Fieldwork in Vanuatu (Dec 2018)
Christina and Wayne just returned from Vanuatu.
With the support of The Ocean Foundation and in collaboration with Dr. Krishna Kotra (The University of the South Pacific, USP), we set-up USP’s ocean acidification (OA) laboratory and helped deploy Vanuatu’s first OA monitoring system.
About 30 USP students, technicians and members of the community contributed to the project.
The team shows their enthusiasm by spelling out “OA”!
The instruments are deployed in Erakor Lagoon, using instruments Krishna received through the “GOA in a box” programme.
USP students helping with deployment.
Another beautiful day at the beach.
The instruments were deployed on an anchor built by USP technicians using a repurposed cabinet drawer. Here, you can see Wayne’s newest sensor (blue box), which he deployed alongside the iSAMI pH sensor (black cylinder) from the GOA-ON kit.
Wayne Dillon deploys his sensor in Erakor Lagoon, Vanuatu
Thank you to The University of the South Pacific, The Ocean Foundation, GOA-ON, Dr. Krishna Kotra, and all of students, technicians and community members who contributed to this project.
Chris Cornwall’s visit (Nov 2018)
Chris Cornwall, an ecophysiologist and Rutherford Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, visited our lab this week. We spent the week testing Wayne and Anna’s new seawater sensors with Chris’s favourite coralline algae.
Chris is pretty excited to be in Dunedin – it is the first time he’s had this much fun with chemistry!
