Last October, my NZ Landcare Trust colleagues (Alastair Cole and Craig Simpson) and I set up a meeting in Dunedin to bring together people interested in citizen science and those […]
We began our third citizen science projects tour at Nelson City Council (NCC), attending the Biodiversity Forum meeting. No matter how sophisticated our technology may be for communication, nothing beats […]
Participating in the annual 3-day Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust wananga at Omaha Marae was pure joy. The location was perfect: Goat Island, New Zealand’s first and much-visited marine reserve […]
Auckland Museum was the first stop on a day long tour of projects and activities all with a citizen science theme. Educators, community environmental group coordinators and members, education advisors […]
The first citizen science projects tour kicked off in Palmerston North. A group of 20 participants covered a surprising cross-section of the environmental sector representing farming, volunteers, regional government, trusts. […]
Like last year’s Ecological conference in Christchurch, I put forward a Citizen Science Symposium for this year’s #ERA2016Conf Ecological Restoration Australasia conference. The aim of the symposium was to update […]
For this working group meeting (Oct 29), Alastair Cole (NZ Landcare Trust), and I met with our Dunedin-based colleague, Craig Simpson. The inaugural Dunedin working group for the ‘Citizen Science […]
For the third working group meeting of the NZ Landcare Trust’s ‘Citizen science meets environmental restoration’ project, my colleague Alastair Cole and I chose the West End Rowing Club. We’d […]
The roots of my research lie in my projects with the NZ Landcare Trust and also in the international development sector, where I worked with communities on sustainable land management […]
Over the last few months, an impressive swag of citizen science-related publications have been released: insightful strategy documents, reports, and countless papers published in peer reviewed journals. However there’s been […]
