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“We were obviously never going to do anything about this until it’s way too late”
The fading away feeling - I can relate. 3 and a half years watching my world shrink. But then this week - a small solar lantern casts dragonflies on the verandah table and speaks to me of emergence. For some reason I’m feeling so much more alive this week. I hope that feeling continues.
Finally, the definitive paper on the composition of the South Australian HAB has hit the preprint servers. It’s already been formally peer-reviewed. Sit down with a cuppa and have a solid read of this sobering paper.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Wow. He is suggesting his entire armed forces become war criminals?
Thanks Sandy. And friends in the Mediterranean have their own marine heatwave troubles…
That vaguely irritating… I can’t tell you where that sits in the scale of irritation relating to all the conspiracist “causes” of this bloom. But it’s in there, somewhere in that bucket of crap.
A really wide Karenia microalgae cell, stained yellow with Lugol’s media. Its nucleus is a round red patch, centrally located in the cell. The cell is 40 microns wide and 27 microns tall, with a waistline marking the top quadrant of the cell, and a distinct node on its apex
An orange, Lugol’s-stained Gyrodinium dinoflagellate. Long, pointy, and built for speed, this microalgae is nearly 70 microns wide long
Guinardia flaccida is a chain-forming centric diatom with unique star-shaped chloroplasts dotted across its cylindrical valves.
Latest counts of Karenia in sheltered areas of the northern Yorke Peninsula are depressing. The HAB continues to growl along. 4,778 cells/mL (4.8 million cells per litre) at the Wills Creek boat ramp at Price.
I laughed
Yes. Wifi
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“Sea-sick” is a superb 20 minute documentary made by Surfers 4 Climate, about the HAB (harmful algal bloom) affecting 4.500 square kilometers of South Australia’s coastal waters.
surfersforclimate.org.au/pages/sea-si...
Grab a cuppa, sit down with this report, and get up to speed with South Australia’s marine Harmful Algal Bloom
www.croakey.org/health-exper...
Just need to belt my health back into line enough to start driving again… baby steps to get back into my happy home
Yes. Virtually impossible. After over five years not flying at all, I had 4 clients needing me to ‘hop on a plane’ in the past 18 months. ‘Hopping’ is beyond me, and the flights appalling. I hope I’ll soon be able to use my little bus to trundle off to places I’m called to in Australia, at least.
And only check out the mortalities records if you can bear it - it is horrendously sad. But the citizen science data tells us lots about the timing of the spread of the bloom, and which species were first, later, most, least affected.
inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/sa-...
Are you following the toxic algal bloom disaster afflicting South Australia? Locals with microscopes are starting to pop up records of marine life mortalities and plankton records onto iNaturalist. check out the plankton records at inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/phy...
Here is an updated graphic showing the 365-day running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly over the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline from 1941 to July 8, 2025.
I've highlighted a few key moments in the planet's recent history.
A lab bench with three sample bottles and three measuring cylinders. The water samples in the cylinders is honey gold, stained with Lugol’s media to settle the microalgae for counting
Plankton samples settling. Recent counts have included the coast from Ardrossan to Price on the Yorke Peninsula, West Lakes and Garden Island in northern Adelaide, and the Onkaparinga estuary. That Karenia mikimotoi sure gets around.
That butcher bird’s vocals are pretty amazing
Your HABs are going to like this. I wonder how far inland the respiratory effects of a massive marine Karenia brevis bloom can penetrate?
Nut bar. The kind with just nuts held together with a whiff of toffee. Protein. Fats. Sugar.
Are there people who know Derek, who may be able to help?
There is a new, downloadable leaflet on what photographs will make your iNaturalist observations of Shrubby samphire even more valuable. You can download the leaflet from the 'Shrubby samphire and climate change' project on iNaturalist, at
www.inaturalist.org/projects/shr...
Ha! Found you here! Much nicer over here than at that other place!
Tiny microcrustacean copepod, about 1mm long, carrying two egg sacks tucked between its legs and lower abdomen
Sheaoak Flat has a fascinating soup of organisms in the near shore at the moment - in between the mass of organic debris partially dissolved in the water post-storm that blew some of the bloom away… Here is a cure copepod to brighten up your day
Yesterday Jo from the ABC rang to talk about my being added to the Conservation SA ‘Hall of Fame’ but we rapidly diverted into a chat about mangroves and saltmarshes - as you do!
The chat starts early in the show, at 7:35 minutes in, and runs to 15:58 minutes.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
“We are all going to die.”
True.
But not an advantageous approach to life…
and is almost always used instead of the true intended statement which is…
“You are going to die, and I can’t be bothered to save you.”
Indeed, the glassiest way to gallop
A microscope slide with scale bar, with a tintinnid in focus. A yellow-stained protozoan that lives in a clear wineglass shaped ‘lorica’ or ‘test’
It’s the name. It makes me smile. This is a tintinnid. A type of protozoan that gallops around in a wine glass. Normally not yellow - fell in a puddle of iodine stain on my microscope slide.