Prof Natalie Moltschaniwskyj from the University of Newcastle spent a week on the Sapphire Coast giving four community presentations about Redmap. Keen audience members now feel ready to brush up on their species identification and photography skills and then upload their own data to the interactive website. Read more here.
It' s not just marine life that are stressed by climate change! Research indicates people in remote areas will be more susceptible to tropical diseases, mental health issues and chronic health conditions due to climate change, writes ABC news. Read the article here.
Redmap is a fantastic citizen science project that's taking a giant nationwide leap from its starting point in Tasmania, writes the Narooma News. Read the article here.
If you are thinking of starting a citizen science program - and wondering how to make it successful - then you should join this live online seminar (aka "webinar") on July 18. It will be co-hosted by Redmap founder Dr Gretta Pecl and other successful Australian citizen science program leaders.
A new analysis of ocean data collected more than 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition provides further confirmation that human activities have warmed our planet over the past century, writes NASA about the joint University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and NASA project. Read the article here.
New research published in the science journal Nature has revealed the impacts of climate change on global fisheries. An analysis of fish catches and water temperatures show that ocean warming has already affected global fisheries in the past four decades, driving up the proportion of warm-water fish being caught. Read more here.
It looks like the gloomy octopus may be moving its home further south; followed by crimson banded wrasse and rock cale. Redmap has developed a ‘report card’ to assess and report potential shifts in the ranges of fish and marine species along the Tasmanian coast. And all using the observations collected by divers and fishers in Tasmania (where Redmap started 3 years ago before it launched nationally). Check out which fish may be …
A change and increase in camera technology has meant a lot more people can become "on the ground scientists", says Brooke Neindorf for ABC's Country Hour in SA. Read the full article and listen to the interview here.
"Whale sharks off Perth, irukandji jellyfish at Ningaloo Reef and humpback whales giving birth 2000km from their usual calving grounds have left biologists baffled as they investigate whether an ocean heatwave is to blame for marine life turning up in unexpected places," writes Michelle Wheeler in the West Australian. Read the full article here.
Australind teenager Cameron Hill got a big suprise pulling in a mud crab from the Collie River. Read Josh Zimmerman's article from the Bunbury Herald here.
