Barbara J. Anderson | |
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 Anderson in 2024 | |
| 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]
Anderson graduated with a PhD in botany from the University of Otago, Dunedin, in 2006. [3]
Beginning in 2015, Anderson co-ordinated a citizen science project, Ahi Pepe MothNet, which encouraged 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]
As of 2021 Anderson was the President of The Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences. [8]
IN 2019 Anderson was a Royal Society Rutherford Discovery Fellow based at Otago Museum [9] working with the museum's insect collection.
In 2019 Anderson had the New Zealand endemic moth species Ichneutica barbara named in her honour. [10] [11]
