The opening page of newly developed National Strategic Plan for Science in Society states: “Science literacy is fundamentally important to the future of young New Zealanders”. I’d change that to […]
A while ago a group of us (government agency and NGO staff, researchers as well as scientists) got together and discussed the need for a decision-tree to guide groups through […]
“…the push to find more efficient means of doing your trapping so you don’t have to go out into the field quite so often, is that you are not going […]
Where do community environmental groups fit into the increasingly talked about citizen science movement? With the vast scale and diverse nature of the international citizen science movement, three main models […]
Over a few short weeks in September last year, nearly 300 NZ community groups responded to an email questionnaire. Two main themes were explored – the scope and nature of […]
An almost overwhelming number of dialogues underway from government agencies to volunteers are exploring the overlay between community groups, science-based tools and data generation. If the ‘seeds’ are the groups […]
What drives people to document? I’ve borrowed the title of a multi-artist exhibition which takes 5-yearly in the northern German town of Kassel, because ultimately artists, like scientists observe and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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