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Type
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Date
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Description
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Person/Presenter
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Information
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Meeting |
16/7/2018 |
Fungi |
Nigel
Fechner
|
Nigel Fechner, Senior Botanist
with the Department of Science,
Information Technology and
Innovation (DSITI)of Queensland,
has worked at Queensland
Herbarium for 17 years,
specialising in the little known
kingdom of fungi, with a special
interest in Boletes. He has
written many papers on fungi and
ecology and is also poetically
gifted. We look forward to
hearing breaking news in the
emerging field of fungal
taxonomy and ecology. |
|
Excursion |
12/8/2018 |
Moggill
Regional Park |
Helen
Schwencke |
Moggill
Regional Park includes 491 ha of
the D’Aguilar Range bushland
corridor. This entrance to the
park
includes diverse vine forests.
We will be exploring the St
Peters Downfall Break area which
drains into Pullen
Creek, and is along
different tracks from our first
visit.
The tracks are defined, and one
section is steep, with some
loose stones.
|
|
Excursion |
15/8/2018 |
Ford Road Conservation Reserve, Sheldon
Ekka Wednesday |
Susan Nelles
|
A short walk from the
road to the entrance of the
Reserve and a small shelter is
on the left. The first 200m
feature 29 grass species. We
walk the wide gravel, gently
undulating track on the right
ridge and enjoy the pleasant
open eucalypt forest, at around
105 m ASL. The plant list of 183
species will keep us busy. In
early June, the understorey is
very healthy after summer –
autumn rains.
Those who continue will descend
to Buhot Creek, so well soled
shoes and a stick would be
useful for the full circuit.If
you wish to come, please email
me
zefarella@icloud.com
for a map, plant and grass lists
and terms used in grass ID.
These are courtesy of Lynne
Roberts, Redland U3A Botany in
the Bush. It is known as an
excellent birding site in the
Redlands, and a list may be
available. |
|
Meeting |
20/8/2018 |
The
biology and distribution of
Australian lungfish in
Queensland |
Roger
Guo
|
Dr.
Roger Guo was born in Northern
China and studied Marine Biology
at the Ocean University of
Qingdao. In
1989, he went to Kiwi
Land to study fish larvae in the
Cook Strait at the New Zealand
Oceanographic Institute.
After 12 months in windy
Wellington, Roger came to Queens
Land to carry out further study
of osmoregulation
in Australian freshwater
fish for his PhD.
Since graduating, Roger has
spent most of his time in
business and has
not been involved with
fish in his career until
recently when he bought an
Australian lungfish business in
2009.
Since then, Roger has bred and
exported Australian lungfish to
more than 15 countries
worldwide.
Roger loves gardens and spends
his spare time creating a
Chinese garden in Bellbowrie
where his fish business
is also located. |
|
Camp |
16/9/2018 |
Annual long excursion.
Binya National Park and Bowra
Sanctuary. |
Neil Fordyce and Janet
White |
The long excursion for 2018 will
be to Binya National Park and
the Australian Wildlife
Conservancy’s Bowra Sanctuary
near Cunnamulla. The trip will
comprise a week at Binya and a
week at Bowra.
Binya is a small national park
situated on the Warrego and
Cuttaburra Creek flood plains
110km South of Cunnamulla. It is
an isolated park with few
facilities so requires some
level of self-sufficiency. Binya
is not well surveyed so QNC can
make a significant contribution
to the knowledge of the park.
Bowra Sanctuary is a 140 km²
nature reserve near Cunnamulla
in South West Queensland,
Australia. It lies in the Mulga
Lands bioregion on the Warrego
River plains, in the catchment
of the Warrego and Paroo Rivers |
Learn about natural history at our meetings with talks presented by
specialists from the club or from various scientific institutions, and from
members exhibits. Visitors are welcome
The Club arranges at about ten field excursions each year to locations of
natural history interest and tours of specialist institutions such as the
Queensland Herbarium or museums. They range in duration from short, half-day,
local trips through week-end camps to longer excursions lasting from one to two
weeks in more remote locations. Visitors are welcome on short excursions.