Skip to content
Citizen Science Show cover art

All Episodes

Citizen Science Show — 201 episodes · page 1 of 3

#
Title
1

From Gold Mines to Gumboots: Rod Ingersoll's Unlikely Path to Redclaw | #206

2

Giving Nature a Hand: Carolyn Hall on Rehydrating Australia, One Creek at a Time | #205

3

AR Welding, AI and the Future of Advanced Manufacturing with TAFE NSW's Nick Whalan-Daniels | #204

4

How Newcastle Library and Museum is Turning Preschoolers into Citizen Scientists with Karen Eastwood | #203

5

Fresh Honey, Hard Science: Inside the Fight to Save Australia's Bees with Heather Wightman | #202

6

Polar Blast and Yachts for Science. Mapping the ocean floor with Dr Paige Maroni (#199)

7

The Rainforests of the Ocean: Natalie Coy on Seagrass, Seeds and the Fight to Save Posidonia Australis (#201)

8

The Paediatrician Who Didn't Wait: Dr Louise Woodward and the Fight for Clean Air Over Darwin (#198)

9

Listening to the Land: How Regenerative Farmer Martin Royds Is Rewriting the Rules of Agriculture (#194)

10

Sharing is Caring: Dr Jessie Oliver on where to share and find Citizen Science | #197

11

Physics by Stealth: Associate Professor Dr Karen Livesey on Nanomagnets, Ghost Fungus and Getting Australia Curious About Science | #196

12

From Bone-Conducted Sound to Moon Dirt: Ben Newsome Wants Every Kid to Think Like a Scientist | #195

13

Down the Rabbit Hole: How Steph Scott Is Turning Pond Scum Into Planetary Wonder (#193)

14

The Sound of a Whale You've Never Heard: How Oscar Mower Taught a Computer to Listen (#185)

15

Tracking the Invisible Flood: Dr Scott Wilson on Microplastics and the Power of Citizen Science (#182)

16

Meet the Wombat Warriors: Inside Julie Old's Citizen Science Mission to Save Australia's Underrated Marsupial (#192)

17

From Mars to Bushfires: Dr Eriita Jones Brings Planetary Science Back Down to Earth (#181)

18

Science in Your Swimmers: How Anita Kolni and Caz Grant Built Australia's Ocean Culture Movement (#187)

19

Cardboard Teepees for Wildlife: How Dr Alex Carthey Is Rebuilding Shelter After the Fires (#186)

20

From Dive Guide to Nikon Ambassador: Jake Wilton's Camera-Eye View of Nature (#177)

21

Fifty Years of Mud, Sweat and Cheers: How One Volunteer Is Fighting to Save the Hunter's Shorebirds with Tom Clarke (#191)

22

Ocean Relics. The Indiana Jones of Australia's shipwrecks: Dr James Hunter (#188)

23

How a Small Outback Town Became One of the Darkest, and Brightest, Places in Australia with Grant Salmond (#184)

24

The Great Aussie Fungi Hunt with Dr. Michael Priest (#190)

25

From Backyard Digs to Bloody Mary: What a Decade of Dinosaur Podcasting Has Taught Sabrina Ricci (#183)

26

Brisbane’s backyard mosquito hunters are helping keep Zika at bay with Dr Gordana Rašić and Brian Montgomery (#176)

27

Why Killing Sharks Won't Make Our Beaches Safer with Jessica Meeuwig (#189)

28

From a Lone Shark in a Dubai Aquarium to Byron Bay's Leopard Shark Capital: The Unlikely Career of David Robinson (#180)

29

From the Weather Map to Mill Creek: Graham Creed's Second Act in Science (#174)

30

Building Hotels for an Endangered Icon: Inside Sydney's Seahorse Conservation Project with Mitch Brennan (#178)

31

The Art of the Graft: How Helen Howard Is Saving Australia's Rarest Plants One Splice at a Time (#172)

32

Slow Down and Look: How Adam and Amelie Are Turning Forster's Waters Into a Living Classroom (#179)

33

Born Into It: Ziggy Gow-Webb and a Lifetime Among Birds of Prey (#171)

34

Wings of Defiance: How Craig Webb Built Tasmania's Raptor Refuge from the Ground Up (#170)

35

Roots of the Matter: Why Australia's Urban Trees Are Fighting for Their Lives with Greg Moore (#167)

36

Coral's Last Chance: How Citizen Divers, Baby Food Science, and Reef Farts Are Rewriting the Future of Australia's Oceans (#175)

37

“You Can't Just Sit Back”: Graeme Sawyer’s Lifelong Fight Against Cane Toads and Biodiversity Loss (#164)

38

A Voice for the Glossies: How Fifteen-Year-Old Spencer Hitchen Is Inspiring a Generation to Stand Up for Nature (#173)

39

Protecting Sharks Means Protecting Their Homes: Inside the Global ISRA Project with Rima Jabado and Asia Armstrong (#166)

40

Inside the Amphibian ICU: The Fight to Save Australia’s Frogs (#168)

41

Climbing Into the Canopy: Mark Cashmore on Trees, Technology and the Future of Urban Ecology (#163)

42

How Citizen Divers Built Sydney’s Living Ocean Trail with Sam Baxter and John Rowe (#162)

43

Turning Curiosity into Science: Citizen Science Month with Dr Jessie Oliver (#169)

44

Living with Predators in a Human World with Jonny Hanson (#165)

45

The Enigma of the Great Spider Crab with Elodie Camprasse (#161)

46

Tracking Giant Mantas Beneath the Surface with Asia Armstrong (#160)

47

Stories from Kayaking the Wild Waters of the Macquarie Marshes with Bron Powell (#158)

48

Saving the Spotted Tree Frog with Matt West (#157)

49

Diving Into the Silent Threat Beneath Our Oceans with Pascal van Erp (#159)

50

From Builder to Beach Guardian: How a Drone Changed Jason’s Life Above Bondi (#156)

51

The Bush Naturalist Who Gave Australia a New Bee: Gary Taylor (#154)

52

Seadragons, DNA and the Power of Citizen Science (#155)

53

Paddling for the Marshes: Standing Guard Over an Inland Wetland with Bron Powell (#153)

54

Restoring Australia’s Lost Oyster Reefs with Manny Katz (#152)

55

Saving the Green Parrot Species Before Silence Falls with Abi Smith (#151)

56

Sea Urchins, Kelp Forests and the Shifting Balance Beneath the Waves with Jeremy Day (#150)

57

Holding the Line for the Regent Honeyeater with Mick Roderick (#149)

58

Finding Belonging Through Australian Wildlife with Adrian Sherriff (#148)

59

Long-Term Studies to Protect Australia's Wildlife with Professor David Lindenmayer (#147)

60

Greater Koala Park and Saving Tuckers Nob with Meredith Stanton and Tim Cadman (#146)

61

#145 The Real Sea Mob and the Power of Citizen Science in Coastal Wetlands with Owen Burt and Lucia Caldas

62

#144 Ghost Nets and the Silent Crisis on Australia’s Northern Shores with Kristen Sierke

63

#143 Beaches Full of Plastic with Heidi Tait from Tangaroa Blue

64

#142 Christmas Cracker 2025 with The Citizen Science Show Podcast Crew. A year in Review

65

#141 Foaming Tides and Microscopy with Samantha Sea

66

#140 Reviving Australia’s Freshwater Turtles Through Community Action with Ricky Spencer

67

#139 Restoring Coral Reefs Through Collective Action with Alicia McArdle

68

#138 Exploring Breathing Caves that Preserve in Stone, Charcoal and Silence.

69

#137 Australian Museum Champions Citizen Science Through Innovative Programs with Paul Flemons

70

#136 Listening to Bats in the Night: Citizen Scientists Reveal the Lives of Perth’s Microbats with Kelly Sheldrick

71

#135 Community Power Driving New Momentum for Australia’s Mangroves with Jock Mackenzie and Shannon Bredeson

72

#134 Echidna CSI and the Expansion of Citizen Science in Australia with Professor Frank Grutzner

73

#133 Connecting Communities With Science Through Earthwatch Australia | Elizabeth Irvine

74

#132 Following the Amazing Flight of the Bogong Moth with Dr Eleanor Drinkwater

75

#131 Mapping the Hidden Life of the Murray–Darling Through Community Hands with Dale McNeil

76

#130 Caves Beneath the Nullarbor: Exploring Australia’s Hidden World with Andrew Stempel

77

#129 Unearthing the Hidden World of Fungi with Dr Tom May

78

#128 Connecting Data and Community in the Dry Tropics with Kara-Mae Coulter-Atkins

79

#127 Young Scientist Inspires at CitSciOz25 with Passion for BioBlitz with David Mabb

80

#126 Why we Should be Paying Citizen Scientists with Dr Jack Nunn

81

#125 Lyrebird Dreaming: Speaking the Languages of Nature with Gregory Andrews

82

#124 From Campus Corridors to Coastal Wetlands: Steering Earthwatch Australia Through Change with Fiona Sutton Wilson

83

#123 Listening to the Pulse of Nature with FrogID with Nadiah Roslan from the Australian Museum

84

#122 Keeping Australia Buzzing: How a Nurse-Turned-Scientist Sparked a Movement for Pollinators with Megan Halcroft

85

#121 Fighting Krill Fishing with Dr Lucia Morillo and Sea Shepherd

86

#120 Protecting the Wild Hearts of the Hunter with Debbie Breen and Alexis Ting from Hunter Wildlife Rescue

87

#119 Unraveling the Harmful Algal Bloom Off South Australia | Faith Coleman

88

#118 Landholders Lead the Way in Conservation Through Citizen Science | Alice McGrath & Aaron Clausen | NatureMapr | NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust

89

#117 Saving the Orange-bellied Parrot from the Brink of Extinction with Kerri Duncan

90

#116 Safeguarding the Giants of Geographe Bay with Capri Joliffe

91

#115 Saving One Frog at a Time with Anke Maria Hoefer from FrogWatch

92

#114 Watching the Skies with the Newcastle Astronomical Society | Mark Murray | Hunter Science Festival 2025

93

#113 Inspiring Young Minds with Robots at the Hunter Science Festival | Macker McKrell | Hunter Science Festival 2025

94

#112 Seeds of Restoration | A Botanist’s Path to Preserving Australia’s Future | Lily Mickaill | Hunter Science Festival 2025

95

#111 From Leukaemia Research to the Poo Palace | Making Science Accessible for All | Brooke Harvey | Hunter Science Festival 2025

96

#110 Thirteen-Year-Old Waste Enthusiast Inspires at Hunter Science Festival | Caz Martin | Hunter Science Festival 2025

97

#109 Ireland’s Enduring Love Affair with the Basking Shark | Dr Simon Berrow

98

#108 Fighting for the Future of Australia’s Quolls with Paul Revie

99

#107 From Newsroom Deadlines to Oyster Reefs: My Life in Science Storytelling with Clare Peddie

100

#106 Toxic Bloom and the Fight to Save South Australia’s Coastline with Lochie Cameron