The Chesapeake Bay's seagrass is thriving again thanks to more than 30 years of human-led efforts to reduce pollution and restore ecosystems.
Dr. Richard Zimmerman, a professor in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at °¼Í¹ÊÓƵ, has been a longtime contributor to those efforts with research that shows how seagrasses are an important source of carbon burial even though they don't occupy much territory. Dr. Zimmerman and his colleagues, °¼Í¹ÊÓƵ professors David Burdige and Victoria Hill, are working on a new research project that's currently being funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. See more on the research here.
L to R) Jeremy Bleakny, research technician; Richard Zimmerman, professor in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Victoria Hill, °¼Í¹ÊÓƵ oceanography research scientist; Brian Collister, graduate student and; David Burdige, professor and eminent scholar in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences going to a field site from the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory.