Alison Patricia BallanceMNZM is a New Zealand zoologist,author,film-maker and radio producer. Ballance has written more than thirty books,filmed wildlife documentaries,and produced and presented radio and podcasts on a wide range of subjects relating to science and the natural world. In 2017,Ballance was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to natural history,filmmaking and broadcasting.
From October 1990 to October 2008 Ballance was producer of natural history documentaries for Natural History New Zealand in Dunedin. She then produced and hosted Our Changing World,the weekly science and environmental radio programme of Radio New Zealand.[6] She retired from Radio New Zealand in 2021.[5][7] Ballance produced a number of podcasts,including Voice of the Iceberg,Voices from Antarctica,The Science Of... podcast series,the KākāpōFiles and Voice of the Kākāpō podcast series,and the International Year of the Periodic Table chemistry podcast Elemental.[6]
In 2013 Ballance was part of an expedition to Three Kings Islands with a team from NIWA,Te Papa museum,and the University of Queensland.[8][9] Ballance reported on the expedition for Our Changing World,and also wrote the expedition blog.[9] She had earlier been a diver and science communicator on the 2011 Kermadec Biodiscovery expedition.[10]
Honours and awards
In the 2017 New Year Honours,Ballance was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to natural history,filmmaking and broadcasting.[11] Other awards Ballance has won include:
Nonfiction Shortlist for Hoki at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards 1998[12]
Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize 2011 for Kakapo:Rescued from the brink of extinction[13][14]
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