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
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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
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
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
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
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
