lee baumgartner

Freshwater Fish Ecologist passionate about helping fisheries worldwide. Have a strong focus on the Murray Darling Basin and Mekong River systems.

[Gulbali Institute @Gulbali_Inst]

There are valid concerns to any future Australian release of the carp herpes virus, including cleaning up dead carp, and potential significant reductions to water quality and native fish numbers. @CharlesSturtUni ecology experts weigh in on the discussion. https://t.co/XODFHfA9tC

[ACIAR CEO @ACIARCEO]

Great to join HE @AusAmbPP Pablo Kang & Prof Lee Baumgartner ⁦@CharlesSturtUni⁩ for the Cambodian 🇰🇭 launch of FishTech - crucial science for #foodsecurity in the Mekong and other deltas. ⁦@dfat⁩ ⁦@SenatorWong⁩ ⁦@ACIARAustralia⁩

[ACIAR CEO @ACIARCEO]

Great launch of the next phase of DFAT-ACIAR FishTech project in Cambodia 🇰🇭 led by ⁦@CharlesSturtUni⁩, with HE Pablo Kang @AusEmbPP This Stung Chinnit fishway built early 2000s based on a Queensland design, since refined. ⁦@dfat⁩ ⁦@SenatorWong⁩ ⁦@afsnsw⁩

[Inland Fisheries Research Group @InlandFishRG]

📣PhD Opportunities + Scholarships 📣 3 great opportunities available with themes such as #citizenscience, mitigating #thermalpollution and #FirstNations water rights in #Australian inland waterways. @CharlesSturtUni @Gulbali_Inst https://t.co/TvxnlXtzEj

[ausvetgroup @ausvetgroup]

Ausvet senior consultant @EmmaZalcman inserting an acoustic tag into an Asian red tail fish in Laos this week. Ausvet is thrilled to be supporting @InlandFishRG @Gulbali_Inst @WaterPartnersAU and @nuolofficial in monitoring fish passage in the lower Mekong

[ACIAR @ACIARAustralia]

🇦🇺 is investing more in technology to protect fish, boost river health & food security & increase climate resilience across the Mekong 🇱🇦 🇰🇭 🇹🇭 🇻🇳 🐟

#ACIAR will manage the @dfat investment under a @CharlesSturtUni-led initiative.

Read more: https://t.co/Lq1sOeDS7a

[Inland Fisheries Research Group @InlandFishRG]

New paper 📝 alert 🚨 !

[lee baumgartner @leebaumgartner]

@FishPassage2018 What a fantastic end to #Fishpassage2018. The outback fish screening tour allowed the delegates to get up close to a +1m Murray cod in the Yarrawonga fish lift, discussed fishway design at Torrumbarry weir, visited awma factory in cohuna.

[lee baumgartner @leebaumgartner]

@amhdickson Can install fish screens at the pumps. Keeps them out of the channel. Siphons then safe.

[ABC News @abcnews]

ICYMI: Rare eel-like #lamprey re-emerges in #SouthAustralia's Lower Murray http://t.co/97j8ehcMZg