ODU Researchers Explore the Role of Seagrasses in Coastal Carbon Flow

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 Old Dominion University, 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, ODU 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, ODU 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.