{"id":23529,"date":"2017-04-22T03:39:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T03:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=23529"},"modified":"2017-04-22T03:39:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T03:39:23","slug":"march-for-science-wellington-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/04\/22\/march-for-science-wellington-1\/","title":{"rendered":"March for Science: Wellington, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>March for Science: Wellington, New Zealand<\/h5>\n<p>Today, my last day in New Zealand for this visit, I was honoured to be able to attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marchforscienceNZ\/\">Wellington March for Science<\/a>. Its geographic position means that New Zealand has kicked off a global series of events &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marchforscience.com\/\">I think over 600 are planned<\/a>.\u00a0 The Wellington March for Science was\u00a0 one of the three that happened this morning; Auckland follows this afternoon.\u00a0 The event was well-attended in glorious, fabulous sunshine &#8211; Wellington was at its very best.\u00a0 The crowd initially assembled at the Civic Square:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23534\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8794-e1492830491497.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23537\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8799-e1492830529166.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Before marching over to the National Museum at Te Papa:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23538 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8802-e1492830703608.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23540\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8823-e1492830787128.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23543\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8826-e1492830818544.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>And then five short speeches, all good natured and well received:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23547\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8856-e1492830995598.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23549\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8862-e1492831073179.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23554\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8876-e1492831114209.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23559\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8907-e1492831145916.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>There were some brilliant placards:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23560\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8828-e1492831291464.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23562\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8845-e1492831328539.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23564\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8849-e1492831371362.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23569\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8885-e1492831406336.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23570\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8887-e1492831448212.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23572\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8889-e1492831478426.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23575\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8898-e1492831508137.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course different people were there for different reasons \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23579\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8909-e1492831638967.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>But thank you to everyone who was there for a happy, well-organised, positive and uplifting day.\u00a0 I wish everyone who is marching today my best wishes.\u00a0 This is so very important.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23584\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_8807-e1492831825717.jpg\" alt=\"March for Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was honoured to attend, In Wellington, the first of the over 600 March for Science events that are occurring all over the world. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on 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