Forest & Bird NZ: notes from the 35th annual conference
Around 100 branch members from around New Zealand, staff, supporters and speakers converged in Wellington on June 25, 2016 for the annual Forest and Bird Conference. The conference was an […]
Category Archives: Community environmental restoration
3 Days of international citizen science in Berlin: perspectives from #ECSA2016
I’ll start with praise for the European Citizen Science Association in bringing together ‘Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy’, attended by over 300 people mainly from Europe and the […]
Palmerston North citizen science working group #1: A ferment of ideas!
For this working group meeting (April 11), Alastair Cole (NZ Landcare Trust), and I travelled to Palmerston North. Landcare Research, tucked on the edge of the sprawling Massey campus, hosted […]
Life, lakes and farming: historical perspectives on a special landscape
There’s nothing I like more than having a good yarn. An idea I had, as a teenager living in Auckland, was to travel around New Zealand, exploring the landscape and […]
Sneak Peek: An inventory of #citizenscience projects, tools and training opportunities in NZ
As a part of the NZ Landcare Trust Citizen Science Meets Environmental Restoration project. I’ve been charged with bringing an inventory together that provide a snapshot of what’s happening around […]
Reviving Rotoroa Island and reinventing a socio-ecosystem
It’s been a summer of a lot of travel, invariably including a number of ecological restoration projects. Rotoroa Island is truly unique. I travelled to Rotoroa Island in late December […]
Working towards best practice for community environmental monitoring
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 […]
Nelson citizen science working group #1: A summary of discussions
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 […]
Wellington Workshop notes: A system-wide approach to science education, communication & engagement
The aim of this University of Waikato-sponsored event (Dec 15), was to gain international input from Jonathan Osborne (Kamalachari Professor of Science Education, Stanford University, USA); share work related to […]
PhD progress: The final Research Snapshot (#6)
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 […]
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