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PhD opportunity in Coastal Wetland Restoration

By Blue Carbon Lab | News | Comments are Closed | 4 March, 2019 | 1

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

Scientists find historical declines in Kelp forest of southeast Australia

By Blue Carbon Lab | Kelp, News, Publication | Comments are Closed | 22 February, 2019 | 4

New Deakin and University of Melbourne research has put a spotlight on the health of Port Phillip Bay, showing the effects of the millennium drought has almost wiped out kelp forests in the bay’s north. Lead author Dr Paul Carnell, an associate research fellow in Deakin’s Blue Carbon Lab, said the drought’s decline in rainfallRead more

The fight to save the ‘armpits of the coast’ to store carbon

By Blue Carbon Lab | News | Comments are Closed | 22 January, 2019 | 0

ABC 730| Jan 21, 2019 | By Lauren Day For most people, marine biology conjures up images of dolphins, turtles and coral reefs. But like many careers, Dr Peter Macreadie’s is far less glamorous than people think. “I love the smell of mud in the morning,” he told 7.30 as he squelched through swampy saltRead more

Sediment microprofiling experiments with visiting scientist

By Blue Carbon Lab | Labwork | Comments are Closed | 18 January, 2019 | 0

From the 8th to the 20th of December, the Blue Carbon Lab was honoured by the visit of Dr Kasper Brodersen – a microsensor expert from the University of Copenhagen. Dr Brodersen trained staff from the Blue Carbon lab in the use of microsensors and collaborated in several research projects using microprofiling techniques on sedimentsRead more

City bankers forego afternoon tea in pursuit of innovative climate change solution

By Blue Carbon Lab | News | Comments are Closed | 14 January, 2019 | 0

SUNDAY STAR TIMES| Auckland, NZ | Dec 16, 2018 | By Laine Moger An eye-watering suction sound burps from beneath the mangrove mud, as banker Chris Russell attempts to dig a hole big enough to plant a Lipton tea bag. It’s a different change of pace for the HSBC chief executive who is wading throughRead more

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

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  • Home
  • 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
      • Interns and Volunteers
      • Alumni
  • Research
    • Wetland Carbon
      • Blue Carbon
        • Seychelles Blue Carbon
        • Queensland Blue
        • Victoria’s Blue Carbon
        • Blue Carbon Management
      • Teal Carbon
        • Farm dams
        • 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
    • System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA)
    • Feasibility Assessments
    • Remote Sensing
    • Microbial Analysis
    • Marine Biosecurity
  • Publications
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