Seagrass provides food and shelter for many organisms, and are a nursery ground for commercially important prawn and fish species. The high primary production rates of seagrasses are closely linked to the high production rates of associated fisheries.

Since the time of the dinosaurs, four groups of flowering plants (angiosperms) colonised the oceans. Known as 'seagrass', they are the only flowering plants that can live underwater. More closely related to lilies and gingers than to true grasses, they grow in sediment on the sea floor with erect, elongate leaves and a buried root-like structure (rhizome).

Seagrass certainly doesn't get the interest and protection it deserves. That's why we've created this officially endorsed Ocean Decade Toolkit providing key facts, imagery and other tools needed to help create awareness and inspire action.

This online data viewer provides user-friendly access to SAV education. The tool summarizes general change trends and provides tables, maps, and reports.

This resource provides Louisiana population highlights from 1950 to 2018 and includes interactive maps.

Seagrasses are a functional group, not a taxonomic group, of angiosperms (flowering plants), i.e. various seagrass families do not necessary have to be closely related.

This tool provides information about the strength and path of hurricanes from 1842 to the present.

These images provide habitat data in the Lower Barataria-Terrebonne Estuarine Basins for 1956, 1978, 1988, and 2000.

The Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative enlists the help of 'citizen scientists' in America's heartland to collect data on the state of plastic pollution along the river. To date, over 100,000 plastic litter items have been catalogued through the project. The data gathered is helping to create the first-ever plastic pollution 'map' along the river, which can be used by cities and towns to take action.

NOAA's Weather Tower at the New Canal Lighthouse provides real-time data for a variety of water and air testing parameters.