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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The more I think about the broad topic of citizen science, the more questions are raised around the notion of culture. In both the US and UK, nationwide projects harness […]
Looking through the twin lenses of water quality and water use in two European landscapes highlights a lengthy history of reshaping the environment. The German town of Freiburg (pop. […]
The language we overlay on to our surroundings reveal our cultural biases. The words assigned to landforms describe positive and negative states of being. Mountains. Reaching the pinnacle of success. […]
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