Submerged aquatic vegetation, or SAV, also referred to as seagrass, provides critical ecosystem services in coastal waters.
SAV protects against shoreline erosion, improves water quality and provides habitat for fish and waterfowl. It is critically important to the wellbeing of both estuarine ecosystems and coastal communities.
North Carolina is home to the highest seagrass acreage on the Atlantic seaboard. But within the state and around the world, SAV is under threat. Some estimates say that since 1980, the world has lost nearly a third of its total seagrass. The decline has accelerated in recent years due to human activity such as habitat destruction and pollution. The loss in SAV not only presents issues within the ecosystem, but comes with hefty economic costs.
Through funding from the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership (APNEP), an interdisciplinary team of researchers at NC State University and Duke University have published a report that estimates the market and nonmarket economic losses from declines in submerged aquatic vegetation in the Albemarle-Pamlico estuary.
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Jessica Whitehead Named Joan Brock Endowed Executive Director for Old Dominion University’s .
Old Dominion UniversityFebruary 25, 2021 GMT
Jessica Whitehead
Jessica Whitehead
Norfolk, VA, Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Old Dominion University announced that Jessica Whitehead has been named the Joan Brock Endowed Executive Director of the Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (ICAR).
Whitehead joins ODU from the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR), where she served as its first chief resilience officer. Her new appointment marks another chapter in ODU’s decade-long leadership in coastal resilience research, education and outreach.