Science in the City

After Thursday’s success, there was genuine excitement to begin processing the samples collected at Shelly Beach. Combining the new samples with those recently brought back from Green Island and the Low Isles, the DNA barcoding project now includes a fairly comprehensive collection of the sea grasses of the Northern Queensland coast.  But despite our enthusiasm, [...]

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After failing to retrieve useful samples of either Zostera or H. spinulosa on my trip to Magnetic Island, there was a flurry of discussion in the lab about where else these specimens may be collected locally.  Since the tides are on an unusually low cycle, GPS waypoints that normally are further out in the channel [...]

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