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23.01.2022 Just because you can’t see the water doesn’t mean it’s not there! Before the rain sets in and creek channels fill with water we use bores to sample groundwater and find stygofauna fauna that live in groundwater systems. This critter is a specialist groundwater crustacean from the family Bathynellidae.... #stygofauna #groundwater #bores #supervisingscientist #buildup #drycreek #tropics #seasonalstreams
20.01.2022 Be croc safe! Always remember to read the signs and be croc safe! No sampling this day #crocwise #northernterritory #crocodiles #supervisingscientist
18.01.2022 We're Flying High! Check out the Supervising Scientist’s new Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) drone that is changing the way we collect data to measure ecosystem restoration. This drone was custom built in Australia to meet our mission requirements and tough environmental conditions in the Top End. Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Australian Association for Unmanned Systems ... #supervisingscientist #drones #dronesforgood #VTOL #kakadu Music: www.bensound.com
16.01.2022 Go to www.bruvnet.org/image-labelling-challenge to get started! Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Australian Citizen Science Association Group Microsoft Australian Society for Fish Biology #supervisingscientist #citizenscience #fishingcompetition #fish #artificialintelligence #deeplearning #kakadu #computerscience #bruvnet
16.01.2022 Freshwater mussels play a vital role in the ecosystem and are an important food source for the traditional owners of Kakadu National Park. Mussels are good indicators of environmental contamination which make them very useful for monitoring the nearby Ranger uranium mine. Do you know that one of the Supervising Scientist’s key roles is protecting people from the potential effects of uranium mining in the region? When Traditional Owners were wanting to know about the health of... a billabong, we sent out our mussel monitoring team! You can find out more information on our mussel monitoring program at www.environment.gov.au. #supervisingscientist #mussels #Kakadu #environmentalmonitoring #billabong #crocodile Kakadu National Park Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation Northern Land Council Music: www.bensound.com
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12.01.2022 DO go chasing waterfalls! Building a comprehensive DNA database of freshwater macroinvertebrate species in the Alligators Rivers Region is no easy challenge! Some species live in the splash zone of waterfalls, requiring extra effort to find the cryptic ones! Kakadu National Park Australian Freshwater Sciences Society... #macroinvertebrate #cryptic #supervisingscientist #kakadunationalpark #bugsampling #waterfall
09.01.2022 Brooke Batham, pictured here with her prize pack, is the winner of the Supervising Scientist’s BRUVNet fish labelling challenge having labelled a titanic 942 fish images. Brooke’s fantastic effort will assist SSB, and fisheries scientist’s across Australia, to train artificial intelligence programs to identify fish from video imagery. If you would also like to contribute to this great initiative go to www.bruvnet.org and get labelling!... Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment #supervisingscientist #citizenscience #bruvnet #fish #deeplearning #artificialintelligence #fishingcompetition #computerscience
09.01.2022 For more than 40 years, the Supervising Scientist Branch has been protecting the dual World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park and the surrounding Alligator Rivers Region from the effects of uranium mining. Equipped with world-class scientific expertise, we conduct environmental research and monitoring, and apply their outcomes to inform environmental regulation, management and restoration. We work closely with the local and wider community, including Gundjeihmi Aboriginal... Corporation and Northern Land Council to provide them with ongoing assurance that Kakadu National Park remains safe from the effects of uranium mining. To learn more about what we do, visit: bit.ly/2HQldw3 #supervisingscientist #kakadu #worldheritage Energy Resources of Australia Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Parks Australia
08.01.2022 Throwback Thursday This is one of the first images we took from our drones in 2014. It shows part of the Magela Floodplain in Kakadu National Park and if you look closely you can see waterbirds in flight. These early images demonstrated the usefulness of drones in monitoring ecosystems.... #dronesforgood #wetlands #kakadu #floodplain #UAV #supervisingscientist #drones #KakaduNationalPark Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Kakadu National Park The Drone Way Know Your Drone
07.01.2022 3D Print your Design Sometimes you can’t buy everything you need off the shelf! When we need that obscure piece to the puzzle the 3D printer gets turned on. We use 3D printed items for our drone and biological monitoring programs. For more information go to https://www.environment.gov.au/science/supervising-scientist ... #3d #3dprint #supervisingscientist
04.01.2022 Meet our favourite gudgeon! Mogurnda mogurnda, commonly known as the northern purple-spotted gudgeon, can be found lurking throughout freshwater billabongs and streams in Kakadu National Park. Here you can see him fanning eggs that he'll guard until they hatch. Kakadu National Park... #supervisingscientist #freshwaterfishofaustralia #gudgeon #Kakadu
03.01.2022 Local Knowledge Trains AI to Monitor Fish Our scientists recently took a trip to Jabiru Area School to chat all things fish and Artificial Intelligence (AI)! We are building a platform to automate identification of fish species from video taken in Kakadu billabongs, however, we need help labelling images of fish to train the AI. Who better to ask than those with local knowledge of the fish species? For more information go to www.bruvnet.org ... Kakadu National Park Microsoft #supervisingscientist #kakadu #worldheritage #fish #Jabiru #artificialintelligence #deeplearning #localknowledge #fishing #citizenscience
03.01.2022 Check out these midge larvae (Chironomidae) snuggling into their cases made from detritus and organic material found in the creek channel. Midge larvae are an important food source in aquatic systems, beginning their life in the water then emerging into flying adults you may see buzzing around your face on a hot day. #aquaticecology #supervisingscientist #bugslife #chironomidae #macroinvertebrate
01.01.2022 Want to hear more about how we’re developing rehabilitation standards for faunal communities? Check out the video below.
