NSB Wednesday, 21st April 2021 Meeting Wednesday 12th May 2021 Golly Walk Our two April events were scheduled to dovetail, starting with an evening talk by Dr Peter Downes, the Curator of Minerals at the new museum, to be followed the next Wednesday by a guided tour with Peter through ...

Northern Suburbs Branch 24th March 2021 Golly, I didn’t know the beach at Mettams Pool was so badly eroded! Our walk had started at Hamersley Pool and as we headed south along the beach, scattered bamboo stakes* at the foot of the dunes indicated how much damage had been caused ...

Northern Suburbs Branch 17 March 2021 Dr Glenn Moore is Curator of Fishes at the Western Australian Museum and has been studying the biology of the Western Australian Seahorse for more than 20 years. His primary interest is in the evolution, reproduction, behaviour, mate choice and movements of the species. ...

Mark Harvey, Curator of Arachnids, WAM 17 February 2021 Before telling us about spiders Mark began his presentation with some interesting facts about other local creepy crawlies. We learnt: Centipedes have only one pair of legs per body segment while millipedes have two pairs. A new species of millipede has ...

The Northern Suburbs Branch held its AGM on Wednesday, 16th December 2020 and was very well attended. Prior to the AGM, Don Poynton (Branch Chairperson), conducted his annual Christmas-themed quiz. This year, it featured the Christmas bush or tree named after various Australia states. The election of office bearers resulted ...

NSBranch Nov 2020 GOLLY, we do have a big crowd today! With 25 participants our walk at Warwick Bushland attracted the largest crowd for the year. We commenced the walk with a brief introduction to the bush from Steph Murphy, coordinator of the Friends of Warwick Bushland, who acknowledged the ...

Northern Suburbs Branch November 2020 Our speaker, Dr Kenny Travouillon, has been the Curator of Mammalogy at the WA Museum since 2015. Having studied the 10 to 24 million year old fossil remains of bandicoots found at Riversleigh, Queensland for his PhD, it was only natural for him to take ...

NS Branch Saturday, 26 Sept 2020 As it was our first attempt at a bio-blitz, the event must be considered a success with 56 people, including quite a few children, signing in. I know a few who attended forgot to sign, so the total was probably nearer 60. The Great ...

30 YEARS OF BUSHWALKS IN OUR LAST WILDERNESS NS Branch September 2020 Mike Donaldson, geologist, photographer and publisher, has journeyed to the Kimberley so many times over the last 30 years that he has lost count. At least once every year he sets off with a small band of friends ...

A talk presented to the Northern Suburbs Branch AUGUST 2020 by PROFESSOR PETER VETH (UWA) As an introduction, Pete briefly reviewed the two postulated options for migration into Australia – via Sulawesi and New Guinea (the northern route), or across the Sahul Shelf from Timor (the southern route) – keeping ...