Rottnest Island survey weekend 20th-23rd May
July 18, 2011 by Toni · Leave a Comment
The fourth annual RLS Rottnest Island survey weekend proved yet another success, with the majority of sites surveyed by an excellent group of RLS divers, all with much appreciated help from the Rottnest Island Authority.
Port Phillip Bay survey weekend 6th- 11th May.
July 15, 2011 by Toni · Leave a Comment
A small group of Victorian and NSW divers headed down to Queenscliff for the Port Phillip Bay annual survey weekend.
Jervis Bay 14th-18th April 2011
May 24, 2011 by Toni · Leave a Comment
Once again, another crack team of NSW RLSers travelled to Jervis Bay for a great weekend of surveying on board Ocean Trek.
Sydney survey weekend 25-28th March
May 3, 2011 by Toni · Leave a Comment
RLS divers from Port Stephens, Newcastle and Sydney recently got together to re-survey a bunch of RLS annual reef monitoring sites in the Sydney area.
Spotted handfish surveys – Derwent River, 12th – 13th March 2011
March 24, 2011 by Toni · Leave a Comment
The Derwent Estuary Program recently initiated a recovery project for the endangered spotted handfish, with RLS assisting to establish a core group of local divers that can assist in monitoring a couple of key handfish populations in the Derwent Estuary. The second survey weekend for this project was held over the 12th and 13th March to survey handfish not far from the centre of Hobart and, like the first, was incredibly successful.
Cape Howe, Eastern Victoria (2nd-5th Feb)
February 17, 2011 by Toni · Leave a Comment
A very small crew headed up to Mallacoota for a short, intensive survey weekend of the Cape Howe region. Read more
Spotted handfish surveys – Derwent River (8th-9th Jan 2011)
February 9, 2011 by Toni · Leave a Comment
The Derwent Estuary Program recently initiated a recovery project for the endangered spotted handfish, with RLS assisting to establish a core group of local divers that can assist in monitoring a couple of key handfish populations in the Derwent Estuary.
The friendly Friends of Beware Reef by Don Love
October 6, 2010 by Toni · Leave a Comment
The RLS group of Far East Gippsland, is a small group of diving dinosaurs, that are so old that they can still remember snorkels with ping-pong balls and goggles with Perspex lenses!
RLS Tropical Survey Expedition Part II (East Coast)
August 25, 2010 by Toni · Leave a Comment
Three months later and the RLS tropical survey trip has come to an end. A long and successful trip which has generated a huge wad of data and filled many survey gaps around the tropical coast of Australia. Read more
RLS Tropical Australia Expedition Part I (West Coast)
June 24, 2010 by Rick · Leave a Comment
In mid May, following the annual RLS Rottnest Is survey weekend, a small team departed Perth heading north to start a monumental effort to fill in spatial gaps in the ever growing RLS Australian database.
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