You may have read in a previous newsletter that we have some more butterfly monitoring workshops coming up this spring and summer in the Limestone Coast, Mount Lofty Ranges and western Victoria. Following on from the successful workshops and invertebrate projects running in the region,...
Since the start of the year, some NGT ecologists have been working with Parks Victoria to develop a citizen science program for Woowookarung Regional Park on the eastern edge of Ballarat. The park lies on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung people and is an...
In the February newsletter I wrote a piece on how we’ve noticed swings is sea surface temperatures locally in the South East of SA over the last couple of years (see article here). As we hit send on that newsletter I was not prepared for...
Can you identify your local butterfly species?Could you imagine being part of a national (or even a global) monitoring team?Through NGT's Our World of Insects workshops and excursions we have started training volunteers to identify local butterflies and undertake surveys to gather long-term data. We...
Our popular six-week World of Insects course is underway! Weeks 1 & 2 commenced in November and Weeks 3 & 4 were completed this month. Over 20 participants have braved the heat, the late nights, and the mosquitoes and flies to become immersed in the...
Have you ever wondered what that noise was during a hot summers day, or what that bug-like-thing that lobbed into your car or landed on your leg was? Come along to this series of workshops and you might just find out. This series of workshops...
The Great Southern Bioblitz kicked off in 2020, during the heart of the COVID lock-downs and has continued every year since. Participants from across the Southern Hemisphere will login to the iNaturalist app to record observations of wildlife over the period September 20-23rd. It's a great way...
Participants in the first Bird Identification and Monitoring Course in Halls Gap in April 2021 Four years after the initial work to establish an ongoing citizen scientist monitoring program in the Grampians / Gariwerd National Park, and train forty bird observers, the eighth biannual Great Gariwerd...
A few weeks ago, NGT was given the fantastic news that our application to the SA Government for an Environmental Citizen Science Large Grant had been successful (you can see the full list of recipients here). This funding will allow us to kick off a...
Wood Engraving By Adolf Vollmy Every year in November, Facebook reminds me of perhaps the earliest documented case of a citizen science project. The story goes, that in the early morning of November 12, 1833, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars....
