Ko Motu-Pōhue te māunga Ko Te Ara a Kiwa te moana Ko Tākitimu te waka Ko Te Rau Aroha te marae Ko Kāi Tahu te iwi Ko Bethany tōku ingoa Bethany is a passionate, energetic, community-minded young leader. Her interest in STEM and her passion for the environment overlap...
Ben is a Year 13 student at Otago Boys’ High School. In 2019, Ben attended the week-long BLAKE Inspire programme. He was also invited to meet Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, who was visiting New Zealand in 2019, to raise awareness about...
Tom is Head of Natural Sciences at Auckland Museum, leading the team of curators and collections staff that care for the museum’s fauna and flora collections, and the team records and interprets the biodiversity of Aotearoa New Zealand and the regional Pacific. He...
Wendy is a phycologist, a scientist specialising in the study of marine macroalgae or rimurimu. She is a member of the Joint Graduate School in Coastal and Marine Science at the University of Auckland, and a principal scientist at NIWA, based in Wellington. She has...
Roberta is a macroalgal taxonomist based at NIWA in Wellington. She has worked on the New Zealand macroalgae for the last 15 years discovering many new genera and species. Roberta became interested in algal taxonomy in Italy, studying Mediterranean macroalgae and for...
