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Adelaide University student Daisy Wangui Gitau recently spent a week at the Research Centre on an Environmental Industry Placement. Daisy is in the final semester of a Masters in Science and Environmental Conservation, and an earlier subject, Fire and Culture, led to her interest in First Nations participation in environmental management. “I want to focus […]

Over the last week, the Centre has released eight new research reports that outline findings and recommendations across a wide range of topics. Freshwater soaks  This project focused on understanding where we should expect to find low salinity soaks along the Younghusband Peninsula, developing a method to identify where they are from satellite imagery, and […]

Estuaries are bodies of water on the coast where freshwater from a river(s) meets and mixes with saltwater from the ocean. They are a unique and ever-changing blend of land, river and sea and play an important ecological role.  The River Murray’s estuaries were affected when 5 barrages were built in the 1930s to separate […]

The CLLMM Research Centre has been investigating which phytoplankton species live in all the different Coorong habitats, and how things like water level, salinity, nutrients and temperature might affect them. They’re using this information to help predict how climate change may impact the food web and the risk of harmful algal blooms.

A new report has just been released from the Muscles in the Mud project. This project looked at how, or even if, lokeri (Ngarrindjeri name) populations recovered after they disappeared during the Millennium Drought. Lokeri is a freshwater mussel, which are one of the most at-risk groups of animals in the world. Community drives research […]

H5N1 is often discussed as a wildlife-health issue, a biosecurity issue and potentially a human-health issue. But it is also a cultural issue. Here Geoff Reid, First Nations Engagement Lead and Flow-MER First Nations MER Lead, One Basin CRC, shares what H5N1 could mean for First Nations peoples and Countries across the Murray-Darling Basin. Birds […]