Drones, kites and blue carbon at Heron Island

Our recent trip to Heron Island was a great success, despite a minor drone crash and some trying winds…the team was great and we had lots of fun in the process! One of the products arising from this work will be an open-source, best practices-type manual to serve as a toolkit to help other researchers, conservation practitioners and resource managers use drones to survey reefs and other marine environments. We also collected lots of samples to see how predators may indirectly affect blue carbon storage as part of the Global Change Institute grant. Stay tuned! (All photos are by Brian Sullivan unless otherwise noted.)