ecology meets technology scanz 2013
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Presentation to SCANZ 2013 3rd Nature - Hui and Symposium: "We know we have built a civilisation which is unsustainable. How are we developing today the new culture that will allow us to create a sustainable civilisation?" — Roger Malina, Astrophysicist and Editor of Leonardo Presentations and projects highlighted cross cultural interchange and/or computing and electronics projects and/or the hybrid arts.TRANSCRIPT
Ecology meets Technology
Anne Scott and Elise Smith
Eudyptula minor
Korora
Little Blue Penguin
Generational Amnesia
Community data is valuable
Are your penguins going missing?
Can you help us build the picture of penguin whereabouts and survival in Taranaki?
We need a baseline to work from.
Any penguin sightings, historical information on their whereabouts, or photographs, can be shared by emailing ‘Taranaki Penguins’ or by using the online map at www.seasense.org.nz
Technology provides connectivity
Online data gathering and analysis
Visualise data from certain dates
Decide where to use scarce resources2011
November 2012 footprints of parents returning to the nests
Monitoring of penguin nests
The interface where ecology meets technology
Acknowledgements
• Andrew Hornblow – Bright Sparks
• MAIN Trust NZ – www.main.net.nz
• Mark Meyburg http://taranakipenguins.blogspot.co.nz/
• Nga Motu Marine Reserve Society Inc. www.seasense.org.nz
• Puke Ariki http://www.pukeariki.com/