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CatMap
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Project	CatMap
Group	MAIN Trust NZ
Topic	Threats to biodiversity, Natural history
Resources online	yes
School sessions	yes
Level	Primary, Intermediate
Phil Bendle pages	Cats (Feral) Felis catus
Web address	https://main.net.nz
Location	New Plymouth, Taranaki

Project Overview[edit | edit source]

CatMap' is a Participatory Science Project with Curious Minds, funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. This project built upon the work done by the Taranaki Furbabies cat-tracking project, and the Victoria University project 'Cat Tracker'. School children tracked their cats with GPS units^[1], ^[2], ^[3]and analysed where the cats went. CatMap focused on the areas adjacent to native bush to determine cats' preferred habitat

Visit the Taranaki Furbabies cat-tracking project.

Partners in 'CatMap'[edit | edit source]

Welbourn School, New Plymouth

Inglewood Primary School

MAIN Trust NZ, Dr Dawn Mills (NP Vet Group), Dr Heidy Kikillus (VUW Cat Tracker NZ)

Information technology:[edit | edit source]

i-Naturalist project "What the cat brought in" to record what species the cats caught.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS): QGIS was used to visualise the GPS tracking data:
- 'Time Manager' was used to show the day/night movements of cats
- Sentinel-2 satellite imagery was used to define preferred habitats
Camtesia Studio recorded the QGIS screen and produced the mp4 videos

Resources:[edit | edit source]

Activities for students
Videos of the cat travels
Resources for teachers - handouts, animal welfare, lesson plans
Results of the research report, workshop presentation, cat-ranges, conference presentation
The Blog 'MAIN Trust maps nature' has a diary of the work done by Welbourn School.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Ron and Bellatrix live at the same house, but Ron roams

Welbourn fun

Project Report[edit | edit source]

CatMap report 2019 07 31.pdf

Resources[edit | edit source]

http://www.datamap.co.nz/education/course/view.php?id=8

Radio New Zealand - interview about the CatMap project January 2020 with slide-show and transcript.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ sciBRIGHT "How does GPS work?"
↑ High School Earth Science
↑ Unfa - how a GPS works

[1] sciBRIGHT "How does GPS work?"

[2] High School Earth Science

[3] Unfa - how a GPS works

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 ==Project Overview==
 CatMap' is a Participatory Science Project with Curious Minds, funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. This project built upon the work done by the [[Taranaki Furbabies]] cat-tracking project, and the Victoria University project 'Cat Tracker'. School children [http://www.datamap.co.nz/education/course/view.php?id=8#section-1 tracked their cats with GPS units]<ref>sciBRIGHT [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU_pY2sTwTA "How does GPS work?"]</ref>, <ref>High School [[wikibooks:High_School_Earth_Science/Using_Satellites_and_Computers|Earth]] Science</ref>, <ref>Unfa - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O3ZVHVFhes how a GPS  works]</ref>and analysed where the cats went. CatMap focused on the areas adjacent to native bush [http://www.datamap.co.nz/education/mod/page/view.php?id=82 to determine cats' preferred habitat]