Bio-diversity and Bio-security Seminar

Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research hosted a graduate seminar for PhD and Masters students to present their research findings to the science community.  There were ten presenters in all, who spoke on a diverse range of scientific topics ranging from weaponery in beetles to light pollution in cities.  

There was a question and answer session after each speaker, and one of the interesting things was the number of times the phrases 'seemingly' or 'seemingly not' were used.  It was a timely reminder to me of the evidence based way of thinking which is inherent in scientific discussion and discourse.

A small selection of the presentations.