Citizen Science Show

Citizen Science Show
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Welcome to the Citizen Science Show, a place to share stories of purpose about ecology. We explore the diverse activities of passionate people who record observations, gather empirical evidence and use technology to uncover scientific proof for positive social, cultural and political change. We hope that these stories will inspire and encourage you to take action and become a Citizen Scientist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 48m ago

    #204 TAFE NSW's Nick Whalan-Daniels on AR Welding, AI and the Future of Advanced Manufacturing

    Recorded live in the Citizen Science Show podcast booth at the Hunter Science Festival, Dani sits down with Nick Whalan-Daniels, Head Teacher for the TAFE NSW Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at Tighes Hill, to talk about a stand packed with augmented reality welding, robotics and renewable energy demonstrations. Nick explains how the new centre is training the Hunter's next generation of advanced manufacturing workers, why the region's shift away from coal is creating fresh skills gaps in renewable energy, and how "micro skills" and "micro credentials" are opening trade pathways to people who've never picked up a tool. Plus, why Nick thinks AI is a tradesperson's friend, not their replacement. More Information https://www.tafensw.edu.au/specialty-schools/manufacturing-centres-of-excellence About the Hunter Science Festival 2026 https://newcastlemuseum.com.au/what-s-on/current-events/national-science-week-hunter-science-festival https://www.hish.org.au/ If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@citizenscienceshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #204 TAFE NSW's Nick Whalan-Daniels on AR Welding, AI and the Future of Advanced Manufacturing

  2. 1h ago

    #203 How Newcastle Library and Museum is Turning Preschoolers into Citizen Scientists with Karen Eastwood

    Recorded live in the Citizen Science Show podcast booth at the Hunter Science Festival, Dani sits down with Karen Eastwood, Program Delivery Officer for Newcastle Museum and Library, to talk about the library's new Little Bang Discovery Club, a hands on program turning preschoolers into "little scientists" (and their parents into "lab assistants"). Karen shares what's inside the program's take home discovery box, how the four week journey builds to a mini science fair, and how Newcastle Museum and Library is reshaping what a library can be, from a citizen science corner to borrowable fossil kits and a chill out zone stocked with genuine dinosaur poo. More Information https://newcastlelibraries.com.au/ About the Hunter Science Festival 2026 https://newcastlemuseum.com.au/what-s-on/current-events/national-science-week-hunter-science-festival https://www.hish.org.au/ If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@citizenscienceshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #203 How Newcastle Library and Museum is Turning Preschoolers into Citizen Scientists with Karen Eastwood

  3. 16h ago

    #202 Fresh Honey, Hard Science: Inside the Fight to Save Australia's Bees with Heather Wightman

    Recorded live in the Citizen Science Show podcast booth at the Hunter Science Festival, Dani sits down with Heather Wightman, biosecurity officer for the Hunter Valley Amateur Beekeepers, to find out about a gold medal winning Australian invention putting fresh, spin-your-own honey on the kitchen bench, and what's changed for beekeepers since Varroa mite arrived in Australia. Heather explains how a new mite strain resistant to standard treatments is spreading, what it could mean for pollination and our food supply, and how everyday beekeepers have quietly become citizen scientists, monitoring their hives every month just to keep their bees alive. More Information https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063618307697 https://hunter-valley-amateur-beekeepers.org.au/ About the Hunter Science Festival 2026 https://newcastlemuseum.com.au/what-s-on/current-events/national-science-week-hunter-science-festival https://www.hish.org.au/ If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@citizenscienceshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #202 Fresh Honey, Hard Science: Inside the Fight to Save Australia's Bees with Heather Wightman

  4. 2d ago

    #199 Polar Blast and Yachts for Science. Mapping the ocean floor with Dr Paige Maroni

    Ever wondered how you could contribute to ocean science without being a scientist yourself? In this episode, we speak with Dr Paige Maroni, founder of the Polar Blast Project, about how private yacht owners, captains and crews around the world are helping scientists access some of the most remote and least understood marine environments on Earth. From automated water samplers to remotely operated vehicles surveying the Antarctic seafloor, Paige reveals just how many ways an ordinary vessel, and an ordinary person, can help fill in the map of our unexplored oceans. We also dig into the incredible biodiversity hiding beneath the polar ice, a newly documented squid species, and why protecting these fragile ecosystems is a race against time. More Information Yachts for Science: https://www.yachtsforscience.com/ Polar BLAST: https://www.polarblast.org/ DONATE to Polar BLAST: https://giving.uwa.edu.au/online-giving?id=f6f8e736-5885-4772-ae45-9c98e6105894 Dr Paige Maroni: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/paige-maroni/ A recent short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIppptKE58 If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@citizenscienceshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #199 Polar Blast and Yachts for Science. Mapping the ocean floor with Dr Paige Maroni

  5. Sep 8

    #201 The Rainforests of the Ocean: Natalie Coy on Seagrass, Seeds and the Fight to Save Posidonia Australis

    Beneath the waves, one of the ocean's most important ecosystems is hiding in plain sight. In this episode, Sarah talks with Natalie Coy, a PhD candidate and founder of the citizen science project Seeds of the Sea, about Posidonia australis, an endangered, flowering seagrass found only in Australia, and home to a single clone in WA stretching 180 kilometres, making it the largest known organism on Earth. Natalie explains why seagrass meadows matter so much for carbon storage, coastline protection and marine nurseries, why NSW's Posidonia populations behave so differently to WA's, and what's driving the species' decline, from swing moorings to stormwater runoff. She also shares how everyday Australians can help simply by photographing seagrass they spot while diving, boating or walking the beach, and her hope for a future of small, community-led restoration projects up and down the coast. More Information https://www.seedsofthesea.org/ https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/cmsi/research-projects/Marine-Environmental-Sustainability/seeds-of-the-sea If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@citizenscienceshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #201 The Rainforests of the Ocean: Natalie Coy on Seagrass, Seeds and the Fight to Save Posidonia Australis

  6. Aug 25

    #198 The Paediatrician Who Didn't Wait: Dr Louise Woodward and the Fight for Clean Air Over Darwin

    What's really in the air over Darwin, and why wasn't anyone measuring it? In this episode, Dani talks with Dr Louise Woodward, a Darwin paediatrician and founder of CHANT (Community Healthy Air Northern Territory), Australia's first community-led air quality monitoring project. Louise explains how a Senate inquiry into a major gas industry expansion in Darwin Harbour revealed the Northern Territory wasn't monitoring for toxic chemicals like benzene at all, and how her community responded by crowdfunding over $130,000 to buy their own mobile air monitor. The conversation covers the real health risks of living near gas processing facilities, why "natural gas" isn't the safe, clean option it's marketed as, and how CHANT's advocacy has already led to formal prosecution over misreported emissions, plus what Louise sees as reason for real hope in the twilight of the fossil fuel era. More Information https://www.healthyairnt.au/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61591465550473 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/nt-epa-prosecutes-gas-company-inpex/106998434 If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #198 The Paediatrician Who Didn't Wait: Dr Louise Woodward and the Fight for Clean Air Over Darwin

  7. Aug 19

    #194 Listening to the Land: How Regenerative Farmer Martin Royds Is Rewriting the Rules of Agriculture

    What is the Australian landscape trying to tell us, and are we actually listening? In this episode, host John Marsh sits down with regenerative farmer Martin Royds of Jillamatong, near Braidwood, NSW, to explore a philosophy built over four decades: reading weeds, soil and water as feedback rather than problems to be sprayed away. Martin shares how a simple handful of urea outperforms a toxic, decades-old herbicide, why his nutrient-dense grass-finished beef was once rejected by a supermarket for having the "wrong" coloured fat, and the remarkable story of senior fast food executives travelling from the United States to see his water-positive farming system firsthand. The conversation ranges from Indigenous knowledge and the hidden marketing history behind "grain-fed" beef, to Sydney's multi-billion-dollar water infrastructure debate, and closes with Martin's simple advice for anyone, farmer or city dweller, wanting to reconnect with the living systems around them. More Information Jillamatong: https://jillamatong.com.au/ Soils for Life interview: https://soilsforlife.org.au/the-jillamatong-story/ Australian Museum Interview: https://australian.museum/learn/climate-change/climate-solutions/future-now-makers/green-solutions/ The Mulloon Institute: https://mullooninstitute.org/2019/11/06/braidwoods-secret-water-supply-waiting-in-weir/ Soils for Life PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/making-decisions-in-the-dry-with-martin-royds/id1582582411?i=1000709860943 The Land Article: https://www.theland.com.au/story/9179532/drought-resilience-lessons-from-aussie-farmers/ Charlie Arnott Podcast Episode: https://charliearnott.com.au/s2-e3-martin-royd/ ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2010-09-21/braidwood-farmer-looks-to-diversification/6195980 Landcare: https://landcarensw.org.au/landcarers-holistic-management-approach-is-paying-dividends-during-drought/ Matters Journal: https://mattersjournal.com/stories/regenerative-agriculture QPRC ‘Region’: https://region.com.au/braidwoods-secret-water-supply-waiting-in-weir/335126/  If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #194 Listening to the Land: How Regenerative Farmer Martin Royds Is Rewriting the Rules of Agriculture

  8. Aug 18

    #197 Sharing is Caring: Dr Jessie Oliver on where to share and find Citizen Science

    It's National Science Week, and Dani welcomes back a familiar face: Dr Jessie Oliver, Technical Manager of SciStarter Australia, the local home for finding and sharing citizen science projects across the country. Jessie walks through what's currently on the platform, from backyard biodiversity spotting on iNaturalist to hyperlocal air-quality monitoring in Tasmania, and explains why physics-based projects remain rare while health and technology projects are on the rise. She also opens up about her background in tech design research, why so many people feel discouraged by "unfriendly" citizen science apps, and why that's rarely their fault. Plus: how project organisers, big or small, can get their own citizen science projects listed on SciStarter Australia, and why Jessie is personally offering to help anyone who gets stuck. Event details Hunter Science Festival, Newcastle Museum, Sunday 23 August 2026. Free entry. Presented by the Hunter Innovation and Science Hub (HISH) and the City of Newcastle, supported by the Australian Government. https://newcastlemuseum.com.au/ More Information https://www.scistarteraustralia.au/ If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review and share this show with your friends. It really helps us to reach more citizen scientists, like you. Contact the Show We are always looking for more guests to tell us about interesting citizen science projects, research and events. You can email us at: info@citizenscienceshow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #197 Sharing is Caring: Dr Jessie Oliver on where to share and find Citizen Science
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Welcome to the Citizen Science Show, a place to share stories of purpose about ecology. We explore the diverse activities of passionate people who record observations, gather empirical evidence and use technology to uncover scientific proof for positive social, cultural and political change. We hope that these stories will inspire and encourage you to take action and become a Citizen Scientist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Citizen Science Show
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    199
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Citizen Science Show
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