Main Club, 6 June 2025 The enthusiasm of our speaker, Thilo Krueger, demonstrated how botany can be an intriguing and exciting subject, one that we can all become involved in through Citizen Science. Thilo is in the final year of his PhD at Curtin University. His photos of sundews exemplified ...
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Main Club 31 May 2025 The WA Shipwrecks Museum is the foremost maritime archaeology museum in the southern hemisphere. It features hundreds of relics from ships wrecked along Western Australia’s treacherous coastline, yielding a fascinating collection of artefacts that provides a glimpse into 17th- to 19th-century maritime life. The preservation ...
Read more →CCWA has a new Executive Director, Matt Roberts. He brings a broad experience in leadership, organisation planning, campaigning, communications, and media. He brings a diverse background, including experience with the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation and the Department for Communities, teaching at UWA, and a leadership role with the ...
Read more →Advance Notice, 23-29 August The Club has been invited to visit the property of Bush Blocks Guardians in Westonia adjacent to Chiddarcooping Nature Reserve (western side) (https://bushblocksguardians.org.au/). There are a wide variety of landscapes: large granite outcrops and slabs with shallow gnammas, large tors and a very unique and extensive mini ...
Read more →The Club’s goal is to support and engage in the study and conservation of the biodiversity of Western Australia and the wider natural environment. In the past, and still our main mode of operation is to write excursion reports and submit species lists with them for the Club’s archives. However, ...
Read more →Main Club, 2 May 2025 Tonight’s talk was by Dr Sue Graham-Taylor AM, a professional historian and researcher, and previously Curator of History and Sustainability at the WA Museum. She has curated exhibitions such as the Changes gallery at the WA Museum (Boola Bardip), that examines environmental changes in WA. ...
Read more →Main Club, 30 March 2025 It was a blustery morning after a hot spell in Perth. Overnight, we had around 3 mm of rain, but with a strong wind from the east, it was pleasant weather, although not good for bird watching or taking photos of plants or animals. The ...
Read more →Main Club, 4 April 2025 Peta Kelsey was our guest speaker. Peta has worked in the Antarctic and Fiji as a geophysicist. She has also worked at Curtin University and the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) in WA, where she modelled groundwater, catchments and estuaries. On retirement, Peta ...
Read more →Main Club, 7 March 2025 Our speaker was Lauren Hawkins, a research scientist with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA). Lauren’s speciality is ecoacoustics, which is the study of environmental sounds. It involves using these sounds to monitor ecosystem function and health, such as biodiversity, species distribution, fauna ...
Read more →Main Club, 7 February 2025 Our speaker was botanist Dr Mark Brundrett, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia and a research associate at the WA Herbarium. He talked about the relationships between the shapes and colours of our wildflowers and the animals that pollinate them. This talk ...
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