Barbara Jane Anderson is a New Zealand ecologist.
Education
Anderson graduated with a PhD in botany from the
University of Otago
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, Dunedin, in 2006.
Research and career
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. 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
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–English guide to New Zealand moths was published in 2018. 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.
As of 2021 Anderson was the President of The Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences.
IN 2019 Anderson was a Royal Society Rutherford Discovery Fellow based at
Otago Museum
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working with the museum's insect collection.
Notable achievements
In 2019, the New Zealand endemic moth species ''
Ichneutica barbara'' was named in Anderson's honour.
External links
Ahi Pepe MothNet
References
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21st-century New Zealand women scientists
21st-century New Zealand scientists
University of Otago alumni
New Zealand science communicators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Women ecologists