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| Professor Geoffrey Hope ‘How have our mountain peatlands withstood fire over time?’ | Thursday, 4 May 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Geoffrey, Visiting Fellow in the Fenner School, ANU, will discuss the vulnerability of peatlands in the Australian Alps. Bogs and fens in Namadgi are a startling contrast to the water-limited slope vegetation of our region, staying green and luxuriant when grasslands and woodlands brown off each summer. Carbon dating shows that some bogs have been around for more than 15,000 years and during that time there have been changes in vegetation and fire regime that reflect changing climates and perhaps human use. Although threatened by climate change, the swamps have shown high resilience in the face of changing environments and large fires. |
| ANBG Friends Plant Science Group - Technical Talk | Monday, 1 May 2017 - 10:30am |
All things Pelargonium - genetic variation and evolution in South African and Australian Pelargonium. Dr Caroline Chong, currently Research Technician with the ANBG's Seed Bank, will share some of her recent research to capture and document population-level variation using South African and Australian Pelargonium as the example. The meeting will take place in the ANBG Theatrette. |
| ANBG Friends Photographic Group - Monthly meeting | Friday, 28 April 2017 - 10:30am |
Speakers for the April meeting are Photographic Group Convenor David Cox and Committee Member Bill Hall, who will give a combined presentation on Macro Photography. 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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| Genevieve Jacobs ‘Japanese Gardens: an exercise in beauty, restraint and imperfection.’ | Thursday, 27 April 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Japan’s national aesthetic has its foundations in nature, a deep connection that extends from its earliest history to the present day. Classical Japanese gardens are exercises in beauty, restraint and an embodiment of cultural beliefs about the passing nature of time, and the beauty of imperfection. 21st century gardens play with and expand on these ideas to make strikingly beautiful gardens that are also works of art. |
| Dr Roslyn Russell ‘Partners in the ‘Business of Nature’: John and Elizabeth Gould.’ | Thursday, 20 April 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
For eleven years between 1829 and Elizabeth Gould's untimely death in 1841, she and her husband John worked together to document and illustrate bird and mammal species across several regions of the world. In 1838 they began a two-year visit to Australia, where John documented its fauna while Elizabeth drew sketches, including some of native vegetation to serve as settings for the illustrations of birds and animals that would be produced as lithographic prints and ultimately published as The Birds of Australia and The Mammals of Australia. |
| Professor Adrienne Nicotra ‘Iconic Alpine Landscapes: past, present and future.’ | Thursday, 13 April 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Adrienne, a long-term collaborator with ANBG on Alpine plant research, will consider the impact of global climate change on our iconic alpine landscape Professor Adrienne Nicotra completed a BA at Wellesley College in 1990 and a PhD at University of Connecticut. She took up her position at ANU in 1999 and was awarded a Future Fellowship in 2010. Her research continues in plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology and reproductive ecology. |
| Matthew Higgins ‘Adventures with Rosie.’ | Thursday, 6 April 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Rosenberg’s Monitor is a large goanna that is rarely seen in the ACT. It is listed as a threatened species in NSW, Victoria and South Australia. This presentation looks at these beautiful reptiles in an ACT context, focusing on a project that recorded key activities of the monitors on Mt Ainslie in central Canberra. |
| ANBG Friends Plant Science Group - Technical Talk | Monday, 3 April 2017 - 10:30am |
Transition zones between Australian plant provinces (phytogeographic regions): from plants and myxomycetes Dr Peter Wellman, Research Associate at ANBG mainly working on the distribution of Australian slime moulds (myxomycetes). This talk looks at the nature of the boundaries between the six main plant geographic regions of Gonzalez-Orozco et al. (2014). The boundaries of the regions are found to be generally consistent, within experimental error, with both vascular-plant distribution boundaries (from the best known tree distributions), and myxomycete information. However, the plant information shows that the region boundaries have much smoother curves than the phytogeographic region model, and in many areas a mean annual rainfall contour is the best estimate of the region boundary. The transition zones at the region boundaries are similar in width for the plants and myxomycetes. They are generally 200-300 km wide, but can be as narrow as 140 km and as wide as 440 km. The transition zones cover about 40% of the area of Australia. More detail |
| Black Mountain, weeding work party | Saturday, 1 April 2017 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
Meet: at the seasonal cherry-van parking bay on Belconnen Way, next to Black Mountain Nature Reserve. Look for the balloons. Bring: Enthusiasm, your family and friends, water (and your favourite digging tool, if you wish). Everyone is welcome. Wear: hat, sunscreen, long-sleeved shirt, long pants, gloves, stout shoes. A delicious morning tea will be provided about 10.00am. |
| ANBG Photographic Group - walk, breakfast and monthly meeting | Friday, 31 March 2017 - 7:30am |
Speaker for the March meeting is photographer Chad Addison, who will give a presentation on Low Light Photography.
PG members will show photographs taken at the Summer Sounds concerts and Enlighten festival in the Gardens.
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