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The Marine Life Society of South Australia online library

July 28, 2025 Steve Reynolds

We have an online library through Librarika Each of the items in our library are given ‘Categories’ for topics from ‘Animal behaviour’ to ‘Wildlife’. Most items have some relevance to…

Algae

Remarkable Recovery of Depleted Kelp Beds

October 7, 2024 Steve Reynolds

John Turnbull (Marine Explorer) posted these stills on Flickr a while back: – “Before and After the Floods #marineexplorer (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwturnbull/51114323714/ ) According to the caption for the two stills,…

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More on the Botanist Jessie Hussey of Port Elliot

August 23, 2022 Steve Reynolds

I wrote about Jessie Hussey in the articles titled Jessie Hussey’s contribution to the knowledge of SA’s marine flora and Mike Moore’s “butterfly of the month”, followed by Lisa Waters…

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More Seaweed Farming

February 2, 2022 Steve Reynolds

The Moonrise Seaweed Co. has been working towards the farming of seaweed for the past 3 years. They say that “seaweed farming has the potential to be a win-win-win form…

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Follow-up re Red Alga Use in Agriculture

January 29, 2022 Steve Reynolds

There has been a new development since I wrote my two articles about red alga use in agriculture – Red Alga Use in Agriculture Update re Red Alga Use in…

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Update re Red Alga Use in Agriculture

October 7, 2021 Steve Reynolds

After writing Red Alga Use in Agriculture last year, I stumbled across Adam Main, one of the key personnel from CH4 SA. After a brief chat, we remained in contact…

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Red Alga Use in Agriculture

December 15, 2020 Steve Reynolds

A South Australian company called CH4 SA, as part of CH4 Global, will be farming red algae to help to improve bovine meat and dairy production, whilst eliminating the dreaded…

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Seaweeds found to be also sensitive to ocean warming

December 20, 2019 Steve Reynolds

Seaweeds found to be also sensitive to ocean warming by Steve Reynolds Alexia Graba-Landry says that seaweeds are just as sensitive to ocean warming as corals. Alexia is a 2017-2019…

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From Stromatolites to Microbialites

November 23, 2019 Steve Reynolds

From Stromatolites to Microbialites by Steve Reynolds During Ian Lewis’ talk about cave diving around Mount Gambier at the SDFSA’s Splash Inn event during SA Scuba Week, he mentioned the…

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Species sighted at Witton Bluff & Christies Reef

September 26, 2019 Steve Reynolds

Species sighted at Witton Bluff & Christies Reef by Steve Reynolds As reported in My Early Diving Days , Witton Bluff is the high point on the coast between Port…