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South Africa’s False Bay was once known as a global hotspot for great white sharks. But within the span of a few years, ...
Lives and coastal communities in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida were changed forever on April 20, 2010, when the ...
This is one creative way of conducting research: eight sea lions from Australia have been equipped with cameras in order to help scientists uncover things that have never been documented before! Other ...
Because of course, whenever any animal is used for research or sampling data ... scientists can gain a deeper understanding of benthic environments and develop more effective conservation ...
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River ecosystems in the shadow of sand mining
As illegal mining alters the riverbeds and drains life from these once-thriving arteries, the need for sustainable management becomes urgent. To preserve rivers as living, life-giving entities, we ...
Benthic Ecology staff also provide invertebrate identification services, and environmental monitoring support such as turbidity monitoring, salinity and dissolved oxygen monitoring, collection and ...
The research revealed a significant decrease in the concentration of pollutants in beach soil, seabed sediments and near-bottom waters – an average of 50% since the accident ...
groundwater monitoring and surface water quality monitoring including benthic sampling and taxonomy to lowest practical level (self taught), as well as flood forecasting/warning. I am especially ...
Among the sampling sites, N_dts1 had the highest total number of algae ... The temporal variation in the species number of benthic macroalgae adapted to different temperatures at the M_mza site of the ...
In addition, many Puget Sound benthic invertebrates are harvested commercially and are important both economically and culturally. Our Marine Sediment Monitoring Team has studied Puget Sound sediments ...