Developing a Classroom Eelgrass Cultivation Program for Massachusetts

Lead Pi: · 3/2005 - 2/2007

Project Personnel: Anthony Wilbur, Sarah Hammond

Project number: 2005-E/E-54

Eelgrass is both the most abundant seagrass in Massachusetts and one of the most ecologically valuable marine and estuarine habitats in North American coastal waters. In this project, students are learning to cultivate eelgrass as part of a polyculture recirculating aquaculture system.