I have been doing a bit of writing for the Australian Institute of Marine Science and came across this story… A valuable seismometer buoy, deployed three years ago in an ocean trench, more than five kilometres deep, north of New Zealand, has been found washed up on a North Queensland beach. Seismometers measure the movement [...]
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Lost Beach B(u)oy Found in North Queensland
September 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · News
Tags: Australian Institute of Marine Science·buoy·seismometer
Marine Parks: locking in the future
April 28th, 2010 · 9 Comments · News
This week two of the nation’s leading fish scientists, Professor David Booth and Dr Will Figueira, representing the Australian Marine Sciences Association, gave evidence to the NSW Parliament on marine parks…here is an edited extract of their submission. Despite the claims by many critics of marine parks, there is at this point, overwhelming evidence that [...]
Kangaroos swept away, dams overwhelmed, coastal lakes filled
February 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · News
For over a year the NSW south coast has slowly cracked and dried. A little over a week ago a neighbour and his friends tried to save native fish as they struggled to survive in a coastal lagoon that had gone so rank everything living in it was starting to die. A few days later [...]
Ancient koalas had the pick of not-so-tough nosh
December 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News
By James Woodford SCIENTISTS have gained a glimpse into how the koala, one of the nation’s most loved creatures, may have acted tens of millions of years ago. We may never know exactly how an ancient koala, living 24 million years ago in a since vanished rainforest, differed from its modern counterparts. But a [...]
BARNEY AND NICKY’S NEVER-ENDING CARBON PARTY
November 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · News, Real Dirt Fast
This week we had the spectacle of climate-denier-politicians Barney Joyce and Nicky Minchin (Nobel prize-winning scientists and philosophers that they aren’t) telling us everyone else with a doctorate and a brain is wrong and that they are right. Humans have nothing to do with climate change, they say. We actually don’t need to worry, our [...]
TURNING TURTLE: FROM SYDNEY TO THE DEEP BLUE SEA
November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News
Exclusive footage of green turtle being released off Lord Howe Island by marine parks ranger, Sallyann Gudge After months in the care of humans, three precious green sea turtles are back in the hands of chance. The three young reptiles were born last summer somewhere on an unknown beach in Queensland and were rescued, off [...]
Tags: climate change·lord howe island·turtles·wildlife rehabilitation
PARADISE V. VERMIN: LORD HOWE’S WAR ON RATS
October 31st, 2009 · 7 Comments · News
Photos and Story by JAMES WOODFORD Entire populations of some of Lord Howe Island’s unique wildlife are to be herded and brought into captivity for their safety. Cattle and chickens will be slaughtered or sent away. Even though the threat is negligible, dogs will be muzzled and children brought close. Then for 100 days a [...]
Tags: ferals·lord howe island·rats·wildlife
Charlie (Gudgeon) and the Great Glass Elevator
August 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments · News
By JAMES WOODFORD Where do fish look when they are locked in an elevator together? It is a question that will remain a mystery for a little longer, says the Sydney Catchment Authority’s senior environmental manager, Tony Paull. Even so, elevator etiquette was a crucial consideration for the state’s first ‘fish lift’ which was officially [...]
Mystery of the Montague Island ‘Mouse’
June 22nd, 2009 · 10 Comments · News
Pictures and Story by JAMES WOODFORD Additional pictures at Stuart Cohen’s Flickr site and at Rick Stevens’ Flickr site It is the mystery of the Montague Island “mouse” that shouldn’t be there. The eighty-hectare nature reserve, nine kilometres off the NSW South Coast town of Narooma has suffered a feral mouse plague that has lasted [...]
Our Copenhagen Correspondent….
March 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News
Dr Alistair Paterson is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Western Australia and in 2009 is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Copenhagen….Over the next few months as the world counts down to a crtical international climate change conference Real Dirt is hoping to run occasional news from Alistair. The latest conference [...]
Tags: climate change·copenhagen
