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The CLLMM Research Centre’s Climate Adaptation project has been extended, with a new project launched to help predict how Coorong habitats and phytoplankton communities will respond to climate change. Phytoplankton are microscopic, free-floating aquatic organisms that absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. Although tiny, they are a key part of the Coorong’s food […]

Associate Professor Alice Jones (Adelaide University) and her team have been out in the field monitoring changes in tidal wetlands and installing new equipment (SETs) to expand their scope.  SETs or surface elevation tables can be used to track the health of tidal ecosystems and coastlines in the face of climate change and rising sea levels. […]

We were delighted to host more than 50 school kids at the Centre to celebrate National Water Week (19-25 October). This year’s theme was ‘Water connects everthing’ and children learnt about different types of fish and their relationship to water in the region.  Aquatic ecologist Dr Connor Gervais (SARDI) led the group in a ‘build […]

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 […]