Monitoring & Investigation

• Monitoring program design and implementation

• Shore-based and small-boat based sampling

• Research assistance - field and laboratory support

• Water quality monitoring - nutrients, phytoplankton, pollutants

• Water quality assessment and advice

• Aquatic flora survey and identification (macrophytes, macroalgae, charophytes)

• River and wetland fringing vegetation survey

• Aquatic fauna surveys

• Macroinvertebrate identification and abundance counts

• Targeted surveys for rare and priority species (including Carter's Freshwater Mussel)

• Aquatic sediment sampling - nutrients, pollutants, acid sulphate soils

• Data analysis and technical reporting