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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Sixteen members and friends, mostly from the Meetup group, enjoyed a beautiful autumn day in Kings Park on April 7th. Rosser’s Banksia (Banksia rosserae) was in full bloom in the endangered garden. This arid land Banksia grows naturally south of Cue on Kirkalocka station, so it was a rare treat ...

The talk was given by Gemma Sharp, a member of a WA family which has been involved in western waters since pearling in the Kimberley in 1985. The company now runs whale watching tours throughout the year from Bremer Bay, Augusta and Fremantle. Species seen on the different tours are ...

MAIN CLUB April Meeting Our speaker was Professor Kevin Kenneally AM, of the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment. Kevin has conducted research on the plants and animals of the Kimberley for more than 40 years. A Life Member of the WA Naturalists’ Club, he has been president of the ...

Main Club March Meeting Our speaker was geologist Mike Freeman. Mike graduated from Adelaide University and has 50 years’ experience in geology, including teaching the public about geology and landforms, and being involved in the Geological Survey of WA and land-use planning on the Swan Coastal Plain. Mike talked to ...

Our speaker, following the AGM, was Ryan Glowacki, Bushland Manager for the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. Ryan began by talking about Quendas, which were until recently considered to be a subspecies of the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus. Now they have been assigned their own species: Isoodon fusciventer. Before ...