PhD progress: Research Snapshot #5
Somewhere…. over the rainbow…. My PhD has entered the final 6 or so months and I’m busy writing and getting research results to whom it may help better inform: regional […]
Category Archives: Citizen science
Before They Were Scientists
Lea Shell’s job is to track down scientists from around the world and interview them for Your Wild Life. The following is an excerpt, judiciously edited to tidy up the […]
Making science accessible and inclusive
There’s an important distinction between the type of science historically carried out by unpaid citizen and what is currently described as citizen science. It centres on accessibility and inclusivity. During […]
#CitSci2015: An overview of the inaugural #CitizenScience Association conference
Citizen Science 2015 marked the inaugural meeting of the Citizen Science Association from Feb 11- 12 in San Jose, California. Over 600 participants from 25 different countries converged to discuss […]
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Citizen science is undoubtedly a buzzword. You know that when it starts being used by government ministries in phrases like “Citizen Science is a driver for change”. Though I’m not […]
The culture of #volunteer #waterqualitymonitoring
I had one Big Question: Why are so many US citizens monitoring the water quality of their local lakes? To answer this, I feverishly wrote funding applications to cover the […]
Research snapshot #4
Browsing through the latest Nature Space newsletter reminds me why I undertook this PhD. The endlessly inspiring stories raise important questions of how community environmental groups could be situated within […]
How many scientists are there in New Zealand?
I had a simple question: How many scientists are there in New Zealand? The answer provided by the wonderful folk at Stats NZ was embedded in a 59 page spreadsheet […]
Monitoring, quietly
Monitoring carried out by community groups as a part of their restoration projects is an activity that just doesn’t receive a lot of attention. Might this change if proposed citizen […]
Enhancing #Scientificliteracy
Public engagement in science is a hot topic highlighted by the ‘Nation of Curious Minds’ project and the National Objectives Framework component of the Freshwater Reform package. For both, the […]
monicalogues 