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| Event title | Date | Details |
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| Dr Brett Howland ‘Recent results of the effects of fire on grassland plants and animals’ | Thursday, 8 June 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Brett will describe his work on natural resource management programs. Over the last seven years he has been involved in the implementation of a kangaroo monitoring program using pellet counts; the creation of an ACT vegetation map; and the establishment of a research monitoring program looking at the effects of kangaroo grazing on reptiles and grass. |
| ANBG Friends Plant Science Group - Technical Talk | Monday, 5 June 2017 - 10:30am |
What does Australia's largest pea-flowered legume genus have in common with the 1988 movie Twins? Dr Mike Crisp of the Ecology & Evolution Unit, Research School of Biology, ANU will cover aspects of the biology of the Daviesia genus, including its taxonomy, evolutionary diversification, biogeography and adaptive traits. New DNA technology has helped discover some cryptic species amongst the 131 distributed across the continent. The meeting will take place in the ANBG Theatrette. |
| Black Mountain weeding work party | Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 9:00am to Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:45am |
Meet: at the junction of Clunies Ross Street and Black Mountain Drive. Look for the balloons. It may be a good idea to park at the bottom of the ANBG southern car park (closer to the Black Mountain Drive) and walk across the road from the bottom gate to the meeting point. For more details, click on the blue heading in the left hand column. |
| Dr Brian Hawkins ‘Birds and plants in subtropical NSW’ | Thursday, 1 June 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Brian, now a scientist with Bush Blitz in Canberra, describes his earlier work as an ecologist in Northern NSW studying the relationship between birds and their food plants in the forests of the Dorrigo-Bellingen-Coffs Harbour area. |
| Jindii EcoSpa's Sunday Session: Mindful Living-An Antidote to Stress | Sunday, 28 May 2017 - 9:00am to Monday, 29 May 2017 - 10:45am |
The next Sunday Session at Jindii EcoSpa will focus on Mindfulness and will include a guided mindfulness meditation walk in the Gardens. By increasing your ability to live mindfully and by developing the skills to manage stressful experiences, as well as learning to tend to and nurture your resilience and well-being, you can learn how living mindfully can revitalise, recharge and replenish you. ‘Mindful Meditation’ is about remembering to care for yourself by choosing kindness and compassion over anger, jealousy and distractions. Tickets cost $20. For more information, see the Jindii EcoSpa event brochure (PDF). A delicious morning tea will be served. |
| ANBG Friends Photographic Group - Monthly meeting | Friday, 26 May 2017 - 10:30am |
Speaker for the May meeting is Photographic Group member and Guide Pam Rooney. Pam will give a presentation on ‘Ordering the chaos: elements of design in photography’ which will include design, composition, colour and framing. There will also be a 'Show and Tell' segment where members have the opportunity to show their recent photographs. The meeting will take place in the ANBG Theatrette.
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| Dr Brian Cooke ‘Galapagos: the continuing battle against invaders’ | Thursday, 25 May 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Brian, retired CSIRO scientist, recalls his time as resident scientist at the Charles Darwin Research Station on the island of Santa Cruz. |
| Doug Laing “A Stroll on Table Mountain” | Thursday, 18 May 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Doug will take the audience for a sunny January morning stroll on the slopes of Table Mountain in summer bloom. This special place, part of the wider Cape Floral Kingdom, has fascinating parallels and equally fascinating differences with the Australian flora, particularly that of southwestern Australia. Some of these will be discussed in this talk, especially as they relate to the interaction between birds and plants in the two regions”. |
| Public Forum on 'Putting food on the plate for 9.7 billion: Challenges and Solutions' | Wednesday, 17 May 2017 - 5:30pm to 6:45pm |
Food is one of those things that we can’t simply avoid thinking about every day of our lives, but what about the future? What are we doing now to make food crops more productive and sustainable to ensure there is enough food for the 795 million people who go hungry today and the additional two billion we are expecting by 2050? In this forum, internationally recognised researchers in the areas of plant science, development, agriculture and public policy will discuss the challenges and potential solutions needed to secure a future with food for everyone. |
| John Blay ‘Engaging with wilderness of the coastal ranges; strange plants, yowies and the old ways’ | Thursday, 11 May 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
In 1981 John Blay was awarded the Parks Writers Award to spend 12 months by himself in the wild country between Araluen and Bemboka. It confirmed ongoing researches into south-eastern Australia's forests, settlers and Aboriginal people that have resulted in projects such as the Bundian Way, an ancient pathway between Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay. John is a writer, naturalist and walker. The author of ‘On Track’ and ‘Back Country’ reflects on how walking changes your relationship to the countryside. |
