Dr John Pearman1, Dr Susie Wood, Dr Sean Waters, Dr Javier Atalah, Janet Adamson, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Lucy Thompson, Dr Marcus Vandergoes, Lakes380 team 1Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand Lakes provide key ecosystem services and are culturally significant. However, lake...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Geoff Grossel1 1Australian Government Department Of Agriculture, Water & The Environment, Canberra, Australia For the last decade the Department of Agriculture, Water & the Environment has been researching innovative molecular environmental DNA (eDNA) and point-of-care molecular testing technologies...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Lara Urban1 1University Of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand We used environmental DNA to monitor one of the last surviving populations of the critically endangered kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus). We established a barcoding protocol to identify the distribution of the...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Linda Armbrecht1, Prof. Leanne Armand2, Dr Phil O’Brien3, Prof Michael E. Weber4, Prof. Maureen Raymo5, Dr Victoria Peck6, Dr Trevor Williams7, IN2017-V01 On-board Scientific Party (H. Baker, A. Caburlotto, T. Connell, D. Cotterle, M. Duffy, S. Edwards, D. Evangelinos,...
- November 24, 2022
Dana Bergstrom1, Dr Laurence Clarke1, Catherine King1, Dr Anna MacDonald1, Dr Leonie Suter1 1Australian Antarctic Division, , Human activities in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic introduce biosecurity risks, and Antarctic species and ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to disturbance or...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Leonie Suter1, Ms Andrea Polanowski1, Dr Anna MacDonald1, Dr Bruce Deagle2 1Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia, 2CSIRO, Hobart, Australia Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a keystone species of the Southern Ocean, vastly abundant and an essential food source...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Leonie Suter1, Ms Andrea Polanowski1, Ms Georgia Nester3, Dr Anna MacDonald1, Dr Bruce Deagle2 1Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia, 2CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, 3Curtin University, Perth, Australia Monitoring biodiversity, particularly over longer time scales, can help us understand how...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Haylea Miller1, Ms Miwa Takahashi1, Dr Henry Hui2, Associate Professor Kathy Fuller2, Professor Simon Jarman3, Dr Olly Berry1 1Csiro, Perth, Australia, 2Translational Cancer Pathology Laboratory, UWA, Perth, Australia, 3University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Luana Lins Species identification is pivotal for biosecurity, biomonitoring, environmental studies and many other areas. However, both morphological and molecular identifications are highly specialised and time-consuming tasks. To minimize the time required for molecular species identification, I developed...
- November 24, 2022
Dr Steffan Howe1 1Parks Australia, Kingston, Australia At 3.3 million km2, Australia has one of the world’s largest representative networks of marine parks. Australian Marine Parks (AMPs) help conserve marine habitats and the marine species that live within and...
- November 24, 2022