Workshop

Monitoring River Ecosystem Health

John Gooderham, Freshwater Ecologist The National Waterbug Blitz

Tasmanian River Ecosystem Health ... Waterbugs ... Telling It How It Is

Many Landcare projects have a river running through them. Waterbugs are really good indicators of the health of a waterway. Using The tools provided by The National Waterbug Blitz, you can do your own science. This workshop introduces you to these ecosystems and where to find more information about them.

The main resource used will be The National Waterbug Blitz website which shows information about the ecological health of rivers throughout Tasmania. It includes a tool that tells you what all the upstream land is used for. Handy.

John Gooderham is a freshwater ecologist.  He works with The National Waterbug Blitz. He co authored The Waterbug Book with Edward Tsyrlin (CSIRO 2002), The Waterbug App with Michael Sharman (a free ID app on iOS and Android!).  He is currently making short waterbug documentaries and helping people set up citizen science projects to monitor rivers and wetlands around Australia – using waterbugs.

Read more about Waterbug Blitz here