# @fromthebowseat on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDZR0DNaGX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73154489-fromthebowseat-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/a75bfbd39d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-09-20T18:11:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs 🪸 (@fromthebowseat) — https://gondola.cc/fromthebowseat

## Caption

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, with similar capacities to rainforests. Some strains of seagrass are also more resistant to rising water temperatures, which gives me hope in this ongoing fight against climate change." 🌊

She added, "I hope one day I can aid conservationists in creating a seagrass nursery in areas where seagrass has been depleted and destroyed, preferably from my home state as a summer project."

Check out her piece via the 🔗 in our bio!
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#OceanAwarenessContest #2020OceanAwarenessContest #youngwriter #prosewriting #oceanconservation #oceanawareness #marineducation #seagrasses #savetheocean #actonclimate #climatesolutions

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oceanconservation, marineducation, savetheocean, seagrasses, climatesolutions, 2020oceanawarenesscontest, youngwriter, prosewriting, oceanawareness, actonclimate, oceanawarenesscontest

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