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In 2025, PhD student Natalie Coy launched an exciting new project tracking seagrass flowering across UNSW and beyond, called Seeds of the Sea. Find out more here, keep an eye out and contribute your findings on the website.

Mariana Mayer-Pinto as co-lead of the Living Seawalls team was awarded the NSW DCCEEW Eureka Prize for Environmental Research in 2025.

Living Seawalls presented at the Women in STEM expo for high school students at the Australian National Maritime Museum, on International Women's Day (March 8th 2024). 

The UNSW Newsroom recently published an article on Project Restore, which aims to restore habitats in Sydney Harbour at the seascape level. This project combines multiple projects for a more holistic approach to restoration, including Living Seawalls, Operation Posidonia, seahorse hotels and more.

Living Seawalls was featured in Australian Geographic in 2024. "In an alliance between Australian marine ecologists and industrial designers, science and art meet to restore ecological function at some of the world’s most altered coastal landscapes."

SEACS lab was recently featured on both Radio National and ABC News, with Milly Caley and Mariana Mayer Pinto interviewed about the effects of Artificial Light at Night on coastal ecosystems, including recent experiments looking at the effects of warming and Artificial Light at Night on seaweeds and sea urchins.