TIMES RECORD • March 13, 2025
Scientists are working to restore what has been lost — roughly half of the native eelgrass cover. Bowdoin College senior Lucy Dutton helped scatter 40,000 seeds near Cousins and Little John Islands, just off the coast of Yarmouth. She has been busy working in the lab this winter, reserving some seeds to test germination rates. Her studies seek to reveal how aquatic plants respond to stress, such as temperature and salinity changes, in Petri dishes — knowledge that is vital for guiding future restoration along the East Coast.