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 →Our April speaker at the Main Club, filmmaker Leighton de Barros, has his new two-part series going to air as follows: Rottnest Island Kingdom of the Quokka – World Premiere on Nat Geo Wild, Sundays from December 16 at 23 at 8:30pm AEST – Foxtel, Fetch, Sky NZ & the ...
Read more →Congratulations to Kevn Griffiths and Lesley Brooker, who on Friday 9 November received awards for their extensive and invaluable service to natural history. Member for Kalamunda Matthew Hughes MLA and Kevn Griffiths. Photo: Rob Sandri Kevn Griffiths, co-founder of the Darling Range Branch (DRB Nats), is a fungus leader and ...
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 ...
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