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Two people kneel with an assortment of equipment – bags, camera, notebooks – used for field work

Gear necessities: what our botanists take on their field trips

Ever wondered what curators take with them when they go out on the field (or in the mountains, or down in the depths of the oceans)? Let’s begin with botanists Lara Shepherd and Leon Perrie.Read more

2024-02-20
By: Lara Shepherd and Leon Perrie
On: 20 Feb 2024
In: Behind the scenes, Science
Heidi Meudt taking some close-up photos of a large plant of Myosotis macrantha in the Matiri Range, Kahurangi National Park. Photo by Ant Kusabs @ Te Papa. SP106587

Searching in needles and haystacks for forget-me-nots

Read about Botanists Heidi Meudt and Antony Kusabs epic 14-day forget-me-not field work adventure. Highlights include solving a plant identification mystery and finding a plant that hadn’t been collected in almost a century.Read more

2018-08-20
By: Heidi Meudt
On: 20 Aug 2018
In: Science

Pukeokaoka / Jacky Lee Island – 1932 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 7)

Te Papa’s curator of terrestrial vertebrates Dr Colin Miskelly is researching the life and work of the Canterbury naturalist Edgar Stead (1881-1949). This includes re-taking Stead’s photos from the same photo-point, taking other images to illustrate his diaries, and describing how the ecology and wildlife of each of 10 islandsRead more

2012-03-27
By: Colin Miskelly
On: 27 Mar 2012
In: Science

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