Main Club November 2020 Our speaker was Anthony Santoro, a PhD candidate at Murdoch University. For his Honours studies on the Oblong Turtle, Chelodina oblonga, Anthony surveyed thirty-five wetlands in the South West, involving about 1500 turtles. These turtles (we previously called them tortoises, but have adopted the American nomenclature) ...
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Read more →18 Sept 2020 On Friday 18 September at 2pm in the afternoon, the weather was sunny and it appeared to be a beautiful afternoon. Eighteen people from the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club and the Wildflower Society of Western Australia were met by Jolanda at the Kukerin Caravan Park, where she ...
Read more →OCTOBER 2020 Our speaker, Dr Leanda Mason of Curtin University, is, in her own words “Advocate for the Conservation of Non-charismatic Species”. She completed her PhD on the urban ecology of trapdoor spiders and their kin, to better understand how we might conserve them for future generations. Her thesis was ...
Read more →Main Club September 2020 The Faceless Cusk. The goggle-eyed Cockatoo Squid. Glass sponges. A living “swirl of spaghetti”. These are some of the truly weird and wonderful creatures that we met at the September meeting. Our speaker was Dr Nerida Wilson, Research Scientist at the WA Museum and Manager of ...
Read more →Main Club August 2020 Our speaker was Malcolm French, an agriculturalist, book publisher, associate researcher and Honorary Curator of the genus Eucalyptus at the WA Herbarium. He is a bush traveller and eucalypt chaser and received an OAM in 2015 for Conservation in Agriculture. Malcolm is now a volunteer at ...
Read more →BEACH SWEEP 6 AUGUST 2020 The weather was not at all conducive to a beach excursion. However, eight people braved it, including four children, as well as our three leaders. The storm overnight had left piles of kelp and seagrass for us to fossick amongst. But with rain threatening, we ...
Read more →Our first Covid-19 fungi foray was held at member Lyn Myles property in Glen Forrest on Sunday 5 July 2020. It is a lovely area of Jarrah bushland, abutting onto National Park. Twenty-seven participants, including 6 Fungi leaders, divided into 3 smaller groups and together found 44 species of fungi. ...
Read more →The July meeting was held online and we were fortunate to have Dr Amanda Hodgson as our guest speaker. Amanda is a research fellow at the Aquatic Megafauna Research Unit, part of Murdoch University’s Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems within the Harry Butler Institute. Her research is developing innovative ways ...
Read more →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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