Celebrating the ‘grassroots’
A couple of weeks back, I attended the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust’s conference – Celebrating 25 years of restoring habitat, sharing knowledge, corporate sponsorship by Mainland and protecting one of the […]
Author Archives: Monica Peters
Measurement in #Art & #Science
I’ve spent a long time pondering the notion of measurement through the lenses of both art and science. As artist in residence at the Centre for Book and Paper Arts […]
Diffusion
Recently I decided to enter a competition which required summarising the nuts and bolts of my PhD into a 3 minute presentation with a single fixed slide. No fancy props, […]
Research Snapshot #1
Who knew that there are more than 500 community groups actively restoring degraded landscapes across New Zealand? The PhD research began a year ago and what I outline here is […]
(Citizen)Science culture
The more I think about the broad topic of citizen science, the more questions are raised around the notion of culture. In both the US and UK, nationwide projects harness […]
Insider and outsider
Delving back into a literature review but being side-tracked by the methods employed in this research project is food for another (slightly rambling) blog post… The tension between insider (emic) […]
Water, Wasser, L’eau
Looking through the twin lenses of water quality and water use in two European landscapes highlights a lengthy history of reshaping the environment. The German town of Freiburg (pop. […]
From interviews to conversations
If ‘inter’ means ‘between’ then hopefully a good interview is more than just taking information and then departing. There’s a great poem by Bill Manhire (the title eludes me) that […]
Landscape language
The language we overlay on to our surroundings reveal our cultural biases. The words assigned to landforms describe positive and negative states of being. Mountains. Reaching the pinnacle of success. […]
So what is #CitizenScience?
Community-based environmental monitoring or just volunteer monitoring forms a subset of activities under the umbrella of citizen science. It’s about people, community members, non-scientists getting out there and collecting data. […]
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