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August 2024

From the Mission Lead

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AquaWatch Mission Lead, Dr Alex Held

Welcome to the first in a series of emails to provide you with updates as we progress in developing AquaWatch Australia, a service to monitor and forecast water quality.

On World Water Day, we celebrated one year since launching in March 2023, and the work to demonstrate AquaWatch and scale up is keeping us very busy. From engaging at major events, to holding workshops with key stakeholders to growing our team with cross-cutting capabilities, AquaWatch is hitting some major milestones.

In the last few months, we welcomed our Deputy Lead, Janet Anstee, celebrated one year of AquaWatch on World Water Day, represented CSIRO at the World Water Forum, added our citizen science app (Eye on Water) to AquaWatch, held pilot site workshops for the Great Barrier Reef site and a potential site in New Caledonia and connected at the Murray Darling Association Conference.

We also welcomed Zandria Farrell as our new Partnerships Manager. Zandria brings her experience with the Australian Space Agency and Bureau of Meteorology to benefit the AquaWatch team.

The next few months are looking just as busy, so if you have colleagues that would like to stay up to date, please pass on the link to subscribe.

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