reflections on the citizen science workshop at #NZES2015
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, […]
Category Archives: Community environmental restoration
10 Recommendations: enhancing community-based environmental restoration outcomes
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 […]
Lake Koromatua: One of 1000 community restoration projects
I always find it interesting to ask volunteers how many hours they estimate they’ve put into their restoration projects. Hamilton Fish & Game Assn. members, Keith, John and Murray, average […]
Death by 1000 projects?
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 […]
Why volunteer for the environment?
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 […]
Citizen Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: distant cousins or siblings?
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 […]
8 Priorities for developing long-term volunteer monitoring programmes
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, […]
From a movement to a new discipline: Citizen science takes off
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 […]
Reflections on TEDxAKL 2015
Seated amongst 2200 people in the recent TEDx event in Auckland, it was pretty easy to be overawed. The draw-card was the inclusion of 4 scientists and an artist. That […]
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 […]
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