Dr Jennifer Lavers recently gave a presentation about her research on plastic pollution on remote islands at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery as part of National Science Week.
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Adrift Lab took part in a beach clean up event at the Bay of Fire on Tasmania’s east coast. The community-organised event saw over eighty participants collect, count, and sort over 1000 items of marine debris from ~20km of remote beach inside Mt William National Park.
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Adrift Lab has published a new paper on the sublethal impacts of plastic ingestion on marine birds. The paper follows from Peter Puskic’s recent study on the sublethal impacts of plastic ingestion on flesh-footed and short-tailed shearwaters.
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ABC Northern Tasmania published an article covering one of Adrift Lab’s bolus processing workshops with students from the University of Tasmania’s Children’s University program.
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Peter Puskic has been awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment for his project “Uncovering the Unseen: The Sub-Lethal Impacts of Plastic Ingestion on Shearwaters.”
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Adrift Lab is accepting applications for a new PhD project titled “Understanding sudden shifts in social norms and global tipping points in community attitudes”.
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Megan Grant has been awarded a travel grant by Birdlife Northern New South Wales to cover travel costs to Lord Howe Island for 2020 and 2021.
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Peter Puskic, Megan Grant, and Catarina Serra Goncalves joined the Now That’s What I Call Science! Program on Hobart’s Edge Radio. Niamh and Anna discussed plastic pollution, the growing public understanding of how expansive the global plastic pollution problem is, and what individuals and communities can do to make a positive change.
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A new intern has joined Adrift Lab from Cornell University in New York. Anne Bartlett is studying a Bachelor of Science, and is joining Adrift Lab for four weeks as part of an exchange program.
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Megan Grant will be presenting on April 11th at 8:30am (UTC 0). She will present findings from her Honours project which investigated the use of anthropogenic marine debris in the nests of Brown Boobies (Sula leucogaster).
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Dr Jennifer Lavers has just returned from filming Blue Planet Live on Heron Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef. The four episodes aired live on BBC One during 26-31 March 2019 and discussed threats to the ocean, including coral bleaching, declining seabird populations, and increasing plastic pollution.
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Peter Puskic and Catarina Serra Goncalves sat on a Q&A panel with Trish Haeusler of Plastic Free Launceston and Launceston Councillor Andrea Dawkins following a screening of Blue The Film last Thursday night.
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Adrift Lab collaborated with RMIT and citizen scientists to collect samples from Moulting Lagoon to analyse as indicators of pollution by PFAS. Moulting Lagoon is an important Ramsar Wetland site, and is home to many species which can be affected by anthropogenic debris and pollution.
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In early March, members of Adrift Lab attended a Clean Up Australia Day event at Launceston’s Royal Park. The event received criticism online, with commenters claiming that there was no substantial amount of rubbish in Royal Park.
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Three Adrift Lab papers have been referenced in the IUCN Proceedings of the conference on island invasives 2017.
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I’m Lillian and I’m preparing to undertake my honours with Adrift Lab beginning July 2019. My research will involve analysing Pacific Gull boluses (regurgitated pellets) for plastic and other anthropogenic debris, building on existing data by recent Adrift Lab graduate, Bonnie Ferguson.
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Last week members of Adrift Lab braved the early hours of the morning once again to participate in a bird banding trip. As discussed in our last article on bird banding, the aim of the process is to build long-term data sets that allows for meaningful analysis.
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Dr Jennifer Lavers joined Alicia Amerson on the Projects for Wildlife Podcast to talk about her research, and how people can get closer to living zero waste lives.
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Peter Puskic joined Helen Shield on ABC Radio Hobart’s ‘Your Afternoon’ show to discuss his research and his research accolades.
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Susie Philpot’s first paper has been accepted by Environmental Science and Pollution Research. The paper details the bioaccumulation of deleterious trace elements in seven petrel species. Susie’s research uses these species as bio-indicators of the health of the ecosystems in which they dwell.
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