Flow-MER is the @theCEWH's on-ground Monitoring, Evaluation and Research program, jointly led by our top scientists, water managers and communities.
Murray Darling Basin
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Highlight photos from the 'Down The Track' local youth program in the Lachlan region.
This program hosts multiple camps and education days, encouraging school kids to learn about ecological surveying and outdoor education.
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📸 Photo highlights from when students from the Greater Shepparton Secondary College joined scientists from the Lower Goulburn Flow-MER project on the banks of the Goulburn River to learn more about environmental flows.
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Join Fish Ecologist Wayne Koster as he shares what eight years of monitoring in the Goulburn River has taught us about the native fish in the system, and how we can manage flows to increase their numbers.
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Have you seen our new Water Quality and Food Webs Theme page?
The revised page brings together 7 years of evaluation at the Basin-scale and the latest in food web research.
A new resource you can keep coming back to for more: bit.ly/3ODnKZj
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The Australasian bittern, an iconic waterbird, is endangered, with only an estimated 1300 individuals remaining.
Learn how water for the environment is being used to support the breeding of these bitterns in the Murrumbidgee.
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Community member John Pettigrew shares his views on the importance of the Goulburn River to the community and how, longer term, reconnecting the river with the floodplains will be key to having healthy and abundant aquatic life. 🌱🐟
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The Flow-MER program is excited to launch its revamped Food Webs & Water Quality Theme page! You’ll find the Basin-scale evaluation for food webs from 2014-21, including key findings and insights for water managers.
Check out the new page here: bit.ly/3ODnKZj
Explore the intersection of art and science through Vicki Luke's 'Gilgai - echo of an ideal world'.
Much like these rich wetland systems, the longer you view Vicki’s artworks, the more things become apparent.
View here: ow.ly/3ThY50LiJF1
The Lower Murray research team is set up at the Riverland Field Day in Barmera, waiting for the community to drop by and chat about fish sampling techniques, including electrofishing.
Please come, say g'day and learn about different electrofishers, when and how they are used.
Field days are in full force now that we can get out and about within our communities again.
Here are some photo highlights from a recent field day by the banks of the Edward/Kolety River in NSW. 📷
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ALT Ebony Mullin (left) and Kate Reid (right) from the CEWO chat with Traditional Owner Jeanette Crew on the banks of the Edward/Kolety River. Photo credit: Margrit Beemster.
ALT A Smoking Ceremony followed the Welcome to Country. Photo credit: Margrit Beemster.
ALT Michael Clark, and his son using a microscope to have a closer look at fish larvae with Dr Nicole McCasker. Photo credit: Margrit Beemster.
ALT Attendee Trevor Clark (left) from Hartwood, who is also chair of the Yanco Creek and Tributaries Advisory Council (YACTAC), with Dr Jason Thiem, from NSW DPI Fisheries. Photo credit: Margrit Beemster.
In the Gwydir Wetlands, frog breeding activity was captured via acoustic recorders and analysed using a spectrogram.
The spectrogram shows variability in chorusing behaviours across species.
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Some drone footage to capture a great weekend of getting out on Wiradjuri Country and learning about the environment!
A definite highlight was flying the drone - a newer technique used to measure vegetation condition.
Over the past 10 years, water for the environment has been used to increase flow in the Lower Murray River by nearly 50%!
This increase has brought life back to the river.
Learn more: flow-mer.org.au/selected-are…
We are super excited to share this interactive showcase of the Flow-MER Program's latest science and research on managing water for the environment!💧
flow-mer.org.au/research/
Parts of the Lower River Murray are now like long skinny lakes rather than the free-flowing river it used to be. This means that our native fish face many challenges.🐟
Fortunately, there are people working together to reverse these problems.
Full video:
flow-mer.org.au/selected-are…
This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, we're excited to share out first Flow-MER Fridays Webinar with @HMMcGinness, on spatial and temporal scales of waterbird movements and habitat use. Some amazing insights here from our Biodiversity team 🙌 youtube.com/watch?v=uqr1byRG…
We monitor floodplain and wetland plants at 13 sites across the lower Lachlan catchment in spring and autumn to understand how the plants have responded to the use of Commonwealth environmental water. Pictured below is a River red gum seedling after flooding in the river system.
