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 ...

Main Club, 1 March 2024 Our speaker was Emerson (Em) Lamond, an amateur bryologist. A bryologist studies bryophytes, which are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. These are non-vascular plants, which means they have no roots or vascular tissue but instead absorb water and nutrients from the air through their surface. Because ...

2 February 2024 Our speaker was a well-known Perth botanist, Alex George, who has been a Club member since 1956. Some of Alex’s main interests have been the Orchids, the Verticordias, the Banksias, Dryandras and Synapheas, and the history of botanists in Western Australia. He has worked at the WA ...