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    145 results for "seagrass":

    • Dugong Rock; Using iconic creatures in conservation
      ...ey remain globally significant. A conservation icon in northern Australia is the dugong , a marine mammal that feeds on seagrass. Several years ago, Dr. Peter Oliver wrote a song called "Dugong Rock". One of the reasons that Peter chose a dugong fo...
    • Developing a Swan River report card
      ...k swans and has dolphins that regularly swim up to the foreshore of the central business district of Perth. It supports seagrasses (black swan food), prawns and fish, but has some severe water quality problems. For example, the dissolved oxygen lev...
    • Swanlands: Western Australia estuaries
      ...ics like Chari Pattiaratchi 's, and the wonderful photographs like Marion Cambridge 's historical and recent underwater seagrass photos. Lyn Beazley used paintings and beautiful photographs to illustrate the history and science of the Swan River. A...
    • One Mile Harbour, Moreton Bay
      ...Aboriginal middens with gum trees standing high A small clump of mangroves standing firmly on the shore Dark patches of seagrass underneath clear water Light patches where dugong come to feast some more The ever-changing tide flats, half water and...
    • Moreton Bay Research Station
      ...ook an hour to get from the university to Cleveland, and then another hour to drive the boat across the bay to the vast seagrass meadows on the Amity, Moreton and Wanga Wallen Banks, half the day was used up commuting. By being based on Stradbroke...
    • Flood newsletter on seagrasses, turtles and dugongs
      Flood newsletter on seagrasses, turtles and dugongs ... This newsletter was interesting to assemble, as it involved talking with lots of active scie...
    • Sea turtles, dugong and a major city skyline
      ...s large populations of green sea turtles ( Chelonia mydas ) and dugong ( Dugong dugon ). The turtles and dugong feed on seagrasses growing on the shallow sand banks of Eastern Moreton Bay. These shallow sand banks are flushed with clean ocean water...
    • Encountering Former Students
      ...is student Mitch Lyons. Chris and Mitch, who are part of Professor Stuart Phinn's remote sensing group, had worked up a seagrass risk map for Moreton Bay, based on light attenuation from the flood plume, bathymetry and knowledge of seagrass light r...
    • International WaterCentre field trip to North Stradbroke Island
      ...rse, a field trip to North Stradbroke Island is included. I attended two of the three days, and led a field trip to the seagrass beds in One Mile Harbor, near the town of Dunwich. The Moreton Bay Research Station in Dunwich was used in the course....
    • Two Guys and a Tinny: Conducting estuarine assessments
      ... water, for example, that comprised each estuary. The biologists wanted maps of habitats, like mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass, soft bottom, etc. which often corresponded with the geological facies maps. The chemists wanted a longitudinal transec...
    • More Randy Alberte memories
      ...ently. I think that he would have appreciated these enduring connections. Randy Alberte snorkeling over Bill Dennison's seagrass research site A major factor in my decision to come to The University of Chicago was the cohort of Alberte graduate stu...
    • Moreton Bay seagrasses after the flood
      Moreton Bay seagrasses after the flood ... Queensland Parks and Wildlife rangers conduct regular surveys of seagrasses and Lyngbya majuscula (a cyanobacterium that has been blooming in Moreton Bay for over a decade). I was able to tag a...
    • Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards
      ...noff of sediments and nutrients from the watershed and from sewage treatment, the re-suspension of sediment and loss of seagrass. There are turtles and dugongs in the diagram. We also tracked the nutrients and the sewage with isotopes and concentra...
    • Remembering Randy Alberte
      ...gy). I told Randy that I was interested in pursuing a PhD following my Master's degree from the University of Alaska on seagrasses and he invited me to visit his research group at Barnes Laboratory, The University of Chicago. On that visit a few mo...
    • Great Barrier Reef report card workshop
      ...ption and effectiveness (paddock scale), catchment condition and loads (catchment scale), marine water quality, inshore seagrass and coral indicators (reef scale). The shorthand for the Paddock to Reef program is P2R. Grahame Byron from Queensland...
    • IAN in American Samoa
      ...pecies of fish, living in crystal clear waters that range from 82 up to 86 °F. In some of the more sandy areas, the seagrass Halophila (paddle weed) can be found, and both green sea turtles as well as hawksbill turtles can be occasionally found...
    • Launching Ricky Into Space
      ... took a photo from space of Bermuda, where we spent a good part of a summer at the Bermuda Biostation together studying seagrasses, corals and mangroves. Ricky was an excellent graduate student, and his ability to learn new techniques and approache...
    • Erasmus Mundus thesis defense in Faro, Portugal
      ... 50 m away and the inlet lapping at the hotel wall. Ria Formosa has large tides (up to 3 m) and extensive salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and supports an active aquaculture industry (mainly small, tasty clams, but also finfish). Historically, there...
    • 6th anniversary of the IAN symbol libraries
      ...hy Waterways campaign in SE Queensland. The first symbols were subtropical in nature, and there were lots of Australian seagrasses and mangroves as well as various Australian animals. When the Integration and Application Network was created in 2002...
    • Citizen Science Programs
      ...inventories through the National Park Service’s ‘Bio-Blitz’, low tide benthic assessments through the Seagrass Watch program, or bird surveys conducted during Audabon’s Christmas counts, just to name a few. These citizen sci...