Science Communication Award winner - Jacques Boubee, 2012
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Science Communication Award winner: Jacques Boubee, Freshwater Fisheries Ecologist, Hamilton.
Jacques received the Science Communication Excellence Award for his twenty years of research into freshwater eels, and the communication of this body of knowledge and his passion for eels to the wider community.
He is universally acknowledged for his expertise on freshwater eels and is central to NIWA’s “tuna training workshops” – an initiative that transfers knowledge to the public about eels living in community streams.
Credit: Dave Allen, NIWA