Alex Chapman was for many years a Research Scientist at the Western Australian Herbarium in DBCA’s Science and Conservation Division managing the online publications and bioinformatics group there. He is a past editor of WA’s journal of systematic botany – Nuytsia and lectured in biodiversity informatics for the School of Natural Sciences at Edith Cowan University.

In this episode, Alex emphasises the importance of Citizen Science. He explains how you can get involved by finding a local project, joining up and contributing data.

More Information:

https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/

https://citizenscience.org.au/acsa-regional-chapters/acsa-wa/

https://www.freonet.net/

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