A group of nearly 20 citizen science practitioners, researchers, educators, coordinators, developers, movers and shakers gathered on Aug 10 in New Plymouth to formalise the Citizen Science Association of Aotearoa […]
For the third working group meeting of the NZ Landcare Trust’s ‘Citizen science meets environmental restoration’ project, my colleague Alastair Cole and I chose the West End Rowing Club. We’d […]
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 […]
On February 9, 22 diverse participants gathered at the Cawthron Institute for the NZ Landcare Trust’s first project working group meeting. The Ministry for the Environment funded project is “Citizen […]
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, […]
Monitoring carried out by community groups as a part of their restoration projects is an activity that just doesn’t receive a lot of attention. Might this change if proposed citizen […]
What drives people to document? I’ve borrowed the title of a multi-artist exhibition which takes 5-yearly in the northern German town of Kassel, because ultimately artists, like scientists observe and […]
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 […]
If ‘inter’ means ‘between’ then hopefully a good interview is more than just taking information and then departing. There’s a great poem by Bill Manhire (the title eludes me) that […]
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