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Tag Archives: New Zealand

Working towards best practice for community environmental monitoring

February 23, 2016by Monica Peters 1 Comment

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 […]

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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration, Indigenous culture(s), Science communication, Volunteer monitoring

PhD progress: The final Research Snapshot (#6)

December 9, 2015by Monica Peters 3 Comments

The final draft of my PhD was handed in a fortnight or so ago, between attending the NZ Ecological Society Conference in Christchurch and the Science Communicators of NZ conference […]

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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration, PhD Research 2013-2016, Volunteer monitoring

reflections on the citizen science workshop at #NZES2015

November 25, 2015by Monica Peters 7 Comments

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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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration, Conferences, Symposia & Awards, Indigenous culture(s), Science communication, Volunteer monitoring

Before They Were Scientists

March 25, 2015by Monica Peters 2 Comments

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 […]

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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration, Indigenous culture(s), Volunteer monitoring

The culture of #volunteer #waterqualitymonitoring

December 1, 2014by Monica Peters Leave a comment

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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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration, Conferences, Symposia & Awards, Indigenous culture(s), Volunteer monitoring, Water quality

How many scientists are there in New Zealand?

September 27, 2014by Monica Peters Leave a comment

I had a simple question: How many scientists are there in New Zealand? The answer provided by the wonderful folk at Stats NZ was embedded in a 59 page spreadsheet […]

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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration

Research Snapshot #1

September 11, 2013by Monica Peters Leave a comment

Who knew that there are more than 500 community groups actively restoring degraded landscapes across New Zealand? The PhD research began a year ago and what I outline here is […]

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Citizen science, Community environmental restoration, PhD Research 2013-2016, Science communication, Volunteer monitoring

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My kaupapa is interpreting and understanding our environment and how we – as individuals and as a society interact with the natural world. Through my consultancy people+science I contract to NGOs and Government agencies, drawing on a broad skill set: biodiversity restoration, mixed method social research, project design and delivery, science communication and governance. A background in fine arts complements my science-based mahi and provides another avenue for exploring and decoding our surroundings.

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