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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Main Club, 15 February 2025 I arrived at Coogee Beach around 8 am to find so many activities going on, such as yoga on the lawn, running, and a group of divers getting ready for their underwater instruction. I got a nearby spot for my car and noticed a building ...

Main Club , 1 November 2024 Our speaker was Dr Sarah Comer, The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) Regional Ecologist for the South Coast Region. For over twenty years, Sarah has been involved in fire management, feral cat ecology, and feral predator control and has coordinated several threatened ...

Main Club, 4 October 2024 Greg Keighery was our speaker, a botanist and well-known Club member. Since 2003, Greg has been a Senior Principal Research Scientist with The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA). He talked about the genus Verticordia, which means “turner of hearts” and refers to Venus ...

Main Club,13 October 2024 This year’s visit to Collins Road on 13th October was a month later than last year’s, and it was interesting to see a change in which flowers were in bloom. The swampy area, for example, which last year had large numbers of Pink Petticoats (Utricularia multifida), ...

Our speaker was Dr John Huisman, Principal Research Scientist (Curator, Herbarium) at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. John has published ten books on seaweeds, including his latest, Marine Plants of Australia, which describes over 640 species, and was on sale at the meeting. (see book cover on page ...