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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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