Seagrass Monitoring Training

Project Seagrass are running a series of citizen science training sessions across Scotland from the 9th to the 12th of April, providing community groups guidance on how to perform intertidal seagrass monitoring, in line with the approved methodology outlined in Nature Scot's Community-led Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Handbook. The Ecology Centre, as part of our work in seagrass restoration with Restoration Forth, will host one of the practical sessions. The meadow located on Burntisland Sands will serve as one of the test sites for this training programme.

Dr. Richard Unsworth, Dr. Esther Thomsen and Katy Waring all of whom work for Project Seagrass will be delivering this two-part training programme, which will provide community members expertise in planning and performing robust intertidal seagrass surveys. This event will comprise of two elements, a virtual online training session which will take place on 4th of April from 6pm - 8pm, and a practical…