Water quality and nutrient sources in Coffs Coast creeks
Congratulations to barefoot researcher Luke Andrews
Congratulations to barefoot researcher Luke Andrews for completing his Honours with First Class following assessment by international experts in the field. Luke’s honours revealed how land use change influences greenhouse gas emissions in freshwater creeks from the Coffs Harbour region. Here are some photos of Luke presenting his research in the NSW Coastal Conference in 2009 and doing filed work.
Luke Andrews 2020 Honours
Farewell to Xiaogang Chen our visiting PhD student from Shanghai' East China
We say farewell to Xiaogang Chen our visiting PhD student from Shanghai' East China Normal University who taught us so much about groundwater, mangroves, isotopes and effective team work! Xiaogang will be greatly missed! We wish him the best in the next stage of his career back in China, and look forward to continuing collaboration!
Great time had in Barcelona and Kristineberg!
Check out a few pictures of us working hard from 9 to 5, and playing hard from 5 to 9.
Presentations at the premier international geochemistry conference in Barcelona (Goldschmidt) and writing retreat in Sweden.
Praktan Wadnerkar: Submarine groundwater discharge and nutrient fluxes in a natural mangrove versus artificial canal estate
Kay Davis: 50 years of ecosystem calcification estimates: Evidence for recovery
Isaac Santos: Submarine groundwater discharge: a driver of buffer of ocean acidification?
Rogger Correa: Submarine groundwater discharge and associated nutrient and carbon inputs into Sydney Harbour, Australia
Stephen Conrad: Sediment and water quality across a freshwater estuarine continuum from a coastal horticultural catchment
Shane White: Large aquatic nitrous oxide emissions downstream of intensive horticulture following rain events
Xiaogang Chen: Karstic submarine groundwater discharge into the Mediterranean: Radon-based nutrient fluxes in an anchialine cave and a basin-wide upscaling.
International Connections
By Tristan McKenzie
As I've been sitting in the Sydney Airport for the last ten hours waiting for my horrendously delayed flight home to Honolulu to finally take off, I've had some time to reflect a bit about my stay in Australia and the connections I've made. While I came here to specifically work with one person, I've formed working relationships and connections with many. From graduate students working on research both similar and dissimilar to my own, to professors and researchers both at Southern Cross University as well as abroad - and these new connections will (most likely) lead to future collaborations.
Unlike most of the other LOREX students who are traveling as cohorts to their respective destinations abroad, I was the only student working in Coffs Harbour. This forced me to navigate a new environment and seek out new friendships on my own. I was fortunate to make a lot of really good friends in Coffs Harbour and I'm very thankful for them showing me around.
My time at the National Marine Science Centre has been very productive - I've completed much of the lab work and have even started writing up my results. In the next few weeks back in Hawaiʻi, I will complete the remaining lab analyses using instrumentation/techniques available at my home institution. During my last week in Australia, I finished up the Australia portion of my lab work, gave a talk about my research in Hawaiʻi and Sydney, and assisted some grad students with their fieldwork.
I am very thankful that I've had the opportunity for this experience - both to the ASLO LOREX (and NSF for funding LOREX!) program as well as Isaac for hosting (and making sure my stay was both productive and enjoyable). I look forward to future collaborations!
2019 Anton Hales Medal awarded to Professor Isaac Santos, Southern Cross University
Outstanding contributions to science have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science with 20 of Australia’s leading scientists receiving a 2019 honorific award.
PhD student Ashly McMahon
Congratulations to barefoot PhD student Ashly McMahon for completing his PhD titled “Ecosystem calcification and production in two Great Barrier Reef coral reefs: Methodological challenges and environmental drivers”. Lots of adventures along the way – we hope you enjoyed the journey!
SCU’s 2018 Excellence in Engagement Awards
The Barefoot Team just picked SCU’s 2018 Excellence in Engagement Awards for their work with water quality!
The Engaged Research award went to Prof. Isaac Santos, Mr Shane White, Mr Stephen Conrad, A./Prof. Christian Sanders “For community-driven water quality research to protect, rehabilitate and manage iconic streams, estuaries and the Solitary Islands Marine Park.”
Here is a link to a video featuring our community-star PhD student Shane White explaining this work.
NMSC Hosting new PhD student visitors!
It is a pleasure to host our new PhD student visitors!
Mithra-Christin Hajati comes from Nils Moosdorf’s lab at the ZMT Germany and will further develop her SGD modelling work.
Xiaogang Chen comes from Jinzhou Du’s lab at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research Shanghai, China. He will work on geochemical tracers and carbon cycling in mangroves.
We look forward to hanging out with them and learning about their work!
Great projects, great work, and great delivery!
Congrats to barefoot PhD student Kay Davis for winning the best presentation at SCU’s RISE Conference last week. Kay’s presentation was on “Short- and long-term drivers of coral reef ecosystem metabolism”.
And congrats to another barefoot PhD student James Tucker for the third place with his talk “Tracing the leachate plume of whale carcass decomposition in beach groundwater”.
Great projects, great work, and great delivery!