Olivia Key, Yasamin Sharifi, and Lillian Cooper have been examining the sedimentology and stratigraphy of seagrass beds in Core Sound, NC, by collecting transects of cores from the back-barrier shoreline across seagrass meadows. The photo above shows us about to cut a core into more manageable pieces in the field. The core is lying across the bow. We are positioned at the edge of a seagrass meadow and standing on a sandflat that formed when a nearby paleo tidal inlet was active. The underwater photo, below, was taken at the same spot and shows seagrass that recently colonized the sandflat. Notice all the oxygen bubbles. We just published our first seagrass paper in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, entitled “Lithologic facies and stratigraphic evolution of North Atlantic seagrass beds reveal centennial-scale resilience to burial events.” You can find it HERE.
