Our presenter at this on-line meeting was Professor Kliti Grice, Distinguished Professor at John Curtin University and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. She is the Founding Director of the WA Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University. There have been five mass ...
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Main Club Excursion June 2020 With COVID-19 restrictions easing, the club is organising excursions once more. To celebrate, a group of 20 members and guests met for a guided walk through the bushland at the end of Schofield Rd, Wattle Grove (Bush Forever site #50). We were led by Professor ...
Read more →ONLINE May General Meeting Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we used Google Meet in place of the May physical meeting. Google Meet is a video conferencing app that integrates with G Suite ( a suite of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools) used by the Club. About 25 members logged in without ...
Read more →Main Club March 2020 Our speaker was Paul Lavery, Professor of Marine Ecology at the Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research at Edith Cowan University. His area of research is benthic marine ecosystems, especially seagrasses and how they respond to human pressures. Paul began by pointing out that seagrasses are not ...
Read more →A small group of Nats Club members gathered on a clear but breezy Sunday morning to explore one of Perth’s most popular dive spots, the Omeo shipwreck in Coogee. The Omeo had quite a varied service history, serving as an iron steamship, a passenger and cargo carrier, transporting materials for ...
Read more →Our Club’s scientific journal is now available online, including the very first years’ issues. This will make data contained in the journal available to a much wider audience than ever before. The Biodiversity Heritage Library at Museums Victoria has now finished scanning all volumes of The Western Australian Naturalist, up ...
Read more →November Meeting Report Our speaker was Nerida Wilson, a research scientist at the WA Museum. As head of the museum’s Molecular Systematics Unit, Nerida’s interest is global biological diversity and resolving evolutionary relationships between taxa. Sea slugs are of special interest to her, and she has been on seven expeditions ...
Read more →October Meeting Our speaker was Diana Prada, a PhD student at Murdoch University, whose current research focuses on the population genomics of microbats and the viruses they carry. She has expertise in applying molecular tools to conservation projects. Surprisingly, bats—which are the only nocturnal flying mammals—make up 20 per cent ...
Read more →September 2019 Meeting Our speaker was Nat Reisbeck-Brown, a spatial scientist who has been working on the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Nat walked us through some of the features of this database of nature observations, so that we can use it to find out more about our local areas ...
Read more →September: Main Club Excursion Ten of us joined excursion leaders, Ry Beaver and Tanya Marwood at this unique reserve east of Pingelly. Tutanning NR is a DBCA managed property with accommodation at the Percy Marshall field station. The habitat is Wandoo woodland, with some kwongan heathland and several large granite ...
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