Biography:Barbara Anderson (scientist)
Barbara J. Anderson | |
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| Alma mater | University of Otago (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ecology |
| Thesis | Something to do with community structure: the influence of sampling and analysis on measures of community structure (2006) |
Barbara Jane Anderson is a New Zealand ecologist.[1][2]
Education
Anderson graduated with a PhD in botany from the University of Otago, Dunedin, in 2006.[3]
Research and career
Beginning in 2015, Anderson co-ordinates a citizen science project, the Ahi Pepe MothNet project which encourages members of the public to engage with moths at Orokonui Ecosanctuary.[4] The project brought public attention to the role of moths in the ecosystem and also provides schoolchildren and adults with an experience of "hands-on" science. As a result of the interest in the project, a bilingual Māori–English guide to New Zealand moths was published in 2018.[5][6] In 2017, a group of Dunedin schoolchildren were invited to present their experiences of the project to the World Indigenous People's Conference on Education in Toronto.[7]
Anderson is the President of The Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences.[8]
Anderson is a Royal Society Rutherford Discovery Fellow based at the Otago Museum[9] working with the museum's insect collection.
Notable achievements
In 2019 Anderson had the New Zealand endemic moth species Ichneutica barbara named in her honour.[10][11]
References
- ↑ "Tea bag research brewing" (in en). Otago Daily Times Online News. 2015-02-04. https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown-lakes/tea-bag-research-brewing.
- ↑ "Moths maligned and misunderstood" (in en). http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/103325628/moths-maligned-and-misunderstood.
- ↑ Anderson, Barbara Jane (2004). Something to do with community structure: the influence of sampling and analysis on measures of community structure : a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Thesis). OCLC 156744054.
- ↑ "Barbara Anderson: moths and citizen science" (in en-nz). Radio New Zealand. 2016-10-29. https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201821778/barbara-anderson-moths-and-citizen-science.
- ↑ "New moth resource merges science and a Māori worldview" (in en). Māori Television. http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/education/new-moth-resource-merges-science-and-maori-worldview.
- ↑ "Meet the team" (in en-GB). https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/information-for/citizen-science/mothnet/about/team.
- ↑ "Students to spread wings on trip of a lifetime, leaving Dunedin for Canada for moth presentation" (in en-NZ). TVNZ. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/students-spread-wings-trip-lifetime-leaving-dunedin-canada-moth-presentation.
- ↑ "2021 Council". https://otago-institute.org/council/.
- ↑ "A Moth Named Barbara" (in en-US). https://otagomuseum.nz/blog/a-moth-named-barbara/.
- ↑ , Wikidata Q94481265
- ↑ Lewis, John (2019-12-17). "New species named for Dunedin woman" (in en). https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/new-species-named-dunedin-woman.
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