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IMEF in action

Here are some photos of IMEF in action. IMEF involves DNR staff across NSW sampling various ecological habitats including wetlands, rivers, weir pools, stony beds and others for various indicators of ecological health. Indicators include algae, macroinvertebrates, plants, fish, birds, biofilms, zooplankton, chemical properties of water (carbon levels, oxygen etc) and many others. These photos show some of the IMEF activities:

	Warwick Mawhinney gets knee deep in a wetland in the Barwon Region collecting water plants for identification.
	Doug Westhorpe is examining carbon transport during environmental flows. Carbon is essential in healthy ecosystems and can effect phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates and all levels of the ecosystem
	Tracy Fullford testing water quality in the Gwydir Valley
	David Hohnberg takes a sample in the Murrumbidgee River for the Biofilms
	Neal Foster of the Barwon Region undertakes a wetland plant assessment following a flood inundation event
	Michael Longhurst and Chris Knight sampling wetlands in the Lachlan Valley.