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Researcher and PhD student Amber McEwan

Freshwater ecologist holding a kōura, a NZ freshwater crayfish.

Amber McEwan is a freshwater ecologist who is currently studying kākahi, New Zealand’s threatened freshwater mussels. Here she is holding a kōura, a freshwater crayfish.

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