Main Club November Meeting Our speaker, Mikael Siversson, is the head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the WA Museum. He manages the Palaeontology collection of 1.5 million specimens at the museum, which contains for example: stromatolites from the Pilbara, fish from Gogo in the Kimberley and ...
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KRMB GENERAL MEETING Unfortunately, during the week before the October meeting, the scheduled guest speaker advised us that he would be unable to attend. To fill the gap, Colin Prickett presented some photos. He started with a series of images taken at Lark Hill, which was to be the venue ...
Read more →KRMB October Excursion The outing to the Lark Hill Reserve, between Port Kennedy and Secret Harbour, was on October 21. The reserve is located in an area known as the Becher Plain, which has been formed through the accumulation of Holocene sediments over a period of around 7000 years. The ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch October Excursion The NSB’s visit to the WA Reptile Park at Henley Brook was arranged as a follow up to Gane Doyle Jnr’s very entertaining presentation, Reptiles, Up Close, at the branch’s July meeting. So it was very disappointing to have only four members turn up, although ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch¦November Meeting Our guest speaker, Melanie (Mel) Turner is Dive Co-ordinator for the WA Underwater Explorers’ Club. She dives at least twice a week, including regularly in the Swan River at night. Mel first experienced the wonders of night diving about 10 years ago while holidaying in Bali. ...
Read more →DRB November Meeting Report This was the first of the DRB’s special talks honouring the DRB elders. Kevn Griffiths, the DRB Co-founder, has presented talks over many years, but this was his debut using digital technology at the wonderful age of (almost) 90. Kevn documented the founding of the DRB, ...
Read more →Main Club September 2018 Meeting Dr Kenny Travouillon, Curator of Mammalogy at the WA Museum, originally worked on Riversleigh marsupial fossils for his PhD. When he first started as the Mammalian Curator at the museum he went through a box of specimens of the Western Barred Bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) and ...
Read more →Main Club October 2018 Meeting Long-term Club member Kevin Coate spoke to us about his visits to Christmas Island dating back to 1990. The island lies 2600km north-west of Perth and is formed by an extinct volcano which rises more than 4000m from the ocean floor, reaching a height of ...
Read more →DR Branch October 2018 Meeting Laura Skates, a botanist and final year PhD candidate at UWA, captivated her audience at the DRB in October 2018. She started her talk by exploring popular cultures and the wonder or horror of carnivorous plants. From the Venus fly trap, known all over the ...
Read more →NS Branch September 2018 Meeting Pearls have fascinated people for thousands of years, no more so than at our September meeting when members and visitors were still glued to the words of our guest speaker, Michael Seifert-Weiss after one and a half hours. Michael’s presentation covered a wide range of ...
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