Barbara Anderson (scientist)

Barbara Jane Anderson is a New Zealand ecologist.[1][2]

Barbara J. Anderson
Alma materUniversity of Otago (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsEcology
ThesisSomething to do with community structure: the influence of sampling and analysis on measures of community structure (2006)

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
  1. "Tea bag research brewing". Otago Daily Times Online News. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  2. "Moths maligned and misunderstood". Stuff. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. "Barbara Anderson: moths and citizen science". Radio New Zealand. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  5. "New moth resource merges science and a Māori worldview". Māori Television. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  6. "Meet the team". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  7. "Students to spread wings on trip of a lifetime, leaving Dunedin for Canada for moth presentation". TVNZ. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  8. "2021 Council". otago-institute.org. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  9. "A Moth Named Barbara". Otago Museum. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  10. Robert J. B. Hoare (9 December 2019). Illustrator: Birgit E. Rhode. "Noctuinae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) part 2: Nivetica, Ichneutica" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 80: 1–455. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.80. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q94481265. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2021.
  11. Lewis, John (17 December 2019). "New species named for Dunedin woman". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 15 December 2020.

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