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    591 results for "seagrass":

    • Monitoring Activities to Track Changing Habitats on Barrier Island
      ...sateague Island to track changing habitats. Monitoring activities - which are habitat specific - include water quality, seagrass area, salt marsh nekton survey, surface elevation table, plover nests and fledgling success, upland elevation change, s...
    • Great Barrier Reef Report Card Regional Summaries - 2009 Baseline
      ...g the report card results for land practices, catchment indicators and loads, and the marine parameters; water quality, seagrass, and corals. It also describes positive actions in the regions to improve ecosystem health. For additional details on t...
    • Australian cities and waterways: Sydney and Sydney Harbour
      ... capital of New South Wales and hosted the 2000 Summer Olympic Games . The water in the harbor is amazingly clear, with seagrasses, kelp ( Ecklonia ) and other macroalgae visible from the shoreline. The juxtaposition of a major city with clear wate...
    • Queenscliff, Bellarine peninsula and Victoria embayments
      ...en roof and slanting windows to obtain winter solar heat but to avoid summer heat. The location on Swan Bay overlooking seagrass meadows with wading birds and raptors was stunning. The ocean beach on Bass Strait is a short walk across the narrow pe...
    • Brisbane 2011: Living with floods and dancing with dugongs
      ...e of the January floods was the increased turbidity of Moreton Bay. Dugongs, a conservation icon of Queensland, rely on seagrasses that grow in shallow waters of eastern Moreton Bay. Seagrass require adequate light to survive and turbid flood water...
    • Seven attributes of a vibrant science group
      ...d , we had a very active group of researchers, science communicators, graduate and undergraduate students investigating seagrasses, mangroves, corals, macroalgae, phytoplankton, benthic microalgae, bacteria and viruses. We called ourselves the Mari...
    • Marine Botany lives on
      ...d the University of Queensland. Eva's replacement at Healthy Waterways was a 'Marbot', Dr. James Udy who did his PhD on seagrasses. James previously worked at Seqwater , where he worked on freshwater issues associated with the reservoirs after a po...
    • 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...
    • 2010 Maryland Coastal Bays report card
      ...Bays health is defined as the progress of four water quality indicators (TN, TP, Chl a , DO) and two biotic indicators (seagrass, hard clams) toward scientifically derived ecological thresholds or goals. The six indicators are combined into one ove...
    • 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...
    • South East Queensland Floods 2011
      ... Moreton Bay creatures. This newsletter provides an overview of some of the initial flood impact assessment results for seagrasses, turtles and dugongs, and identifies the risks that need to be monitored. For further infomation, see the associated...
    • 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...
    • Seagrass meadow
      Seagrass meadow ... Generic seagrass meadow ... seagrass, generic, meadow, field ... Tracey Saxby...
    • 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...
    • Adapting to climate change
      ...on climate change effects in particular. The Verde Island Passage has highly diverse coral reefs, mangrove forests, and seagrass meadows, as well as millions of people who rely on the health and sustainability of the marine resources for their live...