Mana Island, Wellington: #community #restoration and #partnerships
A few months ago, I took the opportunity while heading down to a conference in Wellington to squeeze in a field trip to the Mana Island Scientific Reserve. The weather […]
Category Archives: Indigenous culture(s)
#CitSci2017 …rough notes and various reflections on #citizenscience
It’s always interesting attending large international events when you come from a small country that on Eurocentric maps, appears perilously close to the edge of the earth. With around 500 […]
Integrating #citizenscience with #marine and #freshwater #conservationaction and #education
Participating in the annual 3-day Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust wananga at Omaha Marae was pure joy. The location was perfect: Goat Island, New Zealand’s first and much-visited marine reserve […]
Great Mercury /Ahuahu: #pestfree island #sanctuary for flora, fauna & rockstars!
Making Great Mercury Island pest free began with a casual discussion between Pete Corson (DOC) and Michael Fay (Island co-owner), in the back of a ute in 2009. With […]
#SCANZ2016 Illustration/investigation: revealing the #art-sci nexus through line & light
For the recent Science Communicators Assn of NZ conference (Dunedin, Nov 14-16), I decided to challenge myself and present on art and science rather than my more accustomed themes of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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