tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79692878839520481832024-03-13T10:44:31.025-07:00Tasmanian Environmental ConsultantsMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-64513067082524553252014-03-03T03:09:00.000-08:002014-03-03T03:09:01.510-08:002014 Cleanup Benefit Gig<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Come and join us Friday the 21st of March for an evening of good tunes and good vibes. The Dave Wilson Band and Lively Up will be cranking out the music with all door takings donated to the Cleanup fundraising efforts.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-61051266278986916012012-07-09T17:52:00.000-07:002012-07-09T17:52:32.533-07:00Rising plastic menace choking sealife<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="date">Monday, 9 July 2012</span> Stuart Gary</span><br />
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The amount of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean
has reached alarming levels, drastically impacting seabird populations,
according to a new study.
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Scientists at the <a href="http://www.ubc.ca/" target="_blank">University of British Columbia</a> looked at populations of Northern Fulmars, a bird species distributed widely in the north Atlantic and north Pacific. <br />
They found that more than 92 per cent of dead birds on beaches in
British Columbia, Canada, and the US states of Washington and Oregon,
had ingested significant quantities of plastic refuse.<br />
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<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/09/3540635.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/09/3540635.htm</a>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-24142408069318775782012-04-20T04:44:00.004-07:002012-04-20T04:54:24.466-07:00Prion Beach Monitoring<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_tkGUGwHsGVnhyTRpg2KKWMBPQaw8X2iFza7N9oevPF2khFIzwTfPlahaRC2rHOQ-u5ym4crmq4jyZuWHXsS38H-0aQ_-RNRJWHpJBJ4xxKHv66eWSjOGQ152hcIBk1TkbZY74TBnvA/s1600/Prion+Sites.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_tkGUGwHsGVnhyTRpg2KKWMBPQaw8X2iFza7N9oevPF2khFIzwTfPlahaRC2rHOQ-u5ym4crmq4jyZuWHXsS38H-0aQ_-RNRJWHpJBJ4xxKHv66eWSjOGQ152hcIBk1TkbZY74TBnvA/s400/Prion+Sites.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733448780747230034" border="0" /></a><br />Have just returned from two trips down to Prion Beach and New River Lagoon. Had an amazing time looking for old sand dunes to date. We managed to cover a fair bit of ground thanks to Phil Kelleys SS Ashtray a 12 foot Inflatable. Once on land we negotiated the 8 foot high stinging nettle thickets in the frontal dune swales and found some beautiful coastal rainforests.<br /><br />I have attached a rough field map to show the spots we visited (green stars) and erosion monitoring transects we put in (yellow).Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-27895027022022789502011-12-17T22:03:00.003-08:002012-03-12T16:11:14.684-07:00Soil work in PNG<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Tf1rnCLX_6dZgrocFv-EL5AgQ5id5hCF4WYdrzQRdUyDK9m5fwApSVUfI6QvioFvu1g_Gv6scoKDCF9b91EEhYXu3ym-sDT9XkltdxXvIyCGqZEX5Im6YJvuTmVPcnr0mNd_yCOeXhE/s1600/RIGO+Land+Facets.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Tf1rnCLX_6dZgrocFv-EL5AgQ5id5hCF4WYdrzQRdUyDK9m5fwApSVUfI6QvioFvu1g_Gv6scoKDCF9b91EEhYXu3ym-sDT9XkltdxXvIyCGqZEX5Im6YJvuTmVPcnr0mNd_yCOeXhE/s400/RIGO+Land+Facets.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719149908887790786" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Finally got the chance to get to PNG to look at the soils and agricultural areas I have been modelling for the past 6 months. Its a fantastic country and people were amongst the friendliest I have ever met on my travels. We managed to get to Owers Corner and check out the start of the Kakoda Track which would have to be some of the most rugged precipitous terrain I have ever seen in the tropics.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-13896668983619300632011-08-24T19:10:00.001-07:002012-03-12T16:28:35.002-07:003 Capes Track Mapping<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiny5iIgQ5dlTkV8O0l8xJlkk1rtvBuY1H1c1j52ZOgAmu7rvnPw5jK78mabpNBP_ulGgprXg29eWgoR-lA1dLf1Hk_gcbj3fNCyyDOS5MGEHAg26VJYhPmTAau4hjFSd6fiq-A5XE8NXM/s1600/Lidar_Screengrab.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiny5iIgQ5dlTkV8O0l8xJlkk1rtvBuY1H1c1j52ZOgAmu7rvnPw5jK78mabpNBP_ulGgprXg29eWgoR-lA1dLf1Hk_gcbj3fNCyyDOS5MGEHAg26VJYhPmTAau4hjFSd6fiq-A5XE8NXM/s400/Lidar_Screengrab.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719156509855491170" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have just spent the last month assessing the Geoheritage Values for the proposed Three Capes Track. Its been a treat being dropped by helicopter at any point along the track, bushwalking for 6 to 8 hours and then being picked up at the end of the day. The highlight however has been discovering 20 metre high longitudinal sand dunes on top of 300 metre high cliffs. These dunes also provide enough of a barrier to dam drainage lines and host semi permanent water as 40 metre long waterholes.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-37773839749542493682011-06-02T18:17:00.000-07:002011-06-02T18:19:49.480-07:00Cleanup 2011This years cleanup once again broke the Item record with the hardy team of 23 volunteers collecting over 18000 items. Check out the promo video produced by Patagonia's Johnny Abegg.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24303990?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" frameborder="0" height="225"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/24303990">South West Marine Debris Cleanup - Tasmania</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/johnnyabegg">Johnny Abegg Films</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-41348331707094573302011-01-17T03:00:00.000-08:002011-01-17T03:14:53.506-08:00Carton Beach Timeseries<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F117799831967061658693%2Falbumid%2F5563099942288002497%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCKSkkMydoomPyQE%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br /><br /><br />As promised here is the first of the timeseries aerial photography case studies for the Federal Department of Climate Changes Shorewave Project. The project is looking at what information on shoreline behaviour can be derived from historical aerial photography, historical climate information and modelled wave and fetch data. If you click on the slideshow it will open at a larger scale in Picasa Web Albums. Note the steep beach profile in the 1975 photo which was the last big 'La Nina' event. Hopefully we will get some more swells like that year.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-89366355535222322132010-11-26T20:55:00.000-08:002010-11-26T21:02:45.079-08:00Coastal Change Analysis<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqJkAaxqmWwRcb73VFMr2UfaOR1LYRztSe0lkR7lEQrddueaYBrX4uG4qZF0DYEr7Zv-a4DTnMBY3eBhe5lLJQ_9ltypzC21zDkhLEA96ILpjhTwfPxoziO-YFSWwHaFs8WsIRErOaSI/s1600/1966-2010.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqJkAaxqmWwRcb73VFMr2UfaOR1LYRztSe0lkR7lEQrddueaYBrX4uG4qZF0DYEr7Zv-a4DTnMBY3eBhe5lLJQ_9ltypzC21zDkhLEA96ILpjhTwfPxoziO-YFSWwHaFs8WsIRErOaSI/s320/1966-2010.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544090230500176962" border="0" /></a>5 mile beach retreat<br /></div><br /><br />Scored a great contract looking at coastal change through studying historical airphoto records. Have really early airphotos from late 1930's through to the present for a number of sights around Australia. Have finished a number of local Hobart beaches already including Sevenmile, Rokeby, Clifton and Carlton beaches which are quite mindblowing in their lack of houses in the 1940's. Will post some pictures when i get some time.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-36795101502541143122010-09-17T19:44:00.000-07:002010-09-17T19:47:45.179-07:00Back at workWell the time has come to re-enter the workforce after some serious baby time. I have been playing with some old dieline maps and converting them into georeferenced GIS coverages and making some timeseries airphoto maps for the SW beaches we visit on the rubbish cleanup.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969287883952048183.post-83078870743369772382010-04-14T05:44:00.000-07:002010-04-14T05:46:34.884-07:00Just back from the WildernessJust returned after 8 days in SW tassie picking up other peoples rubbish. Had a great trip with a cool bunch of people and picked up over 17000 pieces of rubbish. It feels good to walk down a pristine beach with not a piece of rubbish to be seen.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807266294184207089noreply@blogger.com0