Anke Maria Hoefer ‘Frogwatch Successfully Marrying Citizen Science and Community Engagement Since 2002’

Anke Maria, from the ACT and Regional Frogwatch Program, will introduce you to the program that engages hundreds of volunteers each year. The data collected feeds into a wide range of frog projects, including frog census, climate change investigations and frog habitat studies. 

Abstract

This talk will introduce you to the world of Frogwatch. The program engages hundreds of volunteers each year to put on their boots, get out their torches and monitor wetlands and creeks in the name of frogs.

The data collected feeds into a wide range of froggy projects, such as the annual Frog Census, climate change investigations and frog-habitat studies, to name just a few.  You will learn how to identify the most common frog species in the ACT, just in time for the next breeding cycle, and can finally ask all these frog related questions that you have had on your mind for years!!

Biography

Anke Maria Hoefer has been training volunteers how to eavesdrop on frogs since 2011. She is a great advocate for Citizen Science, stewardship and above and beyond all, frogs. She single-handedly coordinates the ACT and Region Frogwatch Program. In her previous life she has been a physiologist, morphologist and behavioural ecologist.