Aug 21, 2024 | PRESS
Agnes Mittermayr, a marine ecologist at the Center for Coastal Studies, has been tapped to join a team of about three dozen global experts in the 2030 Seagrass Breakthrough, a UN effort to conserve critical seagrass ecosystems. In December, 2023, at COP28 (United...
Jul 17, 2024 | PRESS
More than 500 seagrass scientists and engineers gathered in Naples, Italy last month for the World Seagrass Conference. The Center’s seagrass expert and Director of SeagrassNet, Agnes Mittermayr, Ph.D., was among them. The conference, which ran from June 17 to 21,...
Feb 29, 2024 | PRESS
Called “the forgotten ecosystem” by the UN Environment Programme, seagrass beds cover 0.2 percent of the ocean floor, yet account for 10 percent of the ocean’s carbon sequestration. As biodiversity hotspots, seagrass beds also account for 25 percent of the world’s...
Aug 3, 2023 | PRESS
Eelgrass (Zostera marina) plays an important role in healthy marine ecosystems, but eelgrass beds are shrinking throughout the Commonwealth, particularly on Cape Cod. Center for Coastal Studies marine ecologist Agnes Mittermayr, Ph.D., is leading efforts to...
