The Community Eelgrass Restoration Initiative (CERI) is a community-led, climate-smart, and knowledge-based conservation project. 

Working alongside them is a team of dedicated students, volunteers, and staff who are passionate about the environment and all things eelgrass!

Our research is being conducted in close collaboration with the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and local Mi’kmaq communities to ensure our project incorporates all ways of knowing and honours the invaluable information passed on through generations. 

Our Projects

Restoration

Replanting eelgrass by manually harvesting seeds. This process is extremely time consuming, so we are working on…

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Blue Carbon

What is Blue Carbon? Blue carbon refers to carbon that is stored in the world's ocean and…

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Biodiversity

What is Biodiversity? Biodiversity refers to the variety of living species on earth, including plants, animals, bacteria,…

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Experiments at Dalhousie Aquatron

The Aquatron facility at Dalhousie University provides us with the perfect setting to grow eelgrass under controlled…

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Drones and Mapping

We will be using high resolution mapping from aerial drones to identify eelgrass presence and the extent…

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Machine Learning

Manual Image Analyses A portion of CERI revolves around detecting whether eelgrass beds have either recovered, deteriorated,…

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