Main Club Friday, 7th May 2021 Our speaker, Dr Oliver Berry, is the leader of the Environomics Future Science Platform, a Research and Development program at the CSIRO. Oliver was previously a post-doctoral researcher and Fellow at UWA. He told us that that he once worked with Rick How and ...

Main Club Sunday, 18th April 2021 On the 18th of April, the Main Club organized a visit to Boola Bardip, the state museum in the Perth Cultural Centre. Ten adults and two children joined our excursion, which started with a guided tour by Mark Harvey, Senior Curator of Arachnology. Mark ...

The Serventy Memorial Lecture is held every year in honour of the contribution made by the Serventy family to Natural History in Australia and to our Club. The lecture raises funds to encourage young people to study natural history. Before the talk, our new president, Shashi Sharma, talked about the ...

Main Club 9thApril 2021 Our speaker, Dr Mathew Hourston, describes himself as a marine scientist, photographer, communicator and citizen scientist. He has applied the skills that he developed in the study of marine ecology to the study of these amazing little spiders and their colourful courtship displays, which he does ...

5 March 2021 Having learnt about the long-necked Oblong Turtle at our November meeting, we were privileged to hear from an expert on another local freshwater chelonian, the critically endangered short-necked Western Swamp Tortoise. That species is special to our Club: Since the 1850s it was thought to be extinct, ...

Our speaker, Alan Needham, is a retired biologist specialising in marsupials, with a great interest in evolution and the life and ideas of Charles Darwin. Alan quotes geneticist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, who said “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. Alan began with Darwin as a child ...

Nick Cook, Coordinator of Friends of Lake Claremont, led a group of 16 people (11 members and 5 visitors) around Lake Claremont. While we walked, Nick talked to us about the ecology and natural history of the area and the story of the amazing rehabilitation that has been achieved there. ...

Main Club November 2020 Our speaker was Anthony Santoro, a PhD candidate at Murdoch University. For his Honours studies on the Oblong Turtle, Chelodina oblonga, Anthony surveyed thirty-five wetlands in the South West, involving about 1500 turtles. These turtles (we previously called them tortoises, but have adopted the American nomenclature) ...