We are a group of coastal ecologists in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Our research projects broadly focus on how changing climate and land use affects coastal ecosystems, including seagrass, marshes, and oyster reefs, and the mechanisms underlying their resilience. We integrate long-term observations, experiments, and models to understand how these ecosystems function, to track how they change over time, and to predict how they may change in the future. A hallmark of our lab’s work is blue carbon sequestration, including the impact of marine heatwaves on carbon stocks and the role of ecosystem connectivity on carbon sequestration at the landscape scale. For more than two decades, we have studied how seagrass restoration reinstates carbon and nitrogen sequestration and other ecosystem services. Much of our lab’s work is collaborative and interdisciplinary, involving partners in oceanography, hydrology, engineering, economics, arts, and the humanities. Through these collaborations and multi-sector partnerships, our research supports management and policy decisions for habitat conservation, restoration, and coastal resilience.