27 Aug 2016 – Castlemaine Community Science Project: Part 2

Posted on 15 August, 2016 by Connecting Country

Back in March 2016, researchers from the University of Melbourne encouraged local residents from Castlemaine and surrounds to get involved in an ecological assessment of a site at 21 Reckleben St (CLICK HERE to see the earlier blog). The question being posed by the researchers is ‘can human and natural development happen in a manner that is mutually beneficial?’.

One of the researchers has asked us to spread the word about the next set of surveys at the site. She writes:

Photo from Reckleben St Survey Facebook page

I’m Andreanne Doyon, a researcher at the University of Melbourne, writing to you on behalf of Dominique Hes. We are currently working with Geoff Crosby on a development at 21 Reckelben St, Castlemaine, which we are designing to the living community standard (http://living-future.org/lcc). This stipulates that any human community needs to be designed to provide net eco system service benefits.

As such, we have begun doing an ecological assessment of the site as a community science project. The first assessment session took place in March, and we are now gearing up to conduct a second one on the 27^th of August.

We plan to put on some great local food for morning tea lunch and afternoon tea. We draw up a grid and people from the community help up with the ecological assessment. We are contacting you as we are sure you have many contacts through Connecting Country who might be interested in being involved and/or have experience that could support the data collection.

We have created a Facebook event through the Reckleben ecological assessment page, here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/624158704416948/“.

If you are interested in being part of this, you can indicate your attendance through their Facebook event invitation.