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Pieter the Seed Eater with Pen Holland and Sarah Wyse

March 16, 2020 Pen Holland and Sarah Wyse
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Pieter the Seed Eater with Pen Holland and Sarah Wyse
Show Notes

In this episode, we’re talking to Dr. Pen Holland and Dr. Sarah Wyse about Pieter, the Seed Eater. This project is really cross-over, there’s lot’s of biology, math and computer science involved. 

Dr Pen Holland  is a lecturer in ecology, and a RPi certified educator at the University of York. She is also  is a quantitative ecologist whose interests range from using simple models to understand complex ecological problems, to developing novel ways to teach, disseminate research, and engage people in the biosciences. 

Dr Sarah Wyse  is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Bio-Protection Research Centre, based at Lincoln University, NZ. Sarah is a plant ecologist whose current research focus is on quantifying seed dispersal potential to model the invasion risk of introduced conifer species in New Zealand. 

The Seed Eater project, or “Pieter, the Seed Eater” is a project which combines many different sciences and skills, such as ecology, mathematics and digital making. I coined it a “crossover project” for me internally, as so many different sciences intersect.

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