KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jilly Evans
Vice President
Amira Pharmaceuticals
On being a
scientist and a woman
Jilly Evans is a New Zealander educated in rural New Zealand schools
and then at Auckland University in Cell Biology and Biochemistry. She
received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of British
Columbia in 1978 working with Michael Smith who won the Nobel Prize in
1993 for the development of site-specific mutagenesis. She carried our
post doctoral research in the department of Biochemistry at McGill
University before joining Merck Frosst Canada in 1983 to work on
anti-asthmatic drugs. She took part in the discovery of
5-lipoxygenase-activating protein (FLAP), a target for leukotriene
synthesis inhibitors, and the development of the CysLT1 receptor
antagonist, Singulair. She enjoyed her 4 years as an adjunct professor
in the Department of Biochemistry teaching first year medical students
their lipid biochemistry-particularly the section on leukotrienes and
prostaglandins. Jilly was a lead biochemist in the Merck team that
worked on COX-2 inhibitors, including Vioxx and Arcoxia. She led the
Merck orphan GPCR ligand identification group for 5 years during which
time they solved the identity of ligands for several orphan GPCRs
including the motilin receptor and the CysLT1 and CysLT2 receptors. In
mid 2005 Jilly left Merck after 21 years to become a founding member
and lead biologist of Amira Pharmaceuticals a new biopharmaceutical
company in San Diego. From mid 2005 to the present Amira
Pharmaceuticals has rapidly developed small molecule compounds for
clinical assessment in inflammatory diseases. At home Jilly has two
nearly adult sons, David and Jon, one lovingly-used husband, Bill, and
one nearly neurotic cat, Mugsy.
Supported by Agmardt
Margaret Brimble
Medicinal
Chemistry: An Academic Discipline or a Commercial Reality?
Margaret Brimble holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at The University
of Auckland and is Director of the Medicinal Chemistry degree. She is
President of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry and
was named the 2007 L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Laureate in
Materials Science for the Asia-Pacific region. She held a Royal
Society of NZ James Cook Research Fellowship and was appointed a Member
of the NZ Order of Merit (Queen’s Honour, 2004) and has received the
Novartis Chemistry Award, the inaugural Rosalind Franklin lectureship,
the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Distinguished Chemist Award
and the NZ Institute of Chemistry HortResearch Prize. She leads a team
of 20+ researchers focused on the synthesis of bioactive natural
products (including anti-Helicobacter pylori agents, telomerase
inhibitors and neuroactive shellfish toxins), peptide mimics as
therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative diseases, and glycopeptides as
components for melanoma vaccines. Her team also has expertise in
peptide chemistry, peptide mimic chemistry, the synthesis of
glycopeptides and long peptides using native chemical ligation.
She led the medicinal chemistry team for Neuren Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
whose lead compound Glypromate® is in Phase 3 clinical trials for
the treatment of brain injury resulting from Cardiac Bypass Graft
Surgery (CABG). Her team developed NNZ2566 (peptide mimic) that is
currently in phase 2 trials for traumatic brain injury in partnership
with the US Walter Reid Army Research Institute. Her team also
developed NNZ2591 that has entered phase I clinical trials for
Parkinson’s disease.
Supported by the Maurice Wilkins Centre
Cordelia Fine
Will working
mothers' brains explode? How popular gender science creates glass
ceilings in the mind.
Dr Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist, freelance writer and the
author of A mind of its own: How your brain distorts and deceives. She
studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, followed by an
M.Phil in Criminology at Cambridge University. She was awarded a Ph.D
in Psychology from University College London. Cordelia has held
research positions at Monash University and the Australian National
University and is currently an honorary research fellow at the Centre
for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of
Melbourne. Cordelia lives in Melbourne with her husband and two
young sons.
Supported by the University of Canterbury
SYMPOSIA
1) Science:
women’s business?
Elspeth MacRae
Does
commercialisation corrupt science –
where does Innovation come from?
Dr MacRae is Group Manager
Biomaterials
Research at Scion. Scion’s vision is to
use renewable resources and waste streams to create new materials,
energy
sources and environmentally friendly processes for a sustainable
future. Prior
to joining Scion she was leader for Industrial Biotechnology at
HortResearch.
In earlier incarnations she has been variously a postharvest researcher
in
kiwifruit, explored fundamental questions on sugar manufacture in
plants, and
worked in various non-science jobs. She
has presented at many meetings including science, industrial and
political
fora. She participated also in NZ
delegations, is a member of the MoRST Navigator Network and has
recently
completed a Futures contract for the OECD.
Jane Lancaster
Science-it
doesn't count if it's not used.
I will talk about the crucial role of the private sector in innovation.
CATALYSTR helps innovative companies in the primary industries, food
and biological businesses to build their R&D. Jane has been
involved in R&D in Food, Biotechnology and Agriculture in NZ and
internationally for 30 years.
Jane has been a member of FRST advisory committees between 1990 and
2004. She was a Board member of New Zealand Environmental Risk
Management Authority from 2001-2003. Jane was made a Member of the NZ
Order of Merit (MNZM) in the Queens Birthday Honours 2006.
Her education was at Canterbury University (B.Sc. Hons Ist class) and
she is a professional member and certified practicing agriculturalist
(CPAg) with New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science and elected
professional member of New Zealand Institute of Food Science and
Technology.
Suzi Kerr
Creating an
organisation you want to work for
Suzi Kerr has been Director and Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and
Public Policy Research since November 1998 when she returned to New
Zealand after an extensive period of study and work in the United
States. She graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a PhD in
Economics. Following that she was an Assistant Professor at the
University of Maryland from 1995 through 1998. She has been a visiting
scholar at Resources for the Future (USA) and Victoria University and
in the Joint Center for the Science and Policy of Global Change at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During 2006 she took a
sabbatical combined with maternity leave in Valdivia in the south of
Chile. Her research focuses on the use of market based
instruments to address climate change and water quality issues.
2) Unlocking the
potential in your students: issues for science teaching
Juliet Gerrard
Making Science
Accessible, Fun and Feminine? or Not all Scientists are Bearded,
Balding Middle-Aged Men
In this talk I will outline strategies for enlivening undergraduate
teaching and making science accessible to all students, not just those
that see themselves as on a science career pathway. Since this is
the AWIS conference, I will also touch on some gender issues, and some
gentle tactics for deconstructing the stereotype of the scientist as a
dull, nerdy male.
Prof Juliet Gerrard was educated at Oxford University and moved to New
Zealand in 1993. She spent five years at Crop & Food Research
Ltd before taking up a lectureship in Biochemistry at the University of
Canterbury in 1998. As well as running an active research
programme, including a large amount of postgraduate training, Juliet is
a passionate undergraduate teacher and was voted Best Lecturer on
Campus in an informal UCSA student poll in 2003. In 2004, she
received a National Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary
Teaching.
Paula Jameson
Postgraduate
supervision: improving your
skills
In this presentation I will draw on
personal experiences in supervising a range of students,
emphasising that each student will have different needs and require
different
types of support.
Paula Jameson is currently Professor of
Biology and Head of the School of Biological Sciences at the University
of Canterbury,
having returned to her alma mater after some 24 years,
half of these at the University of Otago and the other half at Massey
University.
Paula has supervised some 20 PhD, 15 MSc and 20 Honours students
whose research
has been in the general area of plant developmental biology. She was a
member
of the Marsden Fund Committee (chairing the EEB panel for three years)
and on
the Independent Biotechnology Advisory Council. She has given numerous
public
talks on issues to do with genetic engineering.
She has also served on the Biological Sciences Panel for both PBRF
rounds
and has given a number of presentations on PBRF Evidence Portfolios. In
2002
Paula was awarded Life Membership of the New Zealand Society of Plant
Physiologists.
Jean Fleming
Mentoring –
how to be a good mentor and how to get the most from your mentor
Jean Fleming returned to the University of Otago in February 2008 after
three years in the prawn and parrot paradise of Brisbane, teaching
reproduction and physiology at Griffith University. She is now a
Professor at Otago’s new Centre of Science Communication, where she
convenes the Masters course on Popularizing Science and continues her
research in the Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology.
Jean developed a lifelong interest in reproductive biology while
completing an MSc and PhD at the University of Otago's Wellington
School of Medicine, in parallel with becoming a mother. Her research on
activin and inhibin gene expression in the Booroola sheep led to the
award of the first Zonta International Medal for Women in Science in
1990. Jean's current research focuses on how repeated ovulation
increases a woman's risk of developing epithelial ovarian cancer, by
contributing to ovarian inclusion cyst formation. She is also
interested in the structure-function relationships between the BRCA1
DNA repair gene and CYP19, the gene coding for aromatase, the enzyme
responsible for oestrogen biosynthesis.
Since her experience as a Commissioner with the New Zealand Royal
Commission on Genetic Modification in 2000-2001, Jean’s interests in
the interaction of science and society have focussed on the perceived
lack of trust in molecular biologists and genetic technologies and on
analysis of the concept that humans shouldn't "play God". She is also
an enthusiastic mentor and promoter of science to young people, has
been a long-term supporter of women in science and convened the first
AWIS conference “Women’s Suffrage Centennial Science Conference” in
1993. Her commitment to taking her science to the community led to the
award of a Suffrage Medal in 1993, a Royal Society of NZ Silver Science
& Technology Medal in 1998 and an ONZM for services to science in
2002.
3) Science and
sustainability
Gillian Wratt
Sustainability
and water management
Currently Chief Executive Cawthron Institute – since March 2006.
Gillian managed New Zealand’s Antarctic programme for ten years, as
Chief Executive of Antarctica New Zealand. Antarctica New Zealand
runs New Zealand’s Scott Base in Antarctica. Gillian also chaired the
international Antarctic managers’ forum – Council of Managers of
National Antarctic Programmes, and was vice chair of the Antarctic
Treaty Committee for Environmental Protection. These roles involved
chairing international meetings in various parts of the world, and
initiating a number of environmental initiatives. Running the NZ
Antarctic Programme involved working closely with the US and Italian
programmes who also have Antarctic bases south of New Zealand. In 2004
she was made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit (MNZM) award for
services to Antarctica.
Between Antarctica New Zealand and Cawthron roles Gillian worked for
the Ministry for the Environment. Her main focus was negotiating
environment agreements alongside New Zealand free trade agreements –
with Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, China and Malaysia.In the
1980s she worked in a range of advisory and management roles in the
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). She was
Convenor of the Crop & Food Research Ltd Establishment Unit during
the transformation of DSIR into Crown Research Institutes.
Gillian has a passion for the New Zealand environment, having spent a
lot of time in/on kayaks, skis, mountain bike and boots.
Caroline Saunders
How
important is sustainability to “brand NZ” in overseas markets?
Professor Caroline Saunders is Director of the Agribusiness and
Economics Research Unit at Lincoln University. She has 25 years
research expertise in the UK and New Zealand. She has over 100
publications specialising on sustainable economic development. Her
current research includes evaluating trade and the environment
including assessment of international markets policies and their impact
on development. This includes developing and using the Lincoln Trade
and Environment Model to assess impacts on trade of various factors
including changing policy, market trends, energy use and greenhouse gas
emissions and the development of new technologies. Research into such
issues as food miles. She has undertaken research for a wider range of
private and public bodies both in NZ and overseas. These include the EU
commission, MAF, MFAT, Treasury, MFE , MED, NZTE, Fonterra, Meat
Industry and various other sector groups.
She is also on the National Science Panel. She is also on the Royal
Society Council and chairs their Social Sciences committee.
Alison Collins
Maximizing
co-benefits - a new paradigm for the way we view, use and protect our
natural capital
Alison works for Landcare Research as Science Leader of a team that
conducts leading research on understanding the complex
inter–relationships that control the response of soils and landscapes
to climatic and human–induced pressures, evaluating current risk, and
offering sustainable land use and natural resource allocation options.
The team has a focus on ecosystem level understanding and providing
opportunities for the future. Prior to working at Landcare Research
Alison held positions with the United States Dept. of Agriculture
(Mississippi), the National Soil Resources Institute (UK), Halcrow
Consulting Engineers, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (UK). Alison has published papers and books in soil
erosion, sustainable land management and integrated approaches to
natural resource use.
4) Hot issues in
social science
Ruth McManus
Sociology
Lecturer, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
Canterbury
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - The fads and frictions of bodily
disposal in a globally informed age.
Ruth McManus is into death and governance and earns a living lecturing
on sociology, death and globalisation at the University of Canterbury.
She is also a member of He Waka Tangata, the new social science
leadership supported by MoRST.
Ronnie Cooper
Barbara
Ehrenreich Revisited
My current research looks into projections of benefit from new
technologies, focussing on two case studies – GM and alternative energy
– and the ways they are positioned and promoted. What kinds of
goals and ideals of improvement drive the development of paradigm-shift
science and technologies, and influence funding, political support and
public acceptance? How are the intended recipients – government,
communities, investors, sectors, interest groups – and their supposed
needs and desires, factored in to technology trajectories? What
roles might women scientists and technologists play in the evolution of
new directions?
(Note from Ronnie – The Barbara Ehrenreich reference is to her article
“Sorry, Sisters, this is not the revolution”, Time Nov 8 1990 – it has
always been a useful reminder to me of the need for reflexivity about
the purpose of what we’re doing – it’s on google search “Ehrenreich
sorry sisters”).
Ronnie’s ancestors are from Hungary and the Taitokerau. Her first
job was working for the Committee on Women in International Women’s
Year 1975. She went on to teach medieval and modern poetry at
Victoria University in the 1980s, was director of an Auckland PR and
marketing design company, wrote a monthly column for Metro magazine for
five years, ran public awareness and sponsorship programmes for DOC,
was Principal Investigator for the Parliamentary Commissioner for the
Environment from 1997 to 2004, and is now working towards her PhD in
Political Science at Canterbury.
Lesley Patterson
Sociology
Programme, School of People, Environment and Planning
Massey
University
Who does what when baby arrives? Parents accounts of work in the first
year of their first child’s life
Increased participation by mothers (and especially mothers with young
children) in paid work has been one of the most marked social changes
of the last twenty years. This paper explores how first time mothers
and fathers in New Zealand talk about their paid working lives, both
before and after the arrival of their first child. Preliminary results
based on interviews from the second year of an on-going five year study
suggest that despite egalitarian attitudes to paid and unpaid work,
traditional gendered work patterns are often quite quickly adopted by
first-time parents. While this division of labour is typically agreed
between new parents, a discourse analysis of interview data suggests
that women and men have quite different ways of accounting for who does
what and when during the first year of their first child’s life.
Dr Lesley Patterson is a sociologist based on Massey University’s
Wellington campus. Her research interests include the contemporary
experience of family life, gender and work, and narrative research
methodologies. Lesley is currently working on two qualitative
longitudinal projects, one exploring low-income lone mothers’
experience of combining paid and unpaid work, and the other exploring
how new parents negotiate the division of labour within their
households.
5) The Magic of
Science I – tasters of research across the sciences
Elaine Rush
What's love got
to do with it?
Professor Elaine Rush has been involved in health and education for all
her working career. Gaining both MSc and PhD from the University of
Auckland she has research expertise in the measurement of body
composition, energy expenditure, physical activity, nutrition and risk
factors for disease. A particular interest in ethnic differences
particularly among Maori, Pacific Island, European and Indian
populations in New Zealand has led to over 45 peer-reviewed
publications. Elaine also serves on the Councils of a number of
nutrition and obesity organisations and is the New Zealand
representative for the International Association for the Study of
Obesity, IASO. Her research projects include a large diabetes
prevention strategy, the health and growth of children whose mother’s
had gestational diabetes and the longitudinal Pacific Island Family
study which is tracking over 1000 Pacific children from birth.
Phoebe Macrae
The Science of
Swallowing
Swallowing requires precise coordination of 32 pairs of muscles and 5
cranial nerves in less than 1 second. We carry out this complex
activity approximately once every 2 minutes, generally with no
conscious awareness of the task. Thus, swallowing and swallowing
disorders (dysphagia) provide a fascinating area for research. The
University of Canterbury Swallowing Rehabilitation Research Laboratory
at the Van der Veer Institute investigates the neural control of this
immensely intricate task. Understanding neural control mechanisms will
provide insights into how swallowing can be disrupted and how
rehabilitation can best facilitate neural recovery. The laboratory also
investigates the effects of commonly prescribed rehabilitation
techniques on swallowing neural control. This presentation will provide
an overview of the fascinating area of swallowing neurophysiology and
summarise the research activities currently underway at the Swallowing
Rehabilitation Research Laboratory at the Van der Veer Institute.
Phoebe Macrae is a PhD candidate through the University of Canterbury’s
Department of Communication Disorders. She graduated with her Bachelors
degree in 2003 and worked as a speech and language therapist for 3
years before returning for post graduate study in 2007. Her PhD
research, being carried out at the Van der Veer Institute for
Parkinsons and Brain Research, is on the neural control mechanisms for
swallowing, and how these are influenced by current dysphagia
(swallowing impairment) rehabilitation techniques.
Victoria Metcalf
Polar 'Canaries'-
Understanding adaptive processes using Antarctic marine animals
Dr. Victoria Metcalf is a Research Fellow within the School of
Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury. She has made six trips
to the Antarctic, for research purposes or moonlighting as a cruise
director on ecotourism ships. Her current research interests centre on
investigating the functional genetics of Antarctic marine invertebrates
and fish to learn more about how they have adapted to their environment
and their prospects in the future given environmental change. Victoria
has won a number of prestigious awards, including the ZONTA Science
Award for the top all-round early-mid career woman scientist in New
Zealand.
6) The Magic of
Science II – tasters of research across the sciences
Carolyn Lister
The science
behind eating “the Colour Way”
Dr. Carolyn Lister is part of the Nutrition & Health Group at the
New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research. She obtained
her PhD on the biochemical basis of apple colour from the University of
Canterbury in 1994. Since 1998 her group’s research has turned to
looking at the human health benefits of plant pigments. Carolyn
has a strong interest in communicating science to the community, and
has recently been working with a chef to provide health eating seminars
to cancer support groups. She balances writing science funding
grants with obtaining funding for the Christchurch Multiple Birth Club
and raising toddler twins.
Liz Carpenter
Science with a
Rural Focus: Using
immunology to add-value to the humble farm animal
Dr Liz Carpenter began her working career
as a high school teacher, but her love of science and ‘wanting to learn
more’
steered her into a PhD, in Immunology and vaccine development.
Following PhD
studies in Canberra, Australia,
Liz worked in university labs in NZ and Scotland,
and in research institutes in Kenya
and NZ. She currently heads a research
team at AgResearch, Ruakura (Hamilton) where the focus is to develop
new dairy
milk products to add value to raw milk, on-farm. In addition, other
research
projects involve other farm animals, e.g. chickens and sheep. This
diverse
research career has given Liz a wealth of experiences that she never
anticipated while day-dreaming at school – “I could never say my job is
boring”.
Kim Currie
The South West
Pacific Ocean - a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide
Kim Currie is a scientist for NIWA working in marine carbon cycle
research. Kim works collaboratively with chemists, biologists,
physicists and geologists in order to investigate the role of the ocean
in the global carbon cycle. This talk will focus on factors
affecting uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the South West
Pacific Ocean and the
waters around New Zealand.
7) Mana Wahine
(The Magic of Science III)
Amanda Black
Contamination
issues linked to metals in the New Zealand environment
Amanda Black is currently undertaking a PhD in soil and environmental
chemistry at Lincoln University. Amanda specialises environmental
chemistry with an emphasis on metals and biogeochemical
processes. She obtained her B.Sc in Geology and M.Sc in
Environmental Science from the University of Otago. Since
graduating in 2000 she has worked as an Environmental Scientist at a
private research and consulting company based in Christchurch, as a
Research Fellow at the University of Otago, and a Compliance and
Contaminated Sites Officer at the Otago Regional Council. Amanda is
originally from Whakatane and is of Tuhoe, Whakatohea and
Whanau-a-apanui and European/Pakeha descent.
Cheri van
Schravendijk
Once were
scientists - kaitiakitanga mo te kiekie (Freycinetia banksii)
Cheri (AKA "Chuckie") van Schravendijk - Te Ati-Haunui-a-Paparangi,
Ngati Apa, Pakeha and Dutch descent. Mother of three future scientists
- Kees (6), Lyani (4 1/2) and Chantelle (3). Graduated from Lincoln
University (2005) with a Bachelor of Environmental Management, and
Graduate Certificate (Resource Studies). MSc thesis topic -
Kaitiakitanga mo te kiekie/ Sustainable Harvest of Freycinetia banksii;
supervisors: Sue Scheele and Professor Dave Kelly (University of
Canterbury).
Pauline Harris
Neutrinos, Gamma
Ray Bursts and Motherhood
Tihei Mauriora
Ko Te Ara a Paikea te maunga.
Ko Kopu Awhara te awa.
Ko Takitimu te waka.
Ko Rongomaiwahine, Rakaipaka, Ngati Kahungunu nga iwi.
Ko Ihaka Whaanga raua ko Te Paea Onepoto Taruke oku tupuna.
Ko Pauline Harris ahau.
My name is Pauline Harris, I am a PhD student at the University of
Canterbury, in the department of Physics and Astronomy. I first thought
of becoming an astrophysicist when I was around 10 or 11 years of age.
I had extremely supportive parents with my mother, Jean always saying
that I could achieve anything I wanted. She was and still is a totally
devoted mother and I accredit a great deal of my success to her. I have
always been fascinated with the Universe and although along the way I
have been distracted by solid state physics, atmosheric physics and
Mataauranga Maori, I have always come back to my fascination with the
Universe, how it formed and what is out there. In this presentation
I'll talk about some of my research which used the Radio Ice Cherenkov
experiment (RICE), located at the South Pole and is designed to detect
high energy neutrino's above 10PeV. Gamma Ray Bursts and Active
Galactic nuclei are proposed cites for high energy neutrinos and are
the most powerful objects observed in the Unverse. I'll take you
through a journey on the construction and use of RICE and how these
elusive particles are produced in these energetic phenomenon. The later
part of the talk will be about my personal experiences on motherhood
and the PhD.
8) Communicating
science to the New Zealand public
Jenni Adams
What do you say when a child asks
why it's colder in winter?
Physics is about understanding the world around us from the changing of
the seasons and the colour of the sky to the structure of matter and
the Universe itself.
This year it is one hundred years since Ernest Rutherford received his
Nobel Prize for his work on the disintegration of the elements and his
investigation into the structure of the atom. Rutherford found that
atoms are mostly empty space. The paper that this is printed on is a
collection of atoms and so mostly empty space.
Why can’t we see though it then? From quarks to the cosmos: this talk
will take you on a modern journey from Rutherford’s research area of
the structure of matter, to Beatrice Tinsley’s on the structure of the
Universe itself, with a few detours to make sure you give your children
complete answers to their questions.
Dr Jenni Adams is a senior lecturer in the Physics and Astronomy
Department at the University of Canterbury, returning to her original
alma mater after six years in Europe. Her Phd was at Oxford, supported
by a Rhodes Scholarship, followed by post-doctoral research in Uppsala
in Sweden. Currently the president of the New Zealand Institute of
Physics she is passionate about communicating the excitement of a
physical understanding of the phenomena around us.
Alison Campbell
Café
Scientifique: public conversations about science
As a Biology lecturer at the University of Waikato, an ex-secondary
school teacher, and with research interests in science education,
Alison has strong links with both the secondary and tertiary education
systems. She is the team leader, and a writer, for the highly
successful Evolution for Teaching website, and also writes the Bioblog
for senior biology students. Alison works closely with teachers and
students, giving curriculum-focused presentations for senior Biology
students, running information evenings for Waikato/BoP teachers, and
working with Scholarship students to help them develop critical
thinking skills in preparation for their exams. She also organises and
presents at the extremely popular Hamilton branch of Cafe Scientifique,
and her skills in presenting science to the community have been
recognised with the 2005 NZAS Science Communicator Award and the 2007
inaugural KuDos Science Communicator Award.
Carol Diebel
Can a science
focussed exhibition be delivered to a general audience that is popular,
accurate, bicultural, fun, engaging, inspiring and curriculum linked?
Carol is currently Te Papa's Director of the Natural
Environment/Papatuanuku where she heads a diverse staff of about 35
whose work is focused on scientific research, management of the
national natural history collections and providing public outreach
about their research and the collections through exhibitions,
galleries, talks and special projects. She has a Ph D in Biological
Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Programme in Oceanography, and
worked as a research scientist for over 20 years before she
transitioned into the museum sector about 8 happy years ago.
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