Last week we put the names of the eligible people into a box and drew a winner.
And that person is:

@danac

Congratulations danac, a signed copy of New Zealand Seaweeds will be winging its way to you shortly!

As a spot prize, we also decided to give a copy of the book to the person who added the most observations over the total period of the project, and that person is:

@tangatawhenua

Send me a message tangatawhenua and we'll get that book on its way as well.

Hi everybody,

We hope you are enjoying the summer, including many trips to the beach!

The MPI work under which we set up this NatureWatch project is nearing completion.
In mid March we will begin summarising all the observations in this project. We will then combine them with other data sources to map the known distributions of the large brown algae.

But, before then we've decided to run a competition! We are going to give away a copy of New Zealand Seaweeds An Illustrated Guide, signed by the author, Dr Wendy Nelson.

This book was published in 2013 and covers over 250 species of New Zealand seaweeds!

In order to go in the draw to win:

• an individual must add an image or images (observations) of a minimum of 5 of the species included in the project
• the individual must be a member of the project
• observations must be added to the project between 1 February 2018 and 18 March 2018

THE WINNER WILL BE DRAWN FRIDAY MARCH 23RD 2018

Finally, our new e-guide to the large brown algae of NZ is available for download from the NIWA website:

https://www.niwa.co.nz/coasts-and-oceans/marine-identification-guides-and-fact-sheets/beautiful-browns

We hope this will be helpful to all the lovely people out there who are helping us out!

Cheers,
Kate and team

P.S. Can anyone tell me how to embed an image of the cover in this post?? :)

I somehow managed to delete the previous posts :(