Save The Bay - Narragansett Bay's Wenley Ferguson explains how we restore eelgrass and why it is so important. Recorded at King's Beach, Newport Rhode Island, May 29, 2008.

Underwater footage of a healthy Narragansett Bay eelgrass bed. Learn more about eelgrass restoration at http://www.savebay.org

Members of the Vancouver Apneist freediving club conducting a survey of eelgrass near Bamfield, BC. The survey involved mapping the grass beds with GPS as well as density counts and sampling

Suzanne and Glenn Rankin Shot this wonderful underwater video in the Eel grass beds of the Great South Bay of Long Island New York. Suzanne is a Biology teacher and Glenn is a music teacher and together they photographed and composed the music for this production. When people view this video they cant believe the the sea life found in our local waters.

Take a closer look inside a Narragansett Bay eelgrass bed and you will find some of the marine life it supports. Keep your eye out for the sea horse. Learn more at http://www.savebay.org

Eelgrass is one of the most important plants in the estuary. The health of this plant is often a measure of the health of the environment. Also includes a look at how septic systems impact estuary plants.

Save The Bay eelgrass restoration volunteer Bill Prescott of North Kingstown, RI, talks about why he is involved in this effort to restore Narragansett Bay eelgrass.

Everything you ever wanted to know about eelgrass but were afraid to ask...types, location, habitat, and much more. This is a longer video clip with multiple segments.

This little octopus was in the eelgrass beds at Crescent Beach, BC.

Eelgrass is one of the most important plant species in the estuary. Tillamook estuary has both native and introduced species of eelgrass. Students learn what this means for the fragile estuarine environment.

Intern Aaron Britto spends a day with the Save The Bay eelgrass restoration team.

Eelgrass is an important estuarine habitat. Eelgrass beds are shrinking in many estuaries and this video looks at scientific efforts to "reseed" these valuable habitats.

Eelgrass Meadow video for design project

Kakaing by ndulating beds of eelgrass in the Morro Bay Harbor Channel just off the Morro Bay Natural History Museum.

A brief video introduction to eelgrass meadows.

An fyi about Eelgrass, a habitat for juvenile marine wildlife and so much more...

A NBC 10 Watershed Watch Segment featuring the RI Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Wildlife training on Eelgrass transplanting.

another video of my long island based tank. this tank is ecologically accurate, based upon long island's bays, including purple sea urchin, spotfin butterfly, northern pufferfish, blue runner jack, lookdown, pipefish and my newest creation- synthetic eelgrass. special thanks to chris pickerell at seagrassli.org for the material.

Interview with Dr. Karen McGlathery of the University of Virginia. Karen's research currently focuses on seagrass ecology, including a project on the restoration of eelgrass in Virginia coastal bays.

more from the tank i built for the quogue wildlife refuge. this video starts with a closeup of purple sea urchins, and the large spotfin butterflies behind him. all creatures were captured locally in long island. thanks again to chris pickerell at seagrassli.org for the synthetic eelgrass material.

Dr. Art Schwarzschild, site director of the Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center, describes the success story of eelgrass restoration in one of Virginia's coastal bays.

WNBC WJAR 10 Watershed Watch Report featuring the Rhode Island Mapping Partnership for Coastal Soil and Sediment (www.mapcoast.org) - video courtesy of www.turntoten.com

It was amazing to see so many hooded nudibranchs. Haging out in the shallow eel grass.

A WJAR NBC 10 Watershed Watch segment about subaqueous soil mapping in RHode Island www.mapcoast.org

The second of two videos (10 minute limit!) showing some of the diving in Port Ghalib that Naida and I enjoyed last week. See Naida swimming with turtles, and me attempting to lull one into a a false sense of security by munching on the eel grass with it. Unsuccessfully.