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| Event title | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Damian Wrigley ‘Australian Seed Bank Partnership’ | Thursday, 8 August 2019 - 12:30pm |
Damian, from the Australian Seed Bank Partnership (ASBP), will outline how the ASBP is contributing to global conservation efforts and will give an update on the Seed Science Forum to be held at the ANBG in 2020. |
| ANBG Friends Plant Science Group Technical Talk | Monday, 5 August 2019 - 10:30am |
Francisco Encinas-Viso (CANBR - CSIRO) will talk on 'A window to the past: using museum specimens to study temporal changes of plant-pollinator interactions' |
| Guided Walk - Mosses, Lichens, Fungi and Plants in the Days of Dinosaurs | Sunday, 4 August 2019 - 10:00am to Monday, 5 August 2019 - 10:45am |
About 50 million years ago, Australia was part of Gondwana, a supercontinent in the southern hemisphere. Dinosaurs roamed this great landmass. Join Volunteer Guide Linda Beveridge on this one hour guided walk through the ANBG discovering the plants that are similar to those the dinosaurs would have been familiar with. This walk is now sold out. |
| Black Mountain Weeding Working Party | Saturday, 3 August 2019 - 9:00am to Sunday, 4 August 2019 - 11:45am |
We shall focus on removing non-local woody and other weeds in the northwest of the Reserve near Caswell Drive. Meet: At the Belconnen Way entry to the Black Mountain Nature Reserve. Please book: if you are planning to come, please email your name and phone number to friendsofblackmountain@gmail.com or phone 0437 298 711 as this helps with the catering. Also, having your contact number helps us to let you know if arrangements need to change at the last minute (for example, adverse weather conditions). |
| Dr Jane Roberts ‘Value of Wetlands and Swamps’ | Thursday, 1 August 2019 - 12:30pm |
Jane, a wetland ecologist, will talk about wetlands, and how they are currently of scientific interest for their role in carbon storage, but that has not always been how they have been valued. An historical perspective of wetland values and their changes say more about human society than about wetlands. |
| Guided Walk - Mosses, Lichens, Fungi and Plants in the Days of Dinosaurs | Sunday, 28 July 2019 - 10:00am to Monday, 29 July 2019 - 10:45am |
About 50 million years ago, Australia was part of Gondwana, a supercontinent in the southern hemisphere. Dinosaurs roamed this great landmass. Join Volunteer Guide Linda Beveridge on this one hour guided walk through the ANBG discovering the plants that are similar to those the dinosaurs would have been familiar with. This walk is now sold out. |
| Black Mountain Summit Ramble | Saturday, 27 July 2019 - 9:30am to Sunday, 28 July 2019 - 11:45am |
Join our ANBG Guide, and FoBM guide Michael Doherty, a local ecologist to hear about some of the winter flowering plants in the gardens and on the mountain as well as other plants during a ramble up the north-eastern slopes from the Visitor Information Centre up to the Summit of Black Mountain. Michael Doherty, a local ecologist, will also be talking about some very old trees (with ‘elephants’ feet’?), and how trees and shrubs that show scars and rejuvenation cope with fire. |
| ANBG Friends Photographic Group - July meeting | Friday, 26 July 2019 - 10:30am to 12:30pm |
Rodney Garnett – “An overview of Panoramic photography” Rodney has had a passion for photography for over 55 years, and for last two years has presented a 10-week course on Photography for Travellers through the U3A. In an overview of Panoramic photography he will touch on their evolution, what works and the equipment behind them. He will concentrate on the technique of stitching images and its application beyond just panoramic. He will demonstrate nodal point rotation and other essentials for exceptional quality stitched panoramas. Then a look at stitching software and in in particular the tools in Lightroom, Photoshop and ON1 Photo Raw. |
| Brendan Lepschi ‘Your Time Would Be Better Spent Digging Holes – Taxonomy, Plant Names and Why Nothing Ever Stays the Same’ | Thursday, 25 July 2019 - 12:30pm |
Brendan, Curator at the Australian National Herbarium, will discuss some of the reasons plant names change and outline the principles of botanical nomenclature and the rules governing it, using members of the iconic Australian family Goodeniaceae as an example. |
| Dr Ben Walcott ‘Garden Design with Native Plants’ | Thursday, 18 July 2019 - 12:30pm |
Ben will talk about garden design using native plants including some well-known native gardens. |
