Natasha Blaize Gardiner

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Natasha is a social scientist with a background in psychology and sociology. Her research interests include Antarctic governance, Antarctic science-policy knowledge exchange and marine conservation in the Southern Ocean.

Natasha is also a Senior Environmental Advisor for New Zealand's National Antarctic Programme, Antarctica New Zealand, and she represents New Zealand at the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP). She also serves as a steering committee member of Ant-ICON (Integrated Science to Inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation), which is a Scientific Research Programme under the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Senior Environmental Advisor , Antarctica New Zealand
  • 2023–2024
    Policy Advisor, Antarctica New Zealand
  • 2019–2023
    Environmental Advisor, Antarctica New Zealand

Education

  • 2025 
    University of Canterbury, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2019 
    University of Canterbury, Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies
  • 2014 
    University of Otago (completed at University of Glasgow), Bachelor of Arts, Double Major Psychology & Sociology

Publications

  • 2024
    Gardiner, N. B., Gilbert, N., Liggett, D., & Bode, M. (2024). Measuring the performance of Antarctic Treaty decision‐making. Conservation Biology, e14349.,
  • 2024
    Gardiner, N. B., Liggett, D., Gilbert, N., & Cvitanovic, C. (2024). Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange. Environmental Policy and Governance.,
  • 2023
    Gardiner, N. B., Gilbert, N., & Liggett, D. (2023). Taming a ‘fuzzy beast’? Stakeholder perspectives on Antarctic science-policy knowledge exchange practices in New Zealand. Plos one, 18(11), e0294063.,
  • 2022
    LaRue, M., Brooks, C., Wege, M., Salas, L., & Gardiner, N. (2022). High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond. Conservation Letters, e12884.,
  • 2022
    Hughes, K. A., Santos, M., Caccavo, J. A., Chignell, S. M., Gardiner, N. B., Gilbert, N., ... & Terauds, A. (2022). Ant-ICON-‘Integrated Science to Inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation’: a new SCAR Scientific Research Programme. Antarctic Science, 1-10.,
  • 2020
    Gardiner, N. B. (2020). Marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean: Is the Antarctic Treaty System ready to co-exist with a new United Nations instrument for areas beyond national jurisdiction?. Marine Policy, 122, 104212.,

Contact Natasha for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration