As part of a 20-plus-years project, researchers and volunteers spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds over plots covering more than 200 hectares, just beyond the wide expanses of salt marsh off the southern end of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
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Over the years, the expansion of coastal marshes and the retreat of the region’s forests have also upended local communities and livelihoods.
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She and her team have created study plots with randomly placed patches of marsh and mangrove.
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Home to sand dunes and marsh, it sits along the coast of Delaware.
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Scientists have linked the health of marsh grasses to the ability of shorelines to absorb the energy of waves.
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Following a conversation with Marsh, the two met at a pub in London.
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The landscape looks something like the marsh behind the Toys ‘R’ Us where Tony Soprano might bury a body in Jersey.
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The actual field, where Richard was unhorsed and slain in a medieval marsh, is more than a mile away to the southwest.
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Since 1977, Star Wars has been an essential touchstone for both Povenmire and Marsh.
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“There are a lot of diehard fans who I think are genuinely worried about Disney doing Star Wars,” admits Marsh.
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He is credited with a great sanitary feat in the draining of a marsh, and his knowledge of medicine was held to be supernatural.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
This island, on the sea side, is a meadow or marsh intersected by several kills or creeks.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680|Jasper Danckaerts
Does a marsh receive the price of its reeds, or fields the price of their vegetation?
Archology and the Bible|George A. Barton
On the single isle of Makatea, where the lagoon is now a marsh, the disease has made a home.
In the South Seas|Robert Louis Stevenson
He crossed the marsh and then the ridge of low hills to the northward, finally coming out upon a large lake.
Ungava Bob|Dillon Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for marsh (1 of 2)
marsh
/ (mɑːʃ) /
noun
low poorly drained land that is sometimes flooded and often lies at the edge of lakes, streams, etcCompare swamp (def. 1) Related adjective: paludal
Derived forms of marsh
marshlike, adjective
Word Origin for marsh
Old English merisc; related to German Marsch, Dutch marsk; related to mere ²
British Dictionary definitions for marsh (2 of 2)
Marsh
/ (mɑːʃ) /
noun
Dame (Edith) Ngaio (ˈnaɪəʊ). 1899–1981, New Zealand crime writer, living in Britain (from 1928). Her many detective novels include Final Curtain (1947) and Last Ditch (1977)
Rodney (William). born 1947, Australian cricketer: a wicketkeeper, he took 355 dismissals in 96 test matches (1970–84)
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An area of low-lying wetland in which the level of water is generally shallow and often fluctuating. The water may be either standing or slow-moving. The water in a marsh is also more or less neutral or alkaline, in contrast to the water in a bog, which is acidic. The environment of a marsh is in general well-oxygenated and nutrient-rich and allows a great variety of organisms to flourish. In contrast to a swamp, in which there is an abundance of woody plants, the plants in a marsh are mostly herbaceous. Reeds and rushes dominate the vegetation of marshes. See also salt marsh.