Shout out to meghan.holloran (17, Texas) for making it known just how important seagrass is through her Silver Award winning prose piece in the 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest, "Sensational Seagrass: Could Prioritizing Seagrass Be the Answer?", which inspired this infographic 🙌 "I kind of stumbled upon the topic of seagrass," she wrote ✍️ "When I was conducting research on the topics I was thinking of, I found the 2020 United Nations Environmental Programme on seagrass, and I became fascinated with it. My first and only real-life encounter with seagrass was on a trip to Aruba with my family. I had snorkeled a seagrass meadow looking at starfish, and I remember the water being remarkably clear. I felt like this was a sign I should look into the topic in more depth, and the research I found surprised me. 🐠 After doing research on seagrass, I think that it is overlooked in the conservation community despite its wide range of benefits. It is a viable way to capture carbon from the air, w...