Barbara Anderson (scientist)
Barbara J. Anderson | |
|---|---|
| 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[edit]
Anderson graduated with a PhD in botany from the University of Otago, Dunedin, in 2006.[3]
Research and career[edit]
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[edit]
In 2019 Anderson had the New Zealand endemic moth species Ichneutica barbara named in her honour.[10][11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tea bag research brewing". Otago Daily Times Online News. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Moths maligned and misunderstood". Stuff. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ 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". Radio New Zealand. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "New moth resource merges science and a Māori worldview". Māori Television. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Meet the team". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Students to spread wings on trip of a lifetime, leaving Dunedin for Canada for moth presentation". TVNZ. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "2021 Council". otago-institute.org. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ "A Moth Named Barbara". Otago Museum. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Robert J. B. Hoare (9 December 2019). "Noctuinae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) part 2: Nivetica, Ichneutica" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 80. Illustrator: Birgit E. Rhode: 1–455. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.80. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q94481265. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2021.
- ^ Lewis, John (17 December 2019). "New species named for Dunedin woman". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
