Date: April 8, 2019 Participants: HSBC, KPMG, Woodside energy, ANZ, AusPost, Ernst & Young Site: Stony Creek Backwash, Melbourne Research: Quantifying Blue Carbon gains from mangrove restoration From wasteland to wetland ! The day in the field kicked-off with Steve Wilson, president of Friends of Stony Creek, who introduced participants to the history and ecologyRead more
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Date: April 4, 2019 Participants: HSBC, Department of Conservation NZ Site: Pt Chevalier, Auckland Research: Quantifying Blue Carbon gains for mangrove expansion Citizen Scientists take part in NZ coring campaign! Auckland mangrove forests have expanded due to the high sediment load and low water flow within the bays. Although they are often seen like aRead more
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
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
Citizen Scientists from HSBC and the Sydney Fish Markets participated in the third data collection field trip to Towra Point, Sydney. They first learned about the ecological importance of this Ramsar site and got to familiarise with the saltmarsh and mangrove species. Then, they helped Dr. Jeff Kelleway take measurements of the mangrove trees. UsingRead more
Another amazing citizen science day at Towra Point. The day kicked-off with HSBC employees taking part of a questionnaire research led by Dr. Emma Mckinley [Cardiff University, UK]. Through a series of short surveys, she is testing whether immersive experiences can change attitudes towards “uncharismatic” wetlands. Participants were then immersed into the world of corporateRead more
Citizen scientists from HSBC & Qantas joined the first Sydney field trip of the #BlueCarbonArmy. The field trip started with talks from HSBC, Earthwatch and the Blue Carbon lab introducing key concepts such as “Sustainability”, “Natural Capital” and “Carbon Sequestration”. Then, we travelled to the saltmarsh and mangrove system of Towra Point Nature reserve (oneRead more
