Scientists see weed as an ocean solution
UNSW UNSW Science’s Associate Professor Adriana Vergés explains why she is one of the driving forces behind the Manly Seaweed Forests Festival. Associate Professor Adriana Vergés and the Operation Crayweed team started restoring Sydney’s underwater forests in 2011. The impetus for the work came from the disappearance of seaweed from much of Sydney’s coastline due to pollution caused by sewerage outfalls on beaches from the seventies through to the 1990s. The eventual construction of deep ocean outfalls to empty Sydney’s sewerage system gave scientists a chance to start rebuilding th...
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