Outreach

2025

Poster at the SAME18: Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet

Katharina Kesy, Tadhg Ó Corcora, Anne Brauer, Eduardo Infantes, Matteo Lattuada, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, Boris Schröder, Maike Paul, Mia M. Bengtsson presented "Microbiome dynamics in restored seagrass meadows: implications for ecosystem recovery " at the scientific conference SAME18
02.10.25, Barcelona, Spanien

Talk at the SAME18: Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet

Anne Brauer, Katharina Kesy, Eduardo Infantes, Mia M. Bengtsson presented "Seed and sediment microbiomes influence the germination of seagrass seed"  at the scientific conference SAME18
02.10.25, Barcelona, Spanien

Poster at the SAME18: Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet

Yann-Hervé Koutou, Katharina Kesy, Anne Brauer, Rebecca Gebbe, Matteo Lattuada, Mia Bengtsson presented "Leaf morphological traits and environmental gradients shape microbial diversity and community composition in the Zostera marina phyllosphere" at the scientific conference SAME18
30.09.25, Barcelona, Spanien

Talk at the SAME18: Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet

Sven Küster, Anne Brauer, Catalina Moreno Suna, Esther Thomsen, Jana Willim, Thorsten Reusch und Mia M. Bengtsson presented "Manipulation of the seed microbiome in Zostera marina affects germination rates" at the scientific conference SAME18
30.09.25, Barcelona, Spanien

Talk at International Academic Symposium

Matteo Lattuada (TU Berlin) presented „Seagrass in the Caspian and beyond” at the International Academic Symposium: todays ecology of the Caspian Sea - restoration or degradation: prospects
03.10.25, Gilazi, Azerbaijan

Talk ICYMARE Bremerhaven

Anna-Lucia Buer (EUCC-D) presented „Stakeholder Engagement in Seagrass Restoration” at the ICYMARE-conference
11.09.25, Bremerhaven, Germany

Kolloquium Potsdam University

Boris Schröder presented "Understanding plant-related ecosystem services in coastal and urban systems"
27.01.25, Potsdam, Germany

2024

Conference "Marin restaurering"

Mia Bengtsson presented "SeaStore: Ålgräsrestaurering längs den tyska Östersjökusten (Eelgrass restoration along the German Baltic Sea coast)"
28.11.2024, Malmö, Sweden 2024

Blue Restoration Workshop, Baltic Coast Dialog

Katharina Kesy presented "SeaStore: Seagrass restoration in the German Baltic Sea"
19.09.2024, Wolgast, Germany

International Ocean Health Symposium

Angela Stevenson, Tadhg Ó Corcora and Thorsten Reusch presented a poster "Seagrass canopies lower Vibrio & this ecosystem function is immediately renewed via restoration"
29.08.-30.08.2024, Kiel, Germany

Akademie am Meer – Landschaftsökologie in Küstensystemen

Boris Schröder presented „Bauen aus der Landschaft in der Landschaft“
20.-22.08.24, Sylt, Germany

Symposium “30 Jahre Forschungstauchen in Rostock”

Katharina Kesy presented "SeaStore: Erfolgreiche Seegraswiederansiedlung in der deutschen Ostsee“
11.07.2024, Warnemünde, Germany

World Seagrass Conference

Katharina Kesy presented "Microbiome dynamics in restored seagrass meadows: implications for ecosystem recovery"
17.06.-21.06.2024, Napoly, Italy

World Seagrass Conference

Matteo Lattuada, Lars Kamperdicks, Felix Gerlach, Thomas Langmaack, Maike Pau, Tadhg Ó Corcora, Katharina Kesy, Anne Brauer, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, Mia M. Bengtsson and Boris Schröder presented a poster "Planning restoration to ensure maximum shoot survival in zostera marina"
17.06.-21.06.2024, Napoly, Italy

NaturschutzDigital 2024 – Modellierung im Naturschutz, Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Boris Schröder, Matteo Lattuada, Lars Kamperdicks, Maike Paul and the SeaStore team presented "Modellierung für die Renaturierung von Seegraswiesen"

03.-06.06.2024, Vilm, Germany

Meeresumweltsymposium

Thorsten Reusch and Maike Paul presented "Seegraswiesen als Kohlenstoffsenke.“
18.05.24, Hamburg, Germany

CoastLab

Maike Paul presented "Adapting methods for bed level assessment in and around submerged vegetation"
13.05-16.05.2024, Delft, Niederlande

SBR-MPI Spring Workshop

Maike Paul and Thorsten Reusch presented "SeaStore: Seagrass restoration in the Baltic Sea”
2024, online

2023

6th International Conference on Progress in Marine Conservation

Mia Bengtsson presented "SeaStore: Seagrass restoration in the Baltic Sea"
18-22.09.2023, Stralsund, Germany

FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists

Mia Bengtsson presented "Welcome to the microbial jungle: Biofilms on seagrass and their role in ecosystem restoration"
10-14.07.2023, Hamburg, DGermany

ASLO 2023 Aquatic Science Meeting

Katharina Kesy presented "Response of Zostera marina microbiomes to seagrass restoration in the German Baltic Sea" at the ASLO 2023 Aquatic Science Meeting,
June 4 - 9 2023, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2022

3. Küstensymposium “Küste im Wandel 2022”

Maike Paul presented "SeaStore – Seegras für den Klimaschutz“
09.11.-11.11.2022, Hamburg, Germany

3. Küstensymposium “Küste im Wandel 2022”

Andrea Wunsch presented “Öffentliche Wahrnehmung von CO₂ Entnahme durch die Wiederherstellung von Ökosystemen und politisches Vertrauen in Deutschland“ at the 3. Küstensymposium “Küste im Wandel 2022” on November, 9th in Hamburg.

ECSA 59

Matteo Lattuada and Boris Schröder-Esselbach presented "Distribution of Common Eelgrass (Zostera marina) functional traits in the Kattegat, Baltic Sea“
05.09.-08.09.2022, San Sebastian, Spain

ECSA 59

Maike Paul presented "SeaStore - diversity enhancement through seagrass restoration“
05.09.-08.09.2022, San Sebastian, Spain

18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME18)

Mia Bengtsson presented a poster "Shifts in sediment and Zostera marina microbiomes at early stages of seagrass restoration in the German Baltic Sea”
14.08-19.08.2022, Lausanne, Schweiz

International Seagrass Biology Workshop

Tadhg O’Corcora presented "Seagrass Zostera marina restoration in the German Baltic Sea enhances biodiversity while biodiversity in turn regulates transplant success"
09.08.22, Annapolis, MD, USA

World Seagrass Conference

Matteo Lattuada, Tadhg Ó Corcora, Marvin Lehmann, Katharina Kesy, Anne Brauer , Thorsten Reusch, Maike Paul, Mia Bengtsson and Boris Schröder-Esselbach
presented a poster "Initial lag phase in Common Eelgrass (Zostera marina) growth during a restoration experiment. How will it affect plants through winter?"
07.08.-12.8.2022 Annapolis, MD, USA

World Seagrass Conference

Tadhg Ó Corcora, Angela Stevenson, Matteo Lattuada, Marvin Lehmann, Katharina Kesy, Anne Brauer et al. presented a poster "Zostera marina restoration in the German Baltic Sea: Seagrass promoting biodiversity return while biodiversity regulates restoration success. "
07.08.-12.8.2022 Annapolis, MD, USA

World Seagrass Conference

Mareike Taphorn presented "Assess the potential use of seagrass restoration support structures"
07.08.-12.8.2022 Annapolis, MD, USA

World Seagrass Conference

Katharina Kesy presented at the World Seagrass Conference "Shifts in sediment and Zostera marina microbiomes at early stages of seagrassrestoration in the German Baltic Sea",
August 8 - 9, 2022

Workshop 'Predictability in Natural and Social Sciences'

Andrea Wunsch presented "Predicting Economic Behavior" at the KüNO Online Workshop 'Predictability in Natural and Social Science', May 3, 2022

Global Seagrass Nursery Network

Tadhg Ó Corcora presented "Seagrass Restoration in Germany: Seed Trials "
31.03.22 Kristineberg, Schweden

Lecture at the Helmholtz-Institut für Funktionelle Marine Biodiversität

Angela Stevenson and Tadhg Ó Corcora presented "Seagrass restoration in the Baltic Sea and Blue Carbon Ecosystem Services"
27.01.22 Oldenburg, Deutschland

2021

13th Baltic Sea Science Congress, Aarhus, Denmark

Matteo Lattuada presented “Variability in functional traits of Eelgrass in Sweden (Zostera marina)”, October 18-22, 2021

MASTS Annual Science Meeting (Online)

Tadhg Ó Corcora presented “SeaStore: Diversity enhancement through seagrass restoration”, October 6, 2021

GfÖ 50th Annual Meeting, Braunschweig, Germany

Matteo Lattuada presented “SeaStore - Diversity Enhancement Through Seagrass Restoration” August 30th - September 1st, 2021