This week is NAIDOC week, where we celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year’s theme is Heal Country, which means embracing First Nation’s cultural knowledge and understanding of Country as part of Australia’s national heritage, and that the culture and values of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders are respected equally toRead more
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Farm dam fieldwork 🐮🤠 Only a few days before the onset of Melbourne lockdown, two intrepid BCL members, Noyan and Pawel, completed a remarkable fieldwork campaign to measure farm dam emissions across the South-East of Australia. After visiting 64 farm dams and collecting 268,012 observations, we now have a massive dataset to analyse methane andRead more
Why read a story when you can jump into it and live the story for yourself? Immerse yourself in a StoryMap about carbon breakdown in wetlands. Who are we? Savitri, Hosna, Ali, and Nicola are undergraduate students from Deakin University who are interested in innovative approaches to help the environment. What is a story map?Read more
At the Blue Carbon Lab, we are happy to host volunteers and interns who visit the lab to learn about coastal wetlands and gain skills in field and laboratory techniques for blue carbon research. Learn about one of our current volunteers, Savitri Thurairatnam: I have been working with the Blue Carbon Lab on and offRead more
It has not been until recently that seaweeds, also known as macroalgae, are getting greater consideration as a substantial source of blue carbon. They have been previously overlooked because they grow on hard surfaces, and therefore don’t facilitate the accretion of carbon within their habitat, like accreting coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass meadows, andRead more
When Dr. Maria del Mar Palacios led Blue Carbon Lab teammates and volunteers to the start of the Citizen Science project in Feb 2020, we did not anticipate it to be such a bumpy road with a big boom event at its end in Feb 2021. We endured through one of the world’s strictest COVID-19Read more
The BCL Newsletter (February 2021) is hot off the press! ReadSubscribeRead more
Guest Author: Dr. Stacey Trevathan-Tackett So does that mean you’re the tea bag lady? Yes, I suppose it does. In 2017, the global initiative TeaComposition H2O began with the aim of better understanding decomposition processes in wetland and aquatic ecosystems. Over 100 participants from 30 countries joined the initiative, deploying green and rooibos Lipton teaRead more
It is with great sadness the unexpected passing of David Rhodes (November 19, 1958 – December 5, 2020). Dave was the director and senior archaeologist at Heritage Insight Pty Ltd, which he founded in 2000 and is one of the longest-running cultural heritage management companies in Victoria. Dave was responsible for all aspects of theRead more
Back in October 2020, Chase Aghan – Project Officer (Forest, Fire and Parks) for Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation and Dr Brad Farmilo – Senior Scientist & Plant ecologist, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (DELWP) presented at the State-Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams (SWIFFT) seminars series on native grasslands. They used the workRead more
