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Field recap Sydney #18&19

By Blue Carbon Lab | Citizen Science, Fieldwork, HSBC | Comments are Closed | 29 September, 2019 | 0

Date: Sept 26-27, 2019

Participants: HSBC, Next DC, Allens, Energetics, ANZ

Site: Towra Point, Sydney

Research: Variability of Blue Carbon stocks across coastal vegetated systems

Two days of data collection at Towra point !!

Citizen Scientists from Sydney joined us in the field on Sept 26 and 27. Days started early at HSBC’s Barangaroo office where HSBC, Earthwatch, and the Blue Carbon Lab gave presentations on corporate sustainability, natural capital and coastal wetlands.

Participants then traveled together to Towra Point Ramsar site. A 600 ha nature reserve in Botany Bay, hosting 40% of the mangroves and 60% of the tidal marshes in the Sydney the region.

Dr Maria Palacios introduced participants to the ecology of Australian coastal wetlands and demonstrated the field sampling protocols.

Citizen scientists used google maps on their smart phones to find sampling points over a 40,000 m2 grid covering mangroves (grey and river) and salt marshes (i.e., succulents, marine grass, rushes).

On each sampling point, participants set 100 m2 plots and quadrants where they surveyed the vegetation by identifying species, measuring tree heights, canopy widths, counting aerial roots, and looking for crab holes. Participants also collected soil cores that will be analysed for carbon content and particle size.

Fieldwork was extremely successful and efficient, despite the late start of the thursday team (due to a truck on fire blocking the access road) and the challenge of sampling some of points (included >20 trees with weird canopies and many stems or >200 mangrove seedlings). All together, participants sampled 20 points of the grid and took 40 soil cores!

At the end of the day, Dr Maria Garcia (Earthwatch) led a discussion on how participants could reduce their carbon footprint at home and work.

Many thanks to all our new members of the #BlueCarbonArmy who became Blue Carbon scientists for a day !!

Photos from Sept 26

Photos from Sept 27

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    • 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 Christina Birnbaum
      • Dr Martino Malerba
      • Dr Tiffany Sih
      • Dr Taryn Laubenstein
      • Dr Christina Asanopoulos
      • Ashley Whitt
      • Katy Limpert
      • Holger Jänes
      • Giuditta Bonetti
      • Jaya Kelvin
      • Charlie Townsin
      • Sarah Watson
      • Alejandro Navarro
      • Abbi Scott
      • Erlania
      • Yi Mei Tan
      • Oli Dalby
      • Interns and Volunteers
      • Alumni
  • Research
    • Wetland Carbon
      • Blue Carbon
        • Queensland Blue
        • Victoria’s Blue Carbon
        • Blue Carbon Management
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        • Farm dams
        • Teal Wetlands for Carbon Offsetting
        • Victoria’s Teal Carbon
      • TeaComposition H2O
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Wetland Restoration
      • Kelp & Segrass restoration
      • Maximising Teal Carbon capture
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      • HSBC citizen science
    • Marine Biosecurity
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