 Seagrasses are a valuable part of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem. They provide fish habitat, they filter out nutrients and find sediment, track carbon and their food for dugong and turtle. The citizen scientists of the Seafar project have given over a thousand hours of volunteer time to help us at Seamerick collect over a million seagrass seeds. With these seeds we're working out all the information you get on the back of a seed packet so that we can develop techniques for large-scale seagrass restoration which will help both our coastal environments and our reef.