Adriana Vergés
Seaweed Solutions
Every problem has a solution, and sometimes that solution is seaweed sex. Professor Adriana Vergés is a marine ecologist based at UNSW Sydney, where she co-leads a kelp restoration project to re-establish lost underwater forests of crayweed (Phyllospora comosa) in the Sydney Metropolitan region.
Crayweed can either be male or female, so Adriana’s team transplants a mix of both onto denuded reefs using a biodegradable mesh — and lets them get on with reproducing and re-establishing an essential habitat and food source for Sydney’s coastal marine biodiversity. Read all about it at operationcrayweed.com.
