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Home 2018

New research: Deep-water seagrass could help protect the GBR against climate change

By Blue Carbon Lab | News, Publication | Comments are Closed | 24 December, 2018 | 0

NEWSWEEKDec 12, 2018 | By Hannah Osborne The Great Barrier Reef has a meadow of deep-water seagrass that acts as a huge blue carbon sink, scientists have discovered. The seagrass, which covers an area twice the size of New Jersey, stores almost 28 million tonnes of organic carbon—and could be helping to ward off climateRead more

HSBC field trip #7 & #8 (AUCK)

By Blue Carbon Lab | Citizen Science, Fieldwork, HSBC | Comments are Closed | 20 December, 2018 | 0

Our Citizen Science program went international! The Blue Carbon Lab travelled to Auckland’s estuaries (Hobson Bay and Bayswater) to study the fast expansion of New Zealand ‘hobbit’ mangroves. Along NIWA scientists, Dr Carolyn Lundquist and Dr Richard Bulmer, participants collected deep soil cores (> 1m deep) and took diverse mangrove measurements along a 100 mRead more

HSBC field trip #6 (MEL)

By Blue Carbon Lab | Citizen Science, Fieldwork | Comments are Closed | 28 November, 2018 | 0

Kick-off for the HSBC Citizen Science program in Melbourne! Blue Carbon research was conducted in Jawbone, a small coastal reserve located 30 min from the CBD. Activities were led by scientists from the Blue Carbon Lab (Peter Macredie, Paul Carnell, Maria Palacios, Pawel Waryszak) who showed participants how to conduct biomass surveys of mangrove treesRead more

HSBC Field trip #4 & 5 (SYD)

By Blue Carbon Lab | Citizen Science, Fieldwork, HSBC | Comments are Closed | 23 November, 2018 | 0

Sunny and productive back-to-back field trips at Towra Point! After the morning talks at HSBC headquaters, participants joined us in the field to conduct the third monitoring of the nutrient plots. Work consisted in collecting small soil cores, taking microbe samples, and -of course- finding the 60 tea bags. Although the tea bags have beenRead more

Opportunity to join Blue Carbon Lab Research

By Blue Carbon Lab | Fieldwork, Labwork | Comments are Closed | 19 November, 2018 | 3

Do you want to submerge yourself into research on Blue Carbon? Well, you can in the lab and/or in the field! Come along and join the coring campaign around Melbourne (Victoria) and help with the processing of samples in the lab. What is it all about? Removal of atmospheric CO2 through biosequestration is necessary toRead more

Newsletter Nov18

By Blue Carbon Lab | News Letter | Comments are Closed | 15 November, 2018 | 0

Welcome to the November edition of the Blue Carbon Lab (BCL) Newsletter! Find here all our recent updates on: New grants putting science into action Wetland restoration Sea urchin monitoring HSBC Citizen Science program Oil decommissioning workshop Emissions from farm’s dams Freshwater fieldwork Coastal fieldwork New scientific publications Lab members in the spotlight New grantsRead more

Greenhouse gas fluxes of freshwater wetlands in the Murray LLS region

By Blue Carbon Lab | Fieldwork | Comments are Closed | 6 November, 2018 | 0

Freshwater scientists from the Blue Carbon Lab completed a 14 day field trip to the Murray Local Land Services (LLS) region in NSW, where they monitored carbon stocks and fluxes from a floodplain billabong. Wetlands are known to store significant quantities of carbon, but they can also produce greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2),Read more

Farm’s dam good place to cut carbon emissions: World-first study

By Blue Carbon Lab | News, Publication | Comments are Closed | 5 November, 2018 | 0

A Deakin study quantifying the greenhouse gas emissions from farm dams for the first time has shown they are a significant contributor to manmade climate change, but that emissions could be cut in half with targeted changes to farming practices. The study, published today in the journal Global Change Biology, sampled agricultural dams from regionalRead more

Wave loggers to measure coastal protection

By Blue Carbon Lab | Fieldwork | Comments are Closed | 15 October, 2018 | 0

PhD student Jaya Kelvin has been busy deploying wave loggers around Port Philip Bay and Western Port (Coastal Victoria). He is studying how mangrove, seagrass and saltmarsh systems help attenuate wave impact on the coast and what is the value of such coastal protection for Victorians. With the help of collaborators Rebecca Morris, Beth Strain,Read more

HSBC field trip #3 (SYD)

By Blue Carbon Lab | Citizen Science, Fieldwork | Comments are Closed | 2 October, 2018 | 0

Citizen Scientists from HSBC and the Sydney Fish Markets participated in the third data collection field trip to Towra Point, Sydney. They first learned about the ecological importance of this Ramsar site and got to familiarise with the saltmarsh and mangrove species. Then, they helped Dr. Jeff Kelleway take measurements of the mangrove trees. UsingRead more

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  • About
    • What we are about
    • Who we are
      • Professor Peter Macreadie
      • Dr Paul Carnell
      • Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett
      • Dr Maria del Mar Palacios
      • Dr Pawel Waryszak
      • Dr Melissa Wartman
      • Dr Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa
      • Dr Noyan Yilmaz
      • Dr Martino Malerba
      • Dr Lukas Schuster
      • Dr Tanveer Adyel
      • Dr Valentina Hurtado-McCormick
      • Dr Elodie Camprasse
      • Dr Sabiha Marine
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        • Floating wetlands
        • Revitalising Australia’s Freshwater Wetlands
      • Tea Composition H2O
    • Ecosystem services
    • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Coastal Wetland Restoration
        • The Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Program
        • Regenerating Our Coasts
        • Towards Blue Carbon Australian Carbon Credit Units
      • Kelp restoration
      • Freshwater Wetland Restoration
    • Citizen science
      • HSBC citizen science
      • GeelongPort citizen science
    • Microplastics
    • Marine Biosecurity
    • Decommissioning Infrastructure
  • Services
    • Wetland Carbon Assessments
    • Environmental Assessments
    • Environmental Restoration
    • Citizen Science
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