Join the Seagrass Community of Practice to advance monitoring, genetics, and Gulf restoration stategies in a round table discussion focusing on some recent highlights: 

• Mobile Bay SAV: >50% loss since 1981 (storms, nutrients, dredging); recent AL gains. Use 1m/30cm aerial, 3m imagery + novel in-water sampling.
• Reproduction: Thalassia testudinum leaf/flower scars; Halodule wrightii seed banks. Chandeleur Islands show persistent diversity (all 5 Gulf species) despite erosion-driven declines.
• Chandeleur/ChIRPS: Long-term monitoring informs restoration amid land loss.
• Genetics: Chandeleur (isolated/high-disturbance) and Florida resilient planting via genotyping/connectivity.
• Hydrodynamics: Wave/current thresholds; engineered mitigation needed.
• Blue Carbon: MS Sound meadows net TA sources (TA/DIC >1), sequester C, buffer acidification—first regional data.