Lakes380

The Our Lakes Our Future team at Cawthron + @VicUniWgtn are recruiting a #socialscience #phd to research #lake #restoration in #NewZealand! If you're interested in examining what interests, knowledge & institutions are shaping lake futures visit ourlakesourfuture.co.nz/phd-scholarshi…

We have a new PhD opportunity at #Cawthron Institute in partnership with @waikato studying biodiversity and foodwebs using #eDNA in #Aotearoa New Zealand lakes: cawthron.elmotalent.co.nz/careers/career… @SIL_limnology @eDNAcollab @GLEONetwork @aslo_org @SeDNASociety @eDNAScience @DNAquaNet

In partnership with @waikato a new PhD opportunity is available at #Cawthron looking at the diversity and food webs of lakes in #Aotearoa. For more details: cawthron.elmotalent.co.nz/careers/career… #phd #lakes #NewZealand #ecology #eDNA #foodwebs

Proud supervisor moment! My MSc student Caitlin presenting her research on cyanobacterial blooms through time at Whanganui lakes at the @2021Gsnz conference @MasseyUni today! Part of the @lakes380 project @gnsscience @Cawthron_NZ

The Lake Moawhitu virtual experience is live!⁠ Visit lakes380.com to start exploring.⁠ ⁠This virtual reality experience allows you to travel back and forth in time and experience Lake Moawhitu throughout the ages. #Ngāti Koata #D’UrvilleIsland #RangitotokiteTonga

💧🧬💧Learning from the past to protect and guide lake restoration in Aotearoa-New Zealand. 💧🧬💧 #ICYMI Dr. Susie Wood' webinar on the exciting @lakes380 project is now available online: ow.ly/Wt5Z50IXmXA #biodiversity #DNA #eDNA #metabarcoding #BIOSCAN

An insight from @BiessyLaura et al., into the functional potential of the surface sediment community in three NZ lakes. mbmg.pensoft.net/article/79265/ #metagenomics #lakes #ecology #NewZealand #lakes380 #microbes

The @lakes380 team have been looking at the distribution patterns of planktonic bacteria across New Zealand's lakes. Read about it in @FrontMicrobiol at doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.… #bacterioplankton #lakes #scicomm #bacteria #ecology #metabarcoding #science

Katie Brasell's new manuscript is out looking how sediment storeage affects the DNA yield and biological community and its implications for paleogenomic studies doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.6… via @MBMGjournal

We recently ran a sediment sample from Lake Paringa collected by @Cawthron_NZ and @gnsscience for the @lakes380 project, and found eDNA from kākāpō, little brown kiwi, and even South Island kōkako! The only catch is the sample dates from ~1800 #greyghost bit.ly/331Q6IW

Lake Marakapia is a small, shallow (1 m max. depth), dune lake inland from Long Beach on the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu/Wharekauri).⁠ Monitoring by @ECan shows it is in a mesotrophic (average) state with good clarity and low levels of algae. Video by @SchmaleLab #lakes380 #nzlakes

Happy New Year from the @lakes380 team. ⁠ ⁠ Stay tuned for new research and updates over the next year. ⁠ ⁠ #lakes380 #Cawthron #GNS #ScientistsOfTwitter #ScienceLife #nzlakes #Sediment #paleolimnology #aotearoa #freshwaterscience #welovescience⁠

Lake Rotoeka is a small shallow (only 0.6 m deep) tannin stained peat lake. The distinctive red to coffee water colour is largely from the Dracophyllum (kerosene plant) vegetation. Video by @SchmaleLab #lakes380 #freshwaterscience

Te Wapu is a coastal dune peat lake with tannin-stained waters. Seawater sometimes enters the lake, making it partly saline.⁠ The lake is in a supertrophic (very poor) state with high nutrients. The @SchmaleLab video shows a algal bloom on the shores.⁠ #lakes380 #freshwater

Lake Huro, a large, shallow dune lake, is the first in the virtual tour of some of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu/Wharekauri) lakes.⁠ Monitoring by @ECan show the lake has poor although slowly improving water quality. Video by @SchmaleLab ⁠#lakes380 #nzlakes #freshwaterscience

New paper in @STOTEN_journal creating a Sediment Bacterial Trophic Index (SBTI) to monitor the trophic status of lakes on a national scale sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #lakehealth #trophicstate #biomonitoring #sedimentbacteria #lakes #NewZealand

Here's @EthanYackulic giving his mini-talk on hyperspectral inferred chloropigment calibrations for the @lakes380 project. Check out the full talk for details tinyurl.com/yackulic-agu21 @nau_ses

At #AGU21? Want to learn about paleolimnology from A LOT of New Zealand's Lakes? I'll be discussing some results from the @lakes380 project for 5 minutes today at 2:45 CST in room 225-227. The longer talk is available here tinyurl.com/mckay-agu21

The #lakes380⁠ team have developed a new environmental DNA-based method that can rapidly detect both longfin and shortfin tuna (NZ freshwater eels) in water and sediment samples. ⁠Check out the full article (doi.org/10.7717/peerj.…)⁠ #freshwaterscience⁠ #eels⁠ #eDNA⁠