Kia Ora
My name is Jeremy Hogue deputy principal at St.Gerard's School Alexandra www.stgerards.school.nz and at present I am on a Primary Science Teacher Fellowshipadministered by the Royal Society of NZ.
I am being hosted by the very helpful team at Landcare Research NZ in Alexandra www.landcareresearch.co.nz Grant Norbury & James Smith monitoring Otago Skinks at the Mokomoko Sanctaury just out of Alexandra. For more information check out
Central Otago Ecological Trust
Or watch it on TV at http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/locals-fight-save-endangered-skinks-video-4673752 to see the people and the place for yourself.
It is a great learning curve to be involved in undertaking such varied activities as locating possums
( see profile photo) to data entry on excel to using camera trapping techniques,
As mentioned above the main project I will be responsible for is monitoring skinks at the Sanctuary
through photo sighting i.e. - photographing and identifying individual Otago ( Oligosoma otagense ) skinks and then entering the results into a a database.
Here are some photos of the sanctuary with some of the equipment used to help control pests and to
keep a track of the skinks.
Questions Which ones are used to catch pests and what type of pests could they be?
Which ones are used to keep a track of skinks and other lizards?
19/8
Today I took some photos of "Sumo" as he was sunning himself.
What details can you spot about him and where he is?
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