AMP Tomorrow Maker 2015 – Peter Macreadie

Dr. Peter Macreadie a Marine Ecologist from our School of Life and Environmental Sciences was one of 42 recipients of AMP’s Tomorrow Fund. This grant fund of $1 million supports scientists, social innovators, artists and athletes to create a better tomorrow for everyone with 2,500 applicants for 2015’s fund.

Dr. Macreadie is on a mission to raise awareness of the carbon storing potential of Australia’s coastal ecosystems, which can hold up to 40 times more carbon than inland area. He is using his AMP Tomorrow Fund grant to help measure greenhouse gases from degraded coastal habitats with the aim of highlighting the need to protect key sites around Australia’s coastline: “My research will develop new knowledge of how coastal ecosystems should be managed to ensure our vast reservoirs of coastal carbon achieve maximum carbon offset capacity.”

Dr. Macreadie, said that because the ability of "blue carbon habitats, including mangroves, saltmarsh, and seagrass, to bury carbon at rates more than 40 times faster than trees had shed new light on opportunities to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Watch Dr. Macreadie’s AMP video or discover how you could also help change tomorrow through research within our School of Life and Environmental Sciences.