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 ...
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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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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