astronomy

Tara McAllister

Tara McAllister is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tara McAllister rather than just read about it. In short: Tara G McAllister is a New Zealand freshwater ecology academic and is associated with Te Pūnaha Matatini at the University of Auckland. She is a Māori of Te Aitanga ā Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, and European descent.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Tara G McAllister is a New Zealand freshwater ecology academic and is associated with Te Pūnaha Matatini at the University of Auckland. She is a Māori of Te Aitanga ā Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, and European descent.

Academic career McAllister's 2018 freshwater ecology PhD titled 'Phormidium accrual cycles in Canterbury rivers: the effects of nutrients and flow' at the University of Canterbury, looked at the cyanobacteria Phormidium in predominantly braided rivers in South Canterbury. She then moved to the University of Auckland. In 2021 McAllister received a MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowship. McAllister's specialties include cyanobacteria in freshwater, mātauranga Māori and co-development of research with iwi, and has been used as an expert in media discussion on water toxicity and water shortage issues. With Sereana Naepi and others, she has published a series of papers on biases in New Zealand universities, particularly racial and gender biases, which have received wide attention. When a group of seven professors at the University of Auckland published a letter stating that mātauranga Māori (the traditional knowledge of the Maori people) was not science, McAllister said "we did not navigate to Aotearoa on myths and legends. We did not live successfully in balance with the environment without science. Māori were the first scientists in Aotearoa." The Tertiary Education Union, Royal Society Te Apārangi and New Zealand Association of Scientists and their own vice-chancellor were also critical of the letter. However, some prominent New Zealand and overseas scientists publicly supported the letter.

Awards In 2022, McAllister was awarded the 17th Biennial Zonta Science Award. In November of the same year McAllister was awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award "for research into the underrepresentation and undervaluing of Māori academics".

Selected works McAllister, Tara G., Susanna A. Wood, and Ian Hawes. "The rise of toxic benthic Phormidium proliferations: a review of their taxonomy, distribution, toxin content and factors regulating prevalence and increased severity." Harmful Algae 55 (2016): 282–294. McAllister, T. G.,J. Kidman, O. Rowley, and R. F. Theodore. "Why isn't my professor Māori?" Mai Journal 8, no. 2 (2019): 235–249. Wood, Susanna A., Craig Depree, Logan Brown, Tara McAllister, and Ian Hawes. "Entrapped sediments as a source of phosphorus in epilithic cyanobacterial proliferations in low nutrient rivers." PLoS One 10, no. 10 (2015): e0141063. Naepi, Sereana, Tara G. McAllister, Patrick Thomsen, Marcia Leenen-Young, Leilani A. Walker, Anna L. McAllister, Reremoana Theodore, Joanna Kidman, and Tamasailau Suaaliia. "The pakaru ‘pipeline’: Māori and Pasifika pathways within the academy." The New Zealand Annual Review of Education 24 (2020): 142-159. Wood, Susanna A., Laura T. Kelly, Keith Bouma‐Gregson, Jean‐François Humbert, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse IV, James Lazorchak, Tara G. McAllister et al. "Toxic benthic freshwater cyanobacterial proliferations: challenges and solutions for enhancing knowledge and improving monitoring and mitigation." Freshwater Biology 65, no. 10 (2020): 1824–1842.

References

External links Tara McAllister on X Tara McAllister on LinkedIn Publications by Tara McAllister at ResearchGate

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tara McAllister

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tara McAllister claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tara McAllister before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tara McAllister ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tara McAllister

In research: Tara McAllister appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tara McAllister in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tara McAllister is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of the University of Auckland, Living people, New Zealand Māori scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tara McAllister outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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