Seagrass Presentation Evening
Thu, 14 Nov
|The Ecology Centre
The Ecology Centre is hosting a seagrass presentation evening to share recent updates from Heriot-Watt University and Restoration Forth.


Time & Location
14 Nov 2024, 18:30 – 20:00
The Ecology Centre, Kinghorn loch, Burntisland KY3 9YG, UK
Guests
About the event
The Ecology Centre is hosting a seagrass presentation evening on Thursday the 14th of November, to share updates from seagrass conservation and restoration work that taken place across the Firth of Forth this year.
We are pleased to be joined by Associate Professor Alastair Lyndon, from Heriot-Watt University, who will provide a talk on mapping work he and students from Heriot-Watt conducted this summer. Their work has sought to record the spatial extent occupied by seagrass meadows across the whole of the Firth of Forth. This work compliments a similar piece of work that took place a decade earlier. The two data sets can help inform how the Forth's meadows have changed over time. The second talk of the evening will be given by the Ecology Centre's Seagrass Officer, Lyle. Lyle will provide an update on this year's restoration trials and share data from monitoring and mapping sessions that took…