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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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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A chance discovery of one of the Murray-Darling Basin’s endangered fish - the Olive perchlet - has been made in the lower Lachlan. 🐟
In mid-2023, fish ecologist Dr Adam Kerezsy stumbled upon a healthy population of perchlet.
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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
Every now and then, art and science come together to create magic. ✨
This is what happened when artist Vicki Luke worked with scientists in the Murray-Darling Basin to share the story of Gilgai wetlands in her artwork: 'Gilgai – echo of an ideal world'.
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Catch up on our Annual Forum where the Flow-MER teams share the latest insights from monitoring water for the #environment.
Tour the Murray-Darling Basin and hear how this information is helping environmental water managers.
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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.
It's #NationalScienceWeek and we wanted to take the opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of Australian scientists to the world of knowledge, by revisiting this stellar example of world-leading science and research undertaken across the MDB flow-mer.org.au/research/
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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Head over to the Gwydir wetlands to meet some of the frogs which call this part of the world home - including the newly recorded Knife-footed frog, which has no webbing on its fingers and only partially webbed toes. 🐸
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We invite you to the Northern Basin to see the majestic Brolga proudly standing on the Western Floodplain at Toorale State Conservation Area. The Brolga is simply one of 57 different waterbird species recorded over the last eight years.
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Step onto the banks of the Edward/Kolety River and experience the recent field day where community members and agencies shared their knowledge of and experiences with the river.
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Our latest story talks about the role of Totems in conservation and spiritual connectivity to the land.
We share this story during NAIDOC Week as a celebration of the continued strengthening of connections with First Nations in the Flow-MER Program.
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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.
There is no better place to learn about the environment than being out on-Country!
The @UniCanberra staff have once again been out with Down The Track Youth Enterprises to teach the next gen of ecologists about the importance of environmental water.
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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…