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Stay up-to-date with the Queensland-wide dugong population surveys.

Lead researcher Dr Chris Cleguer will be posting regularly during the travels.

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Meet the field team!

This survey wouldn’t be able to happen without our amazing field team. So, for this blog post we would like to tell you a bit about us...

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Engaging with Traditional owners across Queensland

An important part of our dugong survey project is to engage with Traditional Owner groups across the Queensland coast to (a) share and...

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Survey progress update

We are into day 22 of our big dugong population survey which, this year, will cover the southern section of the Great Barrier Reef as...

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We are transitoning to imagery surveys!

As we conduct our aerial surveys, there are cameras attached to the plane taking thousands of images. In the future, the goal is to use...

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Dugong surveys are underway!

We have kicked off the dugong population surveys of the urban coast of the Great Barrier Reef, starting from Townsville. So far we have...

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Dugong census begins!

James Cook University scientists are in the air conducting critical Queensland-wide dugong population survey – counting dugongs along...