How to appreciate a wetland
5 ways our wetlands can be appreciated – some ideas from a circumnavigation around Rangihoua wetland on Waiheke Island during EcoFest 2024
Category Archives: Science communication
Celebrating Our World: Through music, art and science
An insight into sharing art, science, images, and narratives at an orchestral event celebrating the natural world.
Life in the Shallows: Wetlands and their stories
When Karen Denyer, Executive Officer of the National Wetland Trust was contacted by Massey University Press to write a book on wetlands in Aotearoa, there was an immediate dilemma – […]
The NZ Garden Bird Survey: Why do we love birds so much?
Google “Why do we love birds so much?” and of all offerings this one pretty much sums it up: “Any answer is correct”. Responses meander across scientific, technical, creative, aesthetic […]
The early days of #CitSciNZ: crowdsourcing stoat data in our national parks (Post 1)
This is the first part of a 2-part post about engaging the public in stoat research in 1970s New Zealand. Future posts in the early days of #CitSciNZ series will […]
#WCMT Citizen Science research trip: Extreme #CitSci & extreme museums, London Day 1
I returned to the UK for a couple of days in London to meet with colleagues at University College, give myself a crash course in DIY bio-labs and see how […]
#WCMT Citizen Science research trip: #ForumCS 2019, Germany, Day 2
This is the second blog from the 2-day Forum Citizen Science event in the northern German city of Münster. It’s also the fifth blog highlighting activities on a Winston Churchill […]
5th Austrian #CitizenScience Conference – Funding, Open science, Socio-cultural #citsci & Gamification
This final blog (of three) summarises diverse themes drawn from #oecsk2019. Overall, the three-day event showcased a wide range of projects and programmes using diverse formats to share content. The […]
5th Austrian #CitizenScience Conference – #CitSciNZ, Biodiversity monitoring & Co-design
It’s not easy to categorise cit sci given the multi-disciplinary nature of many projects/programmes and the consequent diversity of outcomes sought. Out of sheer curiosity, however, I decided I would. […]
5th Austrian #CitizenScience Conference – Borders, frontiers, #CitSci definitions & benefits
The #oecsk2019 conference took place at the University of Innsbruck Alpine Research Station at the end of the road at 2000m asl in an archetypal landscape of mountains, snow drifts, […]
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