The Blue Carbon Lab celebrates our PhD candidates Sarah Treby and Erlania have scored research scholarships to advance Blue Carbon research in Victoria! Sarah will quantify the effect of feral horses on the carbon cycling capacity of wetlands in south-eastern Australia. By measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil carbon content, and soil moisture and temperature,Read more
Blog
Date: March 19, 2019 Participants: HSBC, Green Collar, Cairns Airport Site: Towra Point Nature Reserve, Sydney Research: Effects of Nutrient run-off on Blue Carbon stocks and fluxes Our Nutrient experiment comes to an end! The experiment, which looked at the effects of nutrient run-off on Blue Carbon stocks and fluxes, was set by citizen scientistsRead more
For the last six months the BCL has been surrounded by enthusiastic volunteers, both current students and graduates, who have given us a hand with Blue Carbon research. Some volunteers helped Pawel collect hundreds of soil cores. There was a lot of sinking mud, Victoria heat, and rolling thunderstorms. Some of them, Miles and Sam,Read more
A PhD project is available at the Blue Carbon Lab at Deakin University’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences to work with A/Prof Peter Macreadie, Dr Paul Carnell and Dr Melissa Wartman. We are seeking a highly motivated candidate interested in developing an understanding of best practices for Wetland Restoration. Open to international applicants. Successful studentsRead more
