Some handy Links
http://www.frankston.vic.gov.au/Environment/Environmental_Publications/index.aspx
http://www.frankston.vic.gov.au/Environment/Groups_and_Places/index.aspx
Seabird Feather Bank Project
http://www.marineconservation.org.au/WhatWeDo.asp?active_page_id=812
The Australasian Seabird Group (ASG) in conjunction with State Museum institutions has launched a national program for the collection of seabird material for studies into seabird biology. The Bank will provide a long-term collection point of seabird feathers that will be available as vouchers for species occurrence, assessment of moult, tissue sampling for DNA (other molecular techniques), stable isotopes and hormone stress analysis. These studies can reveal environment conditions during the long seabird migration, when the feathers are grown. A long-term collection of material would importantly reveal changes over time for particular species.
Interested people are registered by the ASG to collect specimens from beach washed material and are given guidelines on how to prepare wings for lodgement with State Museum institutions. Currently the project has been activated in NSW and Victoria. For further details see the ASG websitewww.birdsaustralia.com.au/asg. If you are interested in participating you can contact Andre Chiaradia ([email protected]) for Victoria and Nicholas Carlile ([email protected]) for New South Wales. It is hoped that other States will be incorporated in the project over the next six months.
Coastal Weeds
http://go.unimelb.edu.au/r5o
This coastal weeds research is a multidisciplinary project run out of the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne. It aims to better understand what the impact coastal weeds are having on our beaches. We are interested in how animals interact with the weeds, how other plants are impacted, how people with different values respond and are impacted by the weeds as well as understanding the impact weeds have on the geomorphology of the beach.
http://www.frankston.vic.gov.au/Environment/Groups_and_Places/index.aspx
Seabird Feather Bank Project
http://www.marineconservation.org.au/WhatWeDo.asp?active_page_id=812
The Australasian Seabird Group (ASG) in conjunction with State Museum institutions has launched a national program for the collection of seabird material for studies into seabird biology. The Bank will provide a long-term collection point of seabird feathers that will be available as vouchers for species occurrence, assessment of moult, tissue sampling for DNA (other molecular techniques), stable isotopes and hormone stress analysis. These studies can reveal environment conditions during the long seabird migration, when the feathers are grown. A long-term collection of material would importantly reveal changes over time for particular species.
Interested people are registered by the ASG to collect specimens from beach washed material and are given guidelines on how to prepare wings for lodgement with State Museum institutions. Currently the project has been activated in NSW and Victoria. For further details see the ASG websitewww.birdsaustralia.com.au/asg. If you are interested in participating you can contact Andre Chiaradia ([email protected]) for Victoria and Nicholas Carlile ([email protected]) for New South Wales. It is hoped that other States will be incorporated in the project over the next six months.
Coastal Weeds
http://go.unimelb.edu.au/r5o
This coastal weeds research is a multidisciplinary project run out of the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne. It aims to better understand what the impact coastal weeds are having on our beaches. We are interested in how animals interact with the weeds, how other plants are impacted, how people with different values respond and are impacted by the weeds as well as understanding the impact weeds have on the geomorphology of the beach.
