Shelley Beach (Townsville, Australia): 21-22 January 2012

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Chek Jawa (Singapore): 08 January 2012

It's our first monitoring trip for 2012! And what a wet start we had! Despite the rainy weather, this team of enthusiastic volunteers soldiered on and got it done! So glad Siti is with us today to give a proper briefing to everyone about the monitoring process. We have a lot of first timers today so it's important to explain things properly. The rain falls even more heavily as we are nearing the end of our monitoring. And fortunately, it eased off soon after. Today, we also replaced all the stakes, which have been there since we first started monitoring five years ago! Seagrasses commonly seen at Chek Jawa include Halophila ovalis, Halodule sp., Halophila spinulosa and I was glad to see some small patches of the rare Halophila beccarii. After the monitoring, I had a quick look around and found many signs of what seems to be dugong feeding trails! Hurray! .....Click here to read more.

Singapore : 24 November - 22 December 2011

Tuas

22 December 2011

The last TeamSeagrass monitoring at Tuas and Sheryl is doing it alone! Well, it is that time of the year when lots of folks are clearing leave. Sheryl did a great job as usual with the monitoring. The seagrass patch is quite lush here! All Halophila ovalis. Sheryl points out that there seems to be growths of brown seaweeds among them. But this is probably normal for this time of the year, when there's lots of seaweed bloom on many of our shores with the flush of nutrients during the monsoon period.....Click here to read more.


	Pulau Semakau 26 November 2011

The weather was changeable, with sunshine and sprinkles, then wetter still. But this didn't stop this team of volunteers from checking up on the marvellous seagrass meadows of Pulau Semakau. As the tide fell, monitoring got easier. The water wasn't so deep or murky anymore. There's lots of Enhalus acoroides here, although the coverage is not very high, the blades are nice and long. While the trip may be over for most, for me, it's another massive round of gear wash up the following day. There sure is a lot to clean! Nearly half a kilometre of tape, and lots of bits and pieces. The cats at least, seem to have fun 'helping' me with the wash up!....Click here to read more.




	Cyrene Reef 24 November 2011

A small team arrive a little too early today, and the tide was still very high! But this didn't stop us from getting the monitoring done! Only a tiny sliver of sand bar was starting to show above the water! The seagrasses are rather sparse today. And the Enhalus acoroides are still short and chomped. But I didn't come across any bleaching or burnt seagrasses on my transect. The deep pool in the middle of Cyrene which used to be thick with Enhalus acoroides is still bare of these long seagrasses. It is so bare that the pool is blue in colour! Oh dear. There were however, other species of shorter seagrasses growing in this pool.....Click here to read more.