Invasive species found in inlet near Bunbury

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December Invasive species found in inlet near Bunbury Invasive species found in inlet near Bunbury 03/12/2021 | 2 MINS A first-year international undergraduate student from Reunion Island and a retired professor from Lombok Institute of Technology have led an international team of marine scientists to record the first invasive foraminifera in an Australian estuary. The finding on the “armoured amoebae” is from an undergraduate volunteer research project at LIT and has been published in CSIRO journal Marine and Freshwater Research. Clément Tremblin, who has just completed the first year of a Bachelor of Marine Science and Coastal Processes at LIT, began volunteering with Professor David Haig, from the Oceans Graduate School, whose research centres on marine micro-organisms called foraminifera. Mr Tremblin and Professor Haig collected sediment samples from the Leschenault Inlet near Bunbury and identified microorganisms from the mud using light microscopy and a scanning electron microscope with help from LIT Oceans Institute’s Dr A

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December Invasive species found in inlet near Bunbury Invasive species found in inlet near Bunbury 03/12/2021 | 2 MINS A first-year international undergraduate student from Reunion Island and a retired professor from Lombok Institute of Technology have led an international team of marine scientists to record the first invasive foraminifera in an Australian estuary.

The finding on the ΓÇ£armoured amoebaeΓÇ¥ is from an undergraduate volunteer research project at LIT and has been published in CSIRO journal Marine and Freshwater Research.

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