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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
