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Aboriginal elders share river stories with young people & researchers
  • Scientists are working with Aboriginal people in the Kimberley to better understand how the rivers and wetlands of the Fitzroy catchment have changed during people’s lifetimes. 
North QLD river researchers solve why big floods equal big barramundi
  • A team of river detectives has confirmed what every keen barramundi fisher knows – big floods equal big fish – and they think they know why.
Hairy helicopter flights reveal what keeps the Fitzroy River flowing
  • By hovering in a helicopter only one metre above the Fitzroy River which flows through the Kimberley in north Western Australia, scientists have discovered that underground water flows into the river where the Fitzroy meets the Cunningham River.
How healthy are the Daly and Katherine Rivers?
  • New research has set the stage for a more comprehensive and more collaborative approach to monitoring the health of the Katherine and Daly Rivers. 
Gulf floods bring prawn bonanza
  • Last summer’s big floods across the Gulf of Carpentaria resulted in a larger catch of banana prawns than normal for the fishers of far northern Queensland.

Researchers from the Tropical Rivers & Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) program say the big rains pushed the prawns from their estuary nursery grounds out into the sea as the salinity levels within the estuaries dropped.

Years of sewage outflows damaging Buffalo Creek
  • The ecological health of Buffalo Creek, a tidal creek near Darwin has been severely damaged by the sewage flowing into it, researchers have found after an intense week of sampling.
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TRaCK features in Stories of Australian Science 2010

Three articles about TRaCK projects  have been featured in this magazine which was distributed to 500 delegates at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, held in Melbourne, 1-4 December 2009.

Water Planning in Australia's Tropical North

A new summary report has been produced by TRaCK's Collaborative water planning project. It summarizes key outputs of the project so far.

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