Comments for centreforsciencecommunication.com

Comment on A Frog Blog by Wu Peng

Wu Peng — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:47:47 +0000

haha, Thank you Kim!! That is a good idea! I will invite you to write the stories for me

Comment on A Frog Blog by Kimberley

Kimberley — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:20:41 +0000

Nice film! Very informative, you should do a series on frogs and look at the genetics next – they’re also really interesting.

Comment on Hybrids and Taxonomy by Glen Webber - NZ birding pictures.

Glen Webber - NZ birding pictures. — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:27:09 +0000

Great article Bill. Enjoyed reading it a lot.

For the Norfolk Island Boobook (Morepork) they were forced to try and save the genes rather than the species; after the population dropped to a single female bird. They imported Ruru from NZ. Not sure how successful thats been. Hopefully we won’t find ourselves in the same position with Kaki.

Cheers,
Glen.

Comment on Sir Paul Callaghan by Jean Fleming

Jean Fleming — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:23:11 +0000

A fitting tribute to an amazing communicator. Thank you Bill. Sir Paul will be sorely missed, at a time when the new Ministry of Everything including Science and Research, doesn’t even have those words in its title…

Comment on The phosphate crisis? by Lemuel

Lemuel — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:01:56 +0000

Great post! It certainly seems that the importance of phosphate is unknown to many. Although it didn’t sneak past the attention of Nazi Germany…

The phosphate supply to Britain, New Zealand and Australia was deemed so crucial to the war effort that in 1940 two German ships attacked the port facilities at Nauru. These were the first shots fired on land in the Pacific War, a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. That is a pretty good testimony of how vital phosphate is!

Comment on The phosphate crisis? by Robert Guthrie

Robert Guthrie — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:39:55 +0000

Interesting article, I wish I could see who authored it.

Comment on Campbell Island Part One by Kimberley

Kimberley — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:31:26 +0000

Wow, fantastic photographs – I especially like the Campbell Island Snipe one, you’re very lucky to have seen one! The Elephant Seal picture reminds me of a story that my supervisor in Hamilton told me about a colleague who stepped (/fell) into an Elephant Seal ‘wallow’ and was forced to stand down wind for a couple of weeks. Makes me wonder how many wayward tourists also suffer the same fate!

Comment on The Galaxiid story by SueV

SueV — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:29:10 +0000

Great blog! I have really enjoyed reading every post so far. Yes, our native fish have it tough. If only those who catch the “whitebait” would comprehend the impact that every bite has the remaining, dwindling, galaxiid numbers. What would our river systems look like if we were to introduce a ‘last trout’ policy, like the one for white tailed deer? Fantastic story, look forward to reading more.

Comment on The Adventure of Space by rc helicopters

rc helicopters — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:39:04 +0000

Glad to visit this blog, keep it going.