You may have heard about our eco-hydrological investigation into the Moulting Lagoon and Aspley Marshes Ramsar sites on the east coast of Tasmania (read more about the project here) – an important project we are delivering in partnership with NRM South and the Australian Government.As...
Justine and I recently undertook a trip to Long Point, adjacent to Moulting Lagoon on the east coast of Tasmania. The aim of this trip was to download data from a network of water level and salinity loggers now installed across the site. It was...
Water level and salinity loggers installed at the Apsley Marshes Ramsar Site on Tasmania's east coast, have now been out in the field collecting data for four months. Loggers were downloaded on 11-12th August and monitoring sites surveyed (measuring their precise location and elevation) to...
NGT, in partnership with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day at Long Point and The Grange properties, which border Moulting Lagoon, on Tuesday 31st May 2022. The field day provided an opportunity for people who recently attended the NGT wetland restoration workshop...
After much discussion, planning and preparation, the second week of April was ear-marked for the exciting task of deploying water level and salinity loggers across the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site. Luckily, the weather was fine and despite some recent rain, the tracks into the main...
NGT hosted our inaugural Tasmanian wetland restoration workshop on Wednesday 4th May 2022, supported by NRM South, with funding provided via the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. The workshop was attended by thirty-four people, including five NGT staff, and representatives from Tasmanian NRM organisations, the...
Ecological assessment and monitoring continues at Long Point, Moulting Lagoon. During two hot and windy trips to Long Point in November and December 2021, Bec and Justine, together with John Aalders (University of Tasmania), undertook vegetation surveys at established transects across Long Point. John’s work...
In late October we undertook a reconnaissance trip to explore the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site, located immediately adjacent to the northern end of Moulting Lagoon. The east coast of Tasmania has been experiencing an unusual number of east coast lows this spring, which together with...
All monitoring sites have now been established on our initial priority properties, Long Point and The Grange, as part of the broader "Improving the ecological character of Moulting Lagoon and Apsley Marshes Ramsar Sites" project (see previous post here). Water level loggers were deployed in...
After our previous update back in May, NGT’s work on the east coast of Tassie continues...
