Oral Presentation Australian Society for Limnology Conference 2017

The Algal Resource Kit; a new citizen science tool to increase monitoring for freshwater cyanobacterial blooms (#109)

Simon Mitrovic 1
  1. University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia

A new "Algal Resource Kit" has been developed that will allow expanded monitoring of cyanobacterial blooms across NSW. The kit will be distributed to community groups and interested parties such as council staff, fisheries, caravan parks and other recreational businesses near waterways to allow them to test for potential blooms. The kit comprises of several simple tests, sampling resources to send samples for testing and a new App that will allow the identification of scums.