EcoKnowledge in Mylor, South Australia | Consultation agency

EcoKnowledge

Locality: Mylor, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8388 5179

Address: PO Box 632 5153 Mylor, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.ecoknowledge.com.au

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25.01.2022 Hookina Creek in flood. Water DO logger also dyna-bolted to a rock just before the water rose. https://www.facebook.com/HawkerServo/videos/645533312775833?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo

23.01.2022 Low-flying aerial survey of the Heysen Range in the Flinders Ranges. Counting everything that moves. Following our team was another helicopter videoing the event. In our 2019 survey, the aircraft's position, roll, pitch, yaw, AGL are logged and together with digital terrain data, we can calculate a precise instantaneous viewing area. So we are now able to calculate density. There were no sighting poles when this was filmed few years back.

21.01.2022 Wilpena Creek breaks its banks. A day after we dyna-bolted a DO water logger to a rock for the Gudgeon project. https://www.facebook.com/146916502701362/posts/718062425586764?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo

18.01.2022 Our recently built sterile fruit fly dispensing system - with some minor upgrades. Thanks to Tuna City Aviation at Port Lincoln for letting us use their aircraft maintenance hanger. Will it help the fruit growing industry? We hope. This ‘fly or die’ dispensing machine may be able to hold >2.5 million sterile fruit fly. We will see.

18.01.2022 Duck survey of Victoria completed. But it’s been something out of a cold war spy movie getting staff back into SA under a home quarantine exemption, and before the midnight curfew lock-down. They literately walked over the border to an empty waiting car.

16.01.2022 Got home to Adelaide from the Gudgeon field trip dodging floods. Storms and rain have ripped across much of inland SA. Much joy for many on the land. But more would still be welcome. This photo was of an easy crossing. Further south we were the only car that drove the back way through the hills around Belton to dodge a deeper impassable floodway crossing South of Carrieton, which stranded many tourists. The Willocra Creek flood prevented a Quorn thoroughfare. Hawker accommodation now likely overflowing with tourists.

16.01.2022 The Kangaroo Island night drone surveys have commenced. These are flown at conventional human observer aerial survey altitudes but including two thermal cameras. Flights will be conducted over burnt and unburnt country, including the Flinders Chase National Park, an area south of the island and areas north of the island. Fire recovery will be slow on the Island. Some properties took a horrible hit. No time to turn on this fire hose.

14.01.2022 Yet another potential site north of Hawker for the translocation of Purple-spotted Gudgeons. We are assessing three sites. Acoustic monitors and water loggers will check for the presence of extant species and water quality respectively. Habitat assessments to follow.

13.01.2022 Just under 100 Purple-spotted Gudgeons sampled for DNA testing. This is important in determining their suitability for translocation as newly established insurance populations. Box traps proved to be the best method of capture.

12.01.2022 KI coast in ferry. None here.

11.01.2022 Duck survey of Victoria is well underway. Up to 10 wetlands per unit. Units numbered below. Utilizing a double-count methodology. 8 species of Duck. See https://www.gma.vic.gov.au//aerial-duck-survey-trial-to-en

09.01.2022 One Ecoknowledge team is currently in Victoria on the [annual] kangaroo survey of Victoria, staying clear of the Melbourne COVID bubble. Next month we conduct a Duck survey of under 1000 wetlands and dams in Victoria.

06.01.2022 Back to the Murray Sunset National Park in Victoria next week for the annual aerial survey of kangaroos on this park. We launch and land on SA airstrips and don’t land anywhere in Victoria. This avoids needing to quarantine according to SA Health, who have approved this approach. Thanks also to Parks Victoria for making it happen and approving this COVID work-around.

06.01.2022 With an Animal Ethics approval, a Science Permit, a PIRSA Minister fishing exemption, we return this coming week to source DNA samples from these fish to test for genetic diversity, among other things - important before one considers any translocation to new insurance sites. This is a 2015 video using an umbilical underwater micro-camera of a Male Purple-spotted Gudgeon. It was recorded at the same source site during an Honours field study by Ali Roush, looking at their habitat and water quality.