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Michael Dodd

Michael Dodd

Research Associate, Ispot Curator

environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences

Professional biography

Mike is the iSpot curator based in the Faculty of Science at The Open University. Mike has over 30 years' experience in teaching and research including writing OU Science and digital photography courses and playing a key role in the development of iSpotnature.org, other OU citizen science projects such as Evolution Megalab and Treezilla as well the Floodplain Meadows Partnership project. Mike also has a background in surveying and GIS and expertise in the identification of a number of groups of organisms. His responsibilities within the iSpot project include provision of online support for website users; liaison with national recording schemes and other partners to develop community of experts and beginners using the site; data sharing and analysis.