Dr. Benjamin Jones

Chief Conservation Officer @ProjectSeagrass | Ex-President @World_Seagrass | Research seagrass social-ecological systems | #CitSci

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

Interested in Marine Conservation? ✅
Want to help scientists locate seagrass meadows around the world? ✅
Join global citizen science project https://t.co/tXRK3fba6E and help us paint a picture of global seagrass distribution, with pictures! 📷

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

Seagrass restoration is not just about finding places where seagrass can grow, but also about working with the people, histories and pressures that shape those places.

Paper here: https://t.co/ljnMAeaobY

#Seagrass #Restoration #LocalKnowledge #MarineConservation

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

New paper out in Frontiers in Environmental Science 🌱

Fishers’ local knowledge can strengthen seagrass restoration planning.

Restoration is often guided by habitat suitability models, but success depends on more than biophysical conditions alone.

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

Local knowledge is not a soft add-on to scientific modelling. It can act as a social-ecological diagnostic layer, helping us understand opportunity, constraint and potential conflict before restoration decisions are made.

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

New Global map reveals seagrass meadows under threat — even inside protected areas! 🌍

With help from over 1000 citizen scientists, we mapped human pressures to seagrass at more than 1200 sites in 86 countries.

https://t.co/Q1CbE4FO2U

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

#Seaweed farming has many potential benefits, but scaling these farms cannot be at the expense of other habitats (e.g. #seagrass) that support people! In our short letter, we discuss why caution is needed!

https://t.co/iJfUF4gdYj

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

I haven’t posted in a while, but if you followed me here for all the seagrass love and facts, I���ve taken flight and landed on BlueSky. Find me there: https://t.co/ZBbIHFePmx

[Project Seagrass @ProjectSeagrass]

📢 New Paper!

Scientists from Project Seagrass and @SwanseaUni have outlined 10 golden rules to improve #seagrass restoration in a new Open Access Article published today in the journal @plantspplplanet

Article👉 https://t.co/kVOTNnL4Fj
Press Release 👉 https://t.co/lRIfKEvWZy

[World Seagrass Association @World_Seagrass]

We're thrilled to announce that the 16th International Seagrass Biology Workshop will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE - hosted by @EADTweets

Seagrasses, known locally as Mashurah, support 3000 dugongs and over 4000 green sea turtles across the UAE.

📸 Maitha Al Hameli

[World Seagrass Association @World_Seagrass]

What's your number one seagrass?? 🥇🌱

With one day until the reveal, share and celebrate your favourite seagrass species with us, the World Seagrass Association 😍

#seagrass #wedonthaveafavouritewelovethemall #world #allseagrass #WSA

📷 @boardshortsben || The Ocean Agency

[ISBW15 @ISBW15_WSC24]

Fellowships awards at the #ISBW15 @Seagrass_WSA
@ProjectSeagrass
Jaked
SIBM👏🏻👏🏻

[ISBW15 @ISBW15_WSC24]

A warm welcome by @BoardshortsBen, the President of the @Seagrass_WSA
💫🌿🌊

[Marjolijn Christianen @Penyuku]

I am the “The largest gathering of seagrass ecologist on the planet” in Napels: 486 attendees from 48 countries. What a conference venue and what a growth of community a 400% increase from my first seagrass workshop in 2010. @ISBW15_WSC24 quote: @BoardshortsBen

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

Stoked to be opening the largest ever gathering of seagrass people on the planet. Thank you . So grateful to be President of this incredible and growing community 💚🌱

#oscarsselfie

[Richard Unsworth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ZosteraR]

Convention on Migratory Species now recognizes role seagrasses play in supporting migratory species and places the onus upon signatory states to ensure their conservation.

Read our letter about this:

DM for pdf as letter behind paywall

https://t.co/MEnA3uxsqk

@BoardshortsBen

[ISBW15 @ISBW15_WSC24]

ISBW15&WSC2024 FELLOWSHIPS

Are there FELLOWSHIPS available for STUDENTS?
➡️ YES✅
...for EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONALS?
➡️ YES✅
...and for LOW and LOWER-MIDDLE-income economies?
➡️ YES✅

APPLY HERE➡️https://t.co/j609Rtab14

‼️The deadline is January 22nd‼️

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

@mjattrill Also the WFO plant list specifies it as noltii https://t.co/jmgKSV1txQ

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

#TeamSeagrass, how do you refer to dwarf eelgrass?

[Dr. Benjamin Jones @BoardshortsBen]

@mjattrill But not according to Kew POWO which is renowned for being a solid authority on plants https://t.co/liuiekmZEG