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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: black; background-color: white;">PLANTS GET SICK TOO: MONITORING SEAGRASS WASTING DISEASE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: black;">
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Webinar date/time:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: black;">Tuesday March 19, 2024; 6pm ET</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Duration:
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">What will you learn?</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">With climate change, disease outbreaks are increasing in our ocean and it's crucial to understand how they are affecting
foundationally important marine species such as seagrasses. Seagrass meadows provide habitat for an extraordinary number of different organisms, can protect coastlines against storms, and have the ability to store harmful greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere
into the soil. Tomales Bay estuary in northern California holds an estimated 9% of the state's seagrass population, and while disease is present in the area, not much is known about if there are different pathogen strains within seagrass meadows. Join Serina
Moheed as she talks about how she monitors seagrass wasting disease in the field (spoiler- it's muddy!), methods for analyzing the effects of the disease, and how in her opinion growing a marine pathogen in the lab can be much harder than taking care of a
houseplant.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Presenter:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Serina Moheed, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Davis</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: black;">Registration:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: black;">https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7392774674420476757</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Details:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/NOAAScienceSeminars.php</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Webinar presented by
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; color: black;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/NOS Office of National Marine Sanctuaries</span></p>
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