KRM Branch 23rd MAY 2021 The KRM Branch May excursion was to the WA Museum Boola Bardip and around a dozen members met at the front entrance ready to explore the new museum that has only recently been opened to the public. Rather than book a tour, we had chosen ...
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Main Club Excursion 14th – 16th May 2021 Did you know the WA Naturalists’ Club owns the Yunderup Nature Observatory on Cooleenup Island on the Murray River delta of the Peel Inlet? It was built by club members on land vested in the Club in trust as a field station ...
Read more →Presented by Dr Sarah Martin (GSWA) NSB Meeting 16th June 2021 Sarah began her presentation by commenting that while Australians have extensively recognised cultural and biological heritage, the concept of Geoheritage is much less understood and has had a much slower uptake. She explained that Geoheritage is about identifying, managing ...
Read more →KRMB Meeting 17th May 2021 For our May general meeting the theme was a Members’ night. There was a disappointing turn up due to several members being away. This resulted in only Colin Prickett sharing some photos of birds, insects, spiders and flora spotted over the past few months. The ...
Read more →NS Branch meeting 19th MAY 2021 Our theme for May was Rottnest Island. The mini-symposium, Rottnest in an Hour, attracted about 40 people, the largest audience so far this year, no doubt lured by the four experienced presenters – all Rottnest Volunteer Guides and with one exception, Nats members. Peter ...
Read more →Main Club meeting 4th June 2021 Our speaker was Dr Neville Marchant. Neville worked at the WA Herbarium from the age of 15 as assistant to Government Botanist, Charles Gardner, before graduating from UWA and then gaining his PhD in Plant Taxonomy at Cambridge. After that, he worked at the ...
Read more →Main Club Friday, 7th May 2021 Our speaker, Dr Oliver Berry, is the leader of the Environomics Future Science Platform, a Research and Development program at the CSIRO. Oliver was previously a post-doctoral researcher and Fellow at UWA. He told us that that he once worked with Rick How and ...
Read more →Main Club Sunday, 18th April 2021 On the 18th of April, the Main Club organized a visit to Boola Bardip, the state museum in the Perth Cultural Centre. Ten adults and two children joined our excursion, which started with a guided tour by Mark Harvey, Senior Curator of Arachnology. Mark ...
Read more →KRMB Sunday, 2nd May 2021 The April field outing had to be moved to the 2nd of May due to the Anzac Day. The outing was to Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre in Martin. We had booked a tour of the facility (it is the only way to see the ...
Read more →NSB Wednesday, 21st April 2021 Meeting Wednesday 12th May 2021 Golly Walk Our two April events were scheduled to dovetail, starting with an evening talk by Dr Peter Downes, the Curator of Minerals at the new museum, to be followed the next Wednesday by a guided tour with Peter through ...
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