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 ...

Main Club –2 August 2024 Dr Holly Raudino is a senior research scientist in the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) Marine Science program. Her interests are whales and dolphins off the coast of Western Australia (WA). Her PhD, through Murdoch University, was on the Bunbury Bottlenose Dolphins. She ...

Main Club – 5 July 2024 Our speaker, Julie Fielder, is a mycologist and botanist who has worked with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), investigating the effects of logging and burning in our forests. She is part of a team working on a book about fungal ecology ...

Main Club, 14 June 2024 Dr Tony Friend is a research scientist who has worked at Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA). For 40 years, he has worked on the conservation of several threatened marsupials. He talked to us about the beautiful Numbat —our ...

Main Club 3 May 2024 Dr Erin Clitheroe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Murdoch University, an avid birder, and a conservation biologist deeply committed to protecting seabirds in the face of climate change.  Her special interest is the Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor. Erin began her talk with a wonderful ...

Main Club 5 April 2024 Our speakers this time were two young naturalists from the DRB, Andrew Wallace and Charles Porter. They told us some surprising facts about some invertebrates that can be found in autumn. Charles took the floor first. We learnt why witchetty grubs – the larvae of Swift Moths ...