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New Zealand

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Social-ecologist, science communicator, digital artist

Profile Summary

Researcher in marine ecology and the socio-ecology of mangrove ecosystems. Tutor of Science and teaching assistant. I have an avid interest in pedagogy, Science and collaborative research.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biology/Life Sciences
• ☆ Sociobiology
• ☆ Forestry
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Marine Ecology
• ☆ Biodiversity
• ☆ Conservatism

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search

Work Experience

Science Tutor

Various companies

September 2013 - Present

PhD Candidate/teaching assistant

Auckland University of Technology

March 2016 - January 2019

Research Assistant

Edinburgh Napier University

October 2014 - January 2016

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Auckland University of Technology

March 2016 - Present

Master of Science

Bangor University

September 2012 - September 2013

Advanced Diploma-Environmental Conservation

The University of Oxford

September 2010 - September 2012

BSc

The University of Edinburgh

September 2000 - June 2005

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Amrit Melissa Dencer-Brown, Robyn Shilland, Daniel Friess, Dorothée Herr, Lisa Benson, Nicholas J. Berry, Miguel Cifuentes-Jara, Patrick Colas, Ellyn Damayanti, Elisa López García, et al. (2022). Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities? . Ambio.

Amrit Melissa Dencer-Brown(2020). From isolation to cross-cultural collaboration: My international PhD journey as tauiwi . Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. 4. (2). p. 228--234. University of Johannesburg

Amrit Melissa Dencer-Brown and Andrea C. Alfaro and Carine Bourgeois and Shaneel Sharma and Simon Milne(2020). The secret lives of mangroves: Exploring New Zealand's urban mangroves with integrated biodiversity assessments . Ocean & Coastal Management. 191. p. 105185. Elsevier {BV}

J. L. Pannell, A. M. Dencer‐Brown, S. S. Greening, E. A. Hume, R. M. Jarvis, C. Mathieu, J. Mugford, R. Runghen(2019). An early career perspective on encouraging collaborative and interdisciplinary research in ecology . Ecosphere. 10. (10). Wiley

Amrit Melissa Dencer-Brown and Andrea C. Alfaro and Simon Milne(2019). Muddied Waters: Perceptions and Attitudes towards Mangroves and Their Removal in New Zealand . Sustainability. 11. (9). p. 2631. {MDPI} {AG}

Carine Bourgeois and Andrea C. Alfaro and Amrit Dencer-Brown and Jean Louis Duprey and Anne Desnues and Cyril Marchand(2019). Stocks and soil-plant transfer of macro-nutrients and trace metals in temperate New Zealand estuarine mangroves . Plant and Soil. 436. (1-2). p. 565--586. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

M. Huxham and D. Whitlock and M. Githaiga and A. Dencer-Brown(2018). Carbon in the Coastal Seascape: How Interactions Between Mangrove Forests, Seagrass Meadows and Tidal Marshes Influence Carbon Storage . Current Forestry Reports. 4. (2). p. 101--110. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Amrit Dencer-Brown and Andrea Alfaro and Simon Milne and John Perrott(2018). A Review on Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Perceptions of New Zealand’s Mangroves: Can We Make Informed Decisions about Their Removal? . Resources. 7. (1). p. 23. {MDPI} {AG}

BOOK CHAPTER

Huxham, M., Dencer-Brown, A., Diele, K., Kathiresan, K., Nagelkerken, I., & Wanjiru, C. (2017). Mangroves and people: local ecosystem services in a changing climate. In Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective (pp. 245-274). Springer, Cham.