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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 […]

Researchers for the CLLMM Research Centre are heading back to the beaches this week to monitor local pipi (Goolwa cockles or kuti in Ngarrindjeri) populations. Their targeted surveys (before, during and after the recreational harvest season) are providing insight into how pipi populations have changed along Goolwa Beach.  The Goolwa and Younghusband Peninsula beaches support […]

CLLMM Research Centre researchers have uncovered important new insights into the life of one of the region’s smallest threatened fish. For the first time, researchers from the Centre’s threatened fish conservation project, led by Sylvia Zukowski (Nature Glenelg Trust), have produced credible age estimates for the nationally Vulnerable southern pygmy perch (Nannoperca australis) using tiny […]