Month: September 2020

Coastal, diving, Oceans and estuaries, turtles, Uncategorized

Long-distance sea turtle migration provides unique opportunity to combine and test exciting tracking techniques

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Long-distance sea turtle migration provides unique opportunity to combine and test exciting tracking techniques

Dr Ryan Pearson Read Time: 419 words about 3 minutes. A nesting loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) with barnacles growing on her head. Photo: Ryan Pearson. In February 2016, a female loggerhead sea turtle dubbed ‘Marloo’ had a satellite transmitter attached to her shell on a beach south of Exmouth, Western Australia by the Gnaraloo wilderness [...]

Climate change, Coastal, Conservation, Ecosystems, International, Our people, PhD, research, Uncategorized, Wetlands, womeninstem

Coastal freshwater wetlands: the forgotten (wet)lands

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Coastal freshwater wetlands: the forgotten (wet)lands

By PhD candidate Rebekah Grieger Read Time: 468 words about 4 minutes. Wetlands are important features in the coastal landscape, providing many important ecosystem services. Much of the research into coastal wetlands focuses on the salty ones – mangroves, saltmarsh, seagrass – but there are equally important wetlands just up-stream that are generally overlooked, coastal freshwater wetlands.  Our [...]