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 ...
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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 ...
Read more →JULY 2019 EXCURSION #2: To celebrate National Tree Day, six members of the WA Naturalists’ Club and seven Club visitors teamed up with the Friends of the Western Swamp Tortoise and the Chittering Landcare Group at a tree planting day at the Ellenbrook Nature Reserve. After a couple of hours ...
Read more →Our speaker was Simon Cherriman, a long-time member of the Nats’ Club (DRB Branch) and a former Serventy Memorial Prize-winning student. Wedge-tailed Eagles have been Simon’s passion since he was a child, when he would explore the bush by bike and make detailed notes on his sightings. His skill at ...
Read more →JULY meeting of Main Club Our speaker was Elaine Davison, a long-time member of our Club. Dr Davison is Adjunct Professor in the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University and a research associate at the WA Herbarium. She has worked in South Australia and the UK and ...
Read more →MAY 20 – 24 On the first day, twenty of us met for a briefing by our leader Mike Gregson. We learned that Jonica Foss lived here until she was 13 years old. Her dad, John Currie, was Officer-in-Charge for 35 years and Jonica shared some interesting facts with us. ...
Read more →Our speaker was Hans Lambers, Professor of Plant Biology at the UWA School of Biological Sciences. Hans has worked in several European and Australian universities. His main interests are phosphorus nutrition in native plants, food crops and pasture plants, as well as mine-site rehabilitation. Hans began by reminding us that ...
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