark
@dana-clark.bsky.social
Restoration Ecology Team Leader | Cawthron Institute, New Zealand
Editor-in-Chief | New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
Focused on seagrass restoration, coastal ecosystem health and applied coastal management 🌿🌊
Editor-in-Chief | New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
Focused on seagrass restoration, coastal ecosystem health and applied coastal management 🌿🌊
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 🌊
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 🌊
December 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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 🌊
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!
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
#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
#RestoreTheMeadows
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So neat to get to present the progress and future directions of our #RestoretheMeadows program at #ASPAB in Wellington, #NewZealand!
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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.
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
🌿 Our latest #RestoreTheMeadows update is out! Catch up on 8 months of seagrass restoration progress, new partnerships, and seedling breakthroughs at Cawthron.
👉 mailchi.mp/79994b350043...
#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
👉 mailchi.mp/79994b350043...
#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
An update from Restoring the Meadows - a Cawthron-led seagrass restoration project
mailchi.mp
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🌿 Our latest #RestoreTheMeadows update is out! Catch up on 8 months of seagrass restoration progress, new partnerships, and seedling breakthroughs at Cawthron.
👉 mailchi.mp/79994b350043...
#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
👉 mailchi.mp/79994b350043...
#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
🌊 Call for Papers: Fish & Fisheries of the Pacific Islands 🐟
New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research invites papers on Pacific small-scale fisheries — ecology, culture, governance & more.
🗓️ Titles due 30 Jan 2026
www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjm-pa...
#PacificFisheries #CallForPapers
New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research invites papers on Pacific small-scale fisheries — ecology, culture, governance & more.
🗓️ Titles due 30 Jan 2026
www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjm-pa...
#PacificFisheries #CallForPapers
NZJMFR Call for Papers: Special Issue on Fish and Fisheries of the Pacific Islands
Small-scale fisheries across the Pacific are central to food security, livelihoods, and cultural identity. At both artisanal and subsistence levels, these fisheries underpin the wellbeing and survival...
www.royalsociety.org.nz
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
🌊 Call for Papers: Fish & Fisheries of the Pacific Islands 🐟
New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research invites papers on Pacific small-scale fisheries — ecology, culture, governance & more.
🗓️ Titles due 30 Jan 2026
www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjm-pa...
#PacificFisheries #CallForPapers
New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research invites papers on Pacific small-scale fisheries — ecology, culture, governance & more.
🗓️ Titles due 30 Jan 2026
www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjm-pa...
#PacificFisheries #CallForPapers
🌱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
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
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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
#RestoreTheMeadows #Seagrass #CitizenScience
Exciting news for seagrass lovers! As part of Cawthron's Restore the Meadows seagrass restoration programme, we’ve launched the Aotearoa Seagrass Flower Survey database – a national hub for recording seagrass flowering data.
seagrassflowerdatabase.cawthron.org.nz
www.cawthron.org.nz/research/our...
seagrassflowerdatabase.cawthron.org.nz
www.cawthron.org.nz/research/our...
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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
#RestoreTheMeadows #Seagrass #CitizenScience
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.
👉 earthsciences.nz/news/first-k...
👉 earthsciences.nz/news/first-k...
First known green turtle feeding habitat confirmed in NZ
earthsciences.nz
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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.
👉 earthsciences.nz/news/first-k...
👉 earthsciences.nz/news/first-k...
Excited to share our new paper in Ocean Sustainability! 🌊
“The right tools for the job: Considerations for implementing ecosystem-based management for marine ecosystems.”
Funded by the NZ Sustainable Seas Challenge.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
#EBM #OceanSustainability
“The right tools for the job: Considerations for implementing ecosystem-based management for marine ecosystems.”
Funded by the NZ Sustainable Seas Challenge.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
#EBM #OceanSustainability
The right tools for the job: Considerations for the implementation of an ecosystem-based management approach for marine ecosystems - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - The right tools for the job: Considerations for the implementation of an ecosystem-based management approach for marine ecosystems
doi.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Excited to share our new paper in Ocean Sustainability! 🌊
“The right tools for the job: Considerations for implementing ecosystem-based management for marine ecosystems.”
Funded by the NZ Sustainable Seas Challenge.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
#EBM #OceanSustainability
“The right tools for the job: Considerations for implementing ecosystem-based management for marine ecosystems.”
Funded by the NZ Sustainable Seas Challenge.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
#EBM #OceanSustainability
Reposted by Dana Clark
A study conducted by the University of Liège at the marine and oceanographical research station STARESO (Calvi, Corsica) reveals that transplantation method directly influences the root microbiome, which is essential for the survival of seagrass plants.
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The role of the microbiome in the successful transplantation of seagrass meadows - Project Seagrass
A study reveals that transplantation method directly influences the root microbiome, which is essential for the survival of seagrass plants.
www.projectseagrass.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A study conducted by the University of Liège at the marine and oceanographical research station STARESO (Calvi, Corsica) reveals that transplantation method directly influences the root microbiome, which is essential for the survival of seagrass plants.
Read more:
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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
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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