NORTHERN SUBURBS April Meeting Report Amellia (Milly) Formby is a passionate shorebird conservationist with many and varied strings to her bow. She started academic life with a Visual Arts degree from Monash University and worked as a professional tapestry weaver at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne for seven ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Main Club MARCH Meeting Report The speaker at the March meeting was Dr Jane Chambers, Academic Chair for Environmental Science and Environmental Management and Sustainability at Murdoch University. With over 30 years of experience in wetland research, management and restoration in WA and internationally, Jane has also served as Deputy ...
Read more →March 2017 The group visited the Travellers and Traders in the Indian Ocean exhibition at the museum, which tells the story of the voyages and people who travelled in the area over hundreds of years and of the objects which they carried—originating from many countries and often discovered in far ...
Read more →MARCH Excursion 2017 Our field outing on March 26 was a walk along the shore at the Point Peron Reserve in Rockingham. Not put off by a very windy, cool morning, certainly not the best of conditions for a walk around this coastal reserve, nine members plus one visitor (Brian) ...
Read more →March 2017 GOLLY WALK “GOLLY, we must be mad!” Although conditions and visibility were far from perfect five brave members jumped into the water at Mettam’s Pool on March 22 to conclude our beachcombing and planned snorkelling event. Their exit was almost as fast as their entry! Our preceding walk ...
Read more →Excursion March 2017 Thirteen members plus one visitor arrived at Faye Arcaro‘s four acre property “Botanic Obsession” in Jandakot on March 18 hoping to see lots of insect activity, especially native bees. Unfortunately the day was overcast and grey and activity was at a minimum. But Faye’s enthusiasm more than ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 A large audience of members and visitors turned out for our March meeting to listen to guest speaker Delphine Chabanne, a PhD Candidate at Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU), who presented a talk on her PhD project. Delphine is conducting a comprehensive investigation into the ecology ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 Mike Freeman from the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum displayed his passion for geoscience education when he enlightened us about six of recognised impact structures in Western Australia. 15 of Australia’s 33 confirmed and probable impact structures are located in WA. Of these, only four are ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 Branch President, Mike Green, presented an illustrated talk on kangaroos in their garden, continuing a theme of focussing this year’s DRB talks on natural history in the Hills area. Kangaroos are herbivores that are native to Australia and its neighbouring islands. They are marsupial mammals of the ...
Read more →APRIL Meeting 2017 Dr Ben Miller, fire ecologist and Director of Science at Kings Park, has worked in areas such as fire ecology, restoration ecology, rare plant conservation and ecosystem management. Ben’s talk looked into the role that fire ecology plays in the management of bushland in Kings Park. Most ...
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