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Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 26 October 2025 The October field excursion was to the Port Kennedy Scientific Park, a large reserve that forms part of the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. It contains a Ramsar Convention Wetland of International Significance. An excellent turnout of 17 members and visitors met at the ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 22 October 2025 Our second walk for the year at Lake Gnangara was a short one, only 1.8km, but it took us through a variety of habitats. We started at the northern end of the lake, which had been subjected to a prescribed burn by the City ...
Read more →Whole Club, 17- 19 October 2025 For this excursion, we had a goal to do a bat survey on the island, as I don’t think we had ever done one of these before. Ry Beaver volunteered to come to the island with his bat detector equipment: one Echo Meter Touch ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 15 October 2025 Our speaker, PhD Candidate Anna Faber, began her science education in Germany and transitioned into a teaching career, travelling from Germany to Sweden and the UK. Eventually deciding that research was her real interest, she found herself in Perth. With a background in microbiology, ...
Read more →Main Club, 7 November 2025 Two speakers, Drs. Andrew Burbidge and Ian Abbott gave the talk at this meeting. Both have been research scientists in WA Government departments, and held administrative positions there. Dr Burbidge is Chair of the WA Threatened Species Scientific Committee and of the Barrow Island Gorgon Gas Development ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 27–29 September 2025 The KRMB field excursion for September was a long weekend exploration of the Narrogin region. There were twelve members of the Nat’s Club and two visitors from Queensland, Glen and Judy Burns, who are members of the Chinchilla Field Nat’s. We all met ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch,17 September 2025 Speaker: Michael Burke, Manager, Shark Response Unit, DPIRD The WA Shark Hazard Mitigation Strategy is a Western Australian Government program to help protect beach, river and ocean users from shark bite incidents. A shark monitoring network that detects tagged sharks keeps the community informed about ...
Read more →Main Club, 3 October 2025 Our speaker was Jasper Dean. Jasper is the current secretary of the Perth Insect Study Society, and is studying an unusual combination at UWA: Conservation Biology and English. During his gap year, he worked at Kings Park as an Education Assistant. He enjoys making models of ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22 September2025 The presentation for the September Meeting was on the Protozoa, and speaker Daniel Heald provided this summary report. Guest Speaker and member Daniel Heald discussed creatures quite a bit smaller (most of the time) than his usual insects, including their phenomenal diversity, intricate structure, ...
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