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  • Monitoring mangroves to measure success: highlights from a #ReGenOurCoasts citizen science day

    Citizen Science,#ReGenOurCoasts,News / March 29, 2023

  • Growing Outreach and Engagement to #ReGenOurCoasts

    Citizen Science,#ReGenOurCoasts,News / February 28, 2023

  • Protecting and Restoring an Urban Wetland: Truganina Wetlands Citizen Science Workshops

    News,Citizen Science / January 30, 2023

  • Adding seaweed to the menu! Unlocking the power of seaweed – a potential $million Gippsland industry

    News / September 21, 2022

  • BCL hosts Lunch & Learn session to involve Beach Energy employees in conversations about coastal wetland restoration

    News,#ReGenOurCoasts / September 9, 2022

  • Quantifying Seychelles mangrove forests’ blue carbon stocks for the first time

    News / August 15, 2022

  • Invasive Manoeuvres: Citizen scientists assist with ongoing monitoring of Point Lillias, a threatened coastal grassland ecosystem with significant cultural heritage

    News,Citizen Science,VicWetlandRehab / July 28, 2022

  • Developing Seychelles’ Blue Carbon Roadmap to reach net zero

    News / June 23, 2022

  • Deakin continues HSBC partnership with funding for new project

    HSBC,News,QLDBlue / May 12, 2022

  • Citizen scientists explore the carbon gains from coastal rehabilitation

    Citizen Science,GeelongPort,News / May 12, 2022

  • Training Seychellois to monitor their blue carbon future

    News,Fieldwork / April 20, 2022

  • The #BlueCarbonArmy welcomes GeelongPort staff

    Citizen Science,GeelongPort,News / April 14, 2022

  • BCL and GeelongPort join forces to build a more sustainable future

    GeelongPort,News / March 3, 2022

  • Citizen Science Workshop: Gippsland Wetland Restoration

    Citizen Science,News / January 17, 2022

  • Finalist 2021 AFR Higher Education Award for Emerging Leadership

    News / December 16, 2021

  • Blue Carbon in Hobsons Bay City Council

    News / November 2, 2021

  • Premier’s Sustainability Awards Finalist

    News,VicWetlandRehab / October 25, 2021

  • New Grant: Citizen Science and Microplastics

    Grant,News / September 7, 2021

  • Finalist 2021 SERA Award for Ecological Restoration Excellence

    News,VicWetlandRehab / September 2, 2021

  • BCL Partners with the Intrepid Foundation

    Grant,News,VicWetlandRehab / August 30, 2021

  • New Grant: Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation Innovation Grant

    Grant,News,VicWetlandRehab / August 30, 2021

  • DECRA Fellowship

    Grant,News / August 25, 2021

  • New Grant: PPBF 2021- Protecting cultural heritage and restoring a threatened ecosystem at Point Lillias

    Citizen Science,Grant,News,VicWetlandRehab / August 8, 2021

  • New Grant: PPBF 2021- Restoration of an urban coastal wetland (Truganina Wetland) informed through citizen science research

    Citizen Science,Grant,News,VicWetlandRehab / August 1, 2021

  • New Grant: PPBF 2021- Saltmarsh restoration and monitoring utilising citizen scientists in Swan Bay

    Citizen Science,Grant,News,VicWetlandRehab / July 14, 2021

  • New Grant: Helen Macpherson Smith Trust

    Grant,News,VicWetlandRehab / July 9, 2021

  • Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2021

    News,VicWetlandRehab / July 6, 2021

  • Farm Dam Fieldwork

    Fieldwork,News / June 11, 2021

  • TeaComposition H2O: Reading tea leaves to save the planet

    News / May 27, 2021

  • Volunteer Spotlight: Savitri

    News / April 23, 2021

  • Blue Carbon in Seaweed? Notes from the Lab

    Labwork,News / April 9, 2021

  • Wetland citizen scientists rejoin and rejoice the final leg of the research project at Hobsons Bay

    News,Citizen Science / March 1, 2021

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  • Monitoring mangroves to measure success: highlights from a #ReGenOurCoasts citizen science day

    Regenerating Our Coasts is moving into an exciting phase – mangrove seeds planted into our trialRead more

  • Growing Outreach and Engagement to #ReGenOurCoasts

    We recently celebrated World Wetlands Day. This year the Convention on Wetlands wants to focus onRead more

  • Protecting and Restoring an Urban Wetland: Truganina Wetlands Citizen Science Workshops

    The Blue Carbon Lab recently helped run three citizen science workshops at Truganina Wetland, a 175-hectareRead more

  • Invasive Manoeuvres: Citizen scientists assist with ongoing monitoring of Point Lillias, a threatened coastal grassland ecosystem with significant cultural heritage

    Two different groups of citizen scientists, staff members from Intrepid Travel and students from Holmesglen TAFE,Read more

  • Citizen scientists explore the carbon gains from coastal rehabilitation

    The GeelongPort #BlueCarbonArmy visited former Avalon saltponds to survey the naturally-rehabilitated saltmarsh and measure the carbonRead more

  • Training Seychellois to monitor their blue carbon future

    More than 30 scientists from Seychelles participated in a blue carbon technical workshop aimed at demonstratingRead more

  • The #BlueCarbonArmy welcomes GeelongPort staff

    GeelongPort staff joined our BCL scientists in the field to sample carbon stocks from healthy andRead more

  • Gippsland farmers join the #BlueCarbonArmy wave

    Date: Jan 28, 2022 Participants: West Gippsland CMA, East Gippsland CMA, Field and Game, Wilandra Farms,Read more

  • Future generation #BlueCarbonArmy

    Date: Jan 27, 2022 Participants: Children and families from Gippsland’s Culture Connect Group Site: Hollands Landing,Read more

  • Citizen Science Workshop: Gippsland Wetland Restoration

    Are you keen to join a citizen science workshop on wetland restoration? Join us next Friday,Read more

  • New Grant: PPBF 2021- Protecting cultural heritage and restoring a threatened ecosystem at Point Lillias

    This project will build on the previous work achieved through the Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Program,Read more

  • New Grant: PPBF 2021- Restoration of an urban coastal wetland (Truganina Wetland) informed through citizen science research

    Truganina Swamp is a 175-ha wetland of Biodiversity Significance, providing critical habitat for threatened and protectedRead more

  • New Grant: PPBF 2021- Saltmarsh restoration and monitoring utilising citizen scientists in Swan Bay

    Historically natural coastal wetlands were converted to pastureland to maximize available farming area along Victoria’s coast.Read more

  • Farm Dam Fieldwork

    Farm dam fieldwork 🐮🤠 Only a few days before the onset of Melbourne lockdown, two intrepidRead more

  • Blue Carbon in Seaweed? Notes from the Lab

    It has not been until recently that seaweeds, also known as macroalgae, are getting greater considerationRead more

  • Wetland citizen scientists rejoin and rejoice the final leg of the research project at Hobsons Bay

    When Dr. Maria del Mar Palacios led Blue Carbon Lab teammates and volunteers to the startRead more

  • Remembering David Rhodes

    It is with great sadness the unexpected passing of David Rhodes (November 19, 1958 – DecemberRead more

  • Two ways of knowing natural temperate grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain

    Back in October 2020, Chase Aghan – Project Officer (Forest, Fire and Parks) for Wadawurrung TraditionalRead more

  • Seagrass restoration in Western Port

    Where has seagrass in Western Port been lost, and which of these areas are most suitableRead more

  • Port Phillip Bay reef health check completed!

    What is the current status of reef health in Port Phillip Bay? How many sea urchinsRead more

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      • Dr Maria M. Palacios
      • Dr Pawel Waryszak
      • Dr Melissa Wartman
      • Dr Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa
      • Dr Noyan Yilmaz
      • Dr Martino Malerba
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      • Floating wetlands
      • Revitalising Australia’s Freshwater Wetlands
    • Valuing Ecosystem Services
      • Mapping Ocean Wealth
      • Guide to Valuing Coastal Wetlands
    • 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
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