CitSciOzOnline: Innovation in Citizen Science - Dr. Jasmin Packer & Guests
Channel: Australian Citizen Science Association
Date: 2020-11-01

Dr. Jasmin Packer - Fungimap
Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute 


Can you imagine a world where volunteers kick-start campaigns that change the way we protect nature? Growing up in a farming family along Adelaide’s River Torrens floodplains, fired Jasmin’s passion to discover better ways to protect nature. Explore how South Australia’s roots in discovery and equity are driving innovation by citizen scientists with scientists – and what we can learn from the Inspire. Innovate. Impact. principles underpinning these projects.

Dr. Jasmin Packer is a Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute, Vice President of Fungimap Inc., Australia’s national NGO for our native fungi, and Co-Founder of iBandi, a creative little pop-up citizen science project designed for endangered bandicoots in novel habitats. Together with Ph.D. Candidate, Matt Bowie, she is also discovering new ways to engage citizen scientists as Co-Convener of the University of Adelaide’s Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series. But most of all, Jasmin is passionate about finding better ways to protect our most threatened communities and species.

Innovating for a better world: kick-starting a conversation on principles for innovation in citizen science

With special guests:
Wendy Warren (iBandi, Environment Institute)
Rosalie & Robert Lawrence (Wild Orchid Watch)