Around 30 participants representing community groups, agency scientists and environmental managers joined in on a speed workshop (50 mins!) to help develop best practice for community monitoring. The event took […]
On February 9, 22 diverse participants gathered at the Cawthron Institute for the NZ Landcare Trust’s first project working group meeting. The Ministry for the Environment funded project is “Citizen […]
The final draft of my PhD was handed in a fortnight or so ago, between attending the NZ Ecological Society Conference in Christchurch and the Science Communicators of NZ conference […]
This blog is a summary of a very dynamic workshop that took place at the end of the NZ Ecological Society Conference last week in Christchurch. Amazingly, around 30 scientists, […]
Wrapping the first draft of my PhD in its wordy entirety, I’ve been musing over what recommendations can be drawn from the last 3 years of intensive research on community […]
Death by 1000 projects. That quote came from the recent Environmental Defense Society conference, though apologies, I’m not sure who to attribute it to. The point relates to the inefficiency […]
I’m a veteran volunteer have spent a year or more donating my time to various conservation and development projects around the world. But there’s also a wealth of literature that […]
I’m still wading through the terminology either associated with, or used as synonyms for citizen science by of trying to better understand the scope of public participation in science. One […]
With an abundance of well-established programmes across North America, Canada and Europe to reflect on, what science and people-related priorities can be brought together to guide the development of new, […]
Europe and the U.S., are fermenting with citizen science activities. Not just large-scale, volunteer data collection with an outreach component-type projects, but major initiatives that are changing the relationship between […]
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