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04/06/2026

The most recent algal cell counts (to 3 June) are now all uploaded to Luke Mosley’s Streamlit HAB display app, so check it out at

https://sa-algal-bloom.streamlit.app/
CLICK ON THE LINK TO SEE THE LATEST RESULTS
The nasty patch near Port Lincoln doesn’t seem to be abating, yet.

This interactive dashboard visualises harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring data from South Austra...

03/06/2026

Call-out for data returns from any community members who are doing plankton counts here in South Australia!
If you get the data return templates to me by 1:30 pm this Thursday (June 4 - tomorrow), your data will be in the dataset sent to Luke Mosley for uploading to the Streamlit harmful algal bloom display dashboard.
Feel free to share this call-out to any people you know doing plankton counts. Contact me with queries, or to find out how to contribute.

The image below is a Cryptophyte. Their chloroplasts have a range of different pigments so they can be khaki, blueish or reddish. They are asymmetrically shaped and their two flagella come out of a gullet that opens on one side of the wider end of the cell. They frequently have little visible clear globules of lipids in the tip of the narrow end of the cell.

31/05/2026

The Jill Hudson award finalists for this year have been announced. This award is Conservation SA’s peak award. Nominees and finalists have all “walked the talk” sometimes at great personal cost. My hat is off (so to speak) to all of the finalists and other nominees. The awards night is on the 5th World Environment Day and tickets are available online at the links on Conservation SA’s website.

30/05/2026

The Pelzer Prize is presented by Green Adelaide and is focused on urban biodiversity. These finalists are some of those responsible for the wilding and greening of our wonderful city.

30/05/2026

Interesting review of Pseudo-nitzschia and Dinophysis occurrence in the Atlantic, over 60 years of monitoring.
“The researchers say these changes are more closely aligned with physical shifts in the ocean driven by climate change, rather than through other human activity, such as fishing practices.”

https://www.mba.ac.uk/study-provides-detailed-assessment-of-shifts-in-toxin-producing-phytoplankton-abundance/?fbclid=IwZnRzaASHHNNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEejSnLCsRpNxcVjFVjTvEl7mMVabqXJcohbOfIcpJe396UbZKGD1ae48U5Bow_aem_N4KBo6Z0j-m_8weeaZRFiQ

UK researchers, including from the Marine Biological Association and the University of Plymouth, have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups known to produce natural toxins that can halt shellfish harvesting have changed in the North East Atlantic over the last six decades.

29/05/2026

Congratulations to all the finalists. And personal warm thoughts to the statewide volunteers who have counted plankton through the algal bloom, from the Fleurieu Peninsula, Coorong, Kangaroo Island, southern metro, northern metro, Yorke Peninsula and Eyre Peninsula, over so many painful months.
Reposted as the link appear to have disappeared from the earlier post

29/05/2026

These young Leif Justham award finalists show an oldster like me just how much difference you can make! I’ll be cheering you all on, through all your life journeys.

28/05/2026

The most recent algal cell counts (to 27 May) are now all uploaded to Luke Mosley’s Streamlit HAB display app, so check it out at

https://sa-algal-bloom.streamlit.app/
CLICK ON THE LINK TO SEE THE LATEST RESULTS
There are noticeably elevated Karenia counts in the Boston Bay Area of the Eyre Peninsula, and very low counts detectable along the SE coast of the EP as far north as Port Neill.

This interactive dashboard visualises harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring data from South Austra...

28/05/2026

Wow, this will be a hard choice. What fascinating research these finalists are conducting

27/05/2026

What amazing innovations! Well done to this year’s finalists for the Conservation SA Innovation award.