Poona, Great Sandy Strait (Australia) : 28 February 2009

Well 2009 is here.  Hopefully our year will be just as interesting and exciting as the previous years.  We were lucky to have Carla Pacheco, a visiting marine biologist from Portugal, accompany us on our first monitoring event for the year at Poona.  It was also Carla's first time seagrass monitoring and she enjoyed the experience.  Text: Robyn Bailey

 

 

Urangan, Hervey Bay (Australia) : 28 February 2009

 

 

Suva, Viti Levu (Fiji) : 14 February 2009

VALENTINE’S DAY this year was a special one for twenty-four Grade 7 International School students after spending it on the sandy mud-flats at Nasese surveying the seagrass meadows. The survey kicked off just after 2 pm guided by four teachers. Despite the afternoon heat, it felt great to finally kick-start seagrass surveys in Fiji. The infective enthusiasm of the students really made the day enjoyable and time just whizzed by. Text: Posa Skelton, Fiji local coordinator.  To download report: Click Here

 

 

Shelley Beach, Townsville (Aust) : 09 February 2009

The second site (SB2) at Shelley Beach was monitored in February by Mike, Iony, Naomi and first timer Cameron. We were lucky enough to have the rain stay away for the afternoon but, unfortunately, with all the rain that we had previously, it meant that our site was not completely exposed on the low tide. It was a very enjoyable afternoon, thank you to those that participated. Text: Naomi Smith, Seagrass-Watch HQ

 

 

Pulau Semakau (Singapore) : 07 February 2009

A small happy team headed out yesterday to check out the vast seagrass meadows on Pulau Semakau. Although these meadows lie next to our landfill and near major petrochemical plants on Pulau Bukom, the shore is still very much alive! The meadows are vast and the team is spread out over more than a kilometre.

At Site 3, Shufen points out the sediments have disappeared as we can't even peg down the tape. So we wind it around the stake instead. We also notice lots of sponges have started growing in the monitoring site. Is the seagrass moving? Has the sediment base changed? This is why we need to monitor our meadows!

The Enhalus acoroides are blooming! The little white specks are the male flowers, while the female flowers are huge (relative to the male flowers) and have three ribbed petals that fall off after a day. Text: Team Seagrass-Singapore. TeamSeagrass Website Click here

 

 

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