EstuaryWatch Data Portal

New batteries in the YSI meter.

Birds present at site

Seagulls

Black Swan 

Ibis

Coots

Pied commorant

Birds present at site.

Pelicans

White Ibis

White faced heron

Greater Cormorant

Chestnut teal

Pacific black duck

chestnut teals, pacific black duck, purple swamp hen, white ibis

Cormorants- large black (yellow faced)

                     small black

                     ducks (pacific black)

                     moorhens

                    chestnut teals

UR fault on ph meter. Calibration fail. - No worries, J.Obst

Results look good; strong salt wedge forming due to declining inflows.  Thanks Jarred.

Chestnut teal, Pacific black duck, Shell duck, White faced heron, Purple swamp hen. Greater egret, Pied cormorant.

Eleanor Cowell and James Cowell Samplers.

Thansk everyone, great results.  Very fresh and consistent results following some very wet weather!  Cheers Jarred.

Little Pied Cormorant, Chestnut Teal (lots), Coots (lots), Pacific gull, Moorhen, Aust. Grebe, White Faced Heron, Great Egret.

Lots of plant debris on surface of river.

Other Samplers; Eleanor Cowell, James Cowell and Jarred Obst.

Pacific ducks, Pied cormorants, White faced herons, Waterhen.

Thanks everyone!  Results remain really interesting and fantastic photopoints capturing the current mouth condition.  Interestingly, there's been enough flow to keep the mouth open, but not enough to completely flush the lower depths which still contain some older salty water.  It will be very interesting to see if tomorrow's results have improved the lower depths given we've had a fantastic month of autumn rainfall which has resulted in the first sign of freshwater inflows into our estuaries.  Regards Jarred.

Pacific black duck, Chestnut teal, Moorhens with chicks.

We returned to Edwards Bridge for this session.

Pacific black duck, Chestnut teal.

Jarred - thanks everyone for your monitoring.  Results are very interesting, particularly the low D.O, but I believe your values are true and have picked up on an algal bloom.  This is quite common in this part of the estuary, and i've since seen some very high and very low readings over each diurnal (daily) cycle as the algal produces oxygen during sunlight, and then consumes it during darkness!  

As noted above D.O. failed to calibrate.

White faced Heron, Moorhens

J.Obst - sorry to hear about the meter; i'll look into this for you.  Other readings show a very distinct salt-wedge which reflects the recent dry weather and summer flow reduction.

Dusky Moorhen, Swallows, Mudlarks, Raven.

Jarred - Great readings with an extremely distince saltwedge present - the season is changing!!  

Thanks Gary & Rachel.  Very well mixed freshwater dominated profile at present.  Interestingly, D.O.s are slightly on the low side, but this is something we've seen during previous years in Sept/Oct.  Cheers Jarred.

Lots of ozola mat floating around pontoon.

Spoonbill, Chestnut teal, Pacific black duck.

Hi everyone, Great data set with a very distinct salt-wedge!

Moorhens, Pacific black ducks, Chestnut teals.

Great results everyone, thanks for this recent monitoring.  June rainfall has definitely impacted the water quality - in a good way - with the profile now well mixed with highly oxygenated freshwater.  More of this to come if the months ahead I think!  Thanks Jarred.

Australian coot, Pacific black duck, Chestnut teal, White ibis.

Great bird observations once again & interesting (yet explainable) dataset with the low DOs in the deeper salt water layer.  This is seasonally typical however and we should see this flush out soon with the winter rains potentially upon us.  Thanks Jarred.

Little black cormorants, White ibis, Little pied cormorants, Chestnut teal, Pacific black duck.

Thanks guys.  Data looks great for this time of year, particularly D.O. both above and below the salt-wedge, especially with the lack of rain we've had over the past 5 months (the lower salt layer can naturally become anoxic under these conditions).  Cheers Jarred.

This data collected by Karen Wales and her students from SWTAFE.

No D.O % sat measured.

Phosphorus 0.1

Data looks great, with a very prominent salt-wedge!  Thanks to Karen and the SWTafe students for testing; and thanks Gary for entering this data.  Cheers Jarred.