Rachel Austin
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@Rachel_Austin_
Research Officer and underwater photographer who works at The University of Western Australia focusing on seagrass restoration
Seeds for Snapper 2024, Days 7&8 WE'VE CRACKED HALF A MILLION FRUIT COLLECTED 💪 Today we also saw the first of our seeds get dispersed - good luck to all 63 000 of them! 🌱
With Day 5 of the 2024 Seeds for Snapper season now complete we have passed the 300 000 fruit mark! 💪🌱 #posidonia #australis
Day 2 has yielded another 87 000 fruit thanks to our @ozfishunlimited volunteer divers! Soon these tanks will be full of seeds instead of fruit! #seagrass #restoration #posidonia
And we're off! The 2024 Seeds for Snapper season is officially underway with over 85 000 fruit collected on our first day thanks to the incredible volunteer divers from @ozfishunlimited
'If we look after Country, then Country will look after you' Our new paper describes a #partnership between western scientists and Aboriginal Traditional Custodians to improve #seagrassrestoration outcomes in #Gathaagudu (Shark Bay) doi.org/10.1016/j.ocec…
Let the show begin! #ISBW15!
Back in Australia, training and working with @CoralEMU @Rachel_Austin_ (Gary Kendrick’s lab) at UWA, Perth. Microsensors are now positioned inside the #seagrass leaf, measuring sulfide and oxygen over time. Going to be very interesting to see the final results. @seas_green
New PhD paper out in @NewPhyt!🎉 We unraveled different response mechanisms in leaf #metabolism of temperate & tropical #seagrasses🌱when exposed to extreme climatic events under #oceanwarming with indication of early warning potential.⏰ Read more here➡️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
Researchers from UWA have teamed up with indigenous Malgana Rangers and Malgana divers from Tidal Moon to embark on a ground-breaking seagrass restoration project in Shark Bay. Have a watch to learn more! bit.ly/3N39HLu
