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  • Anthony Whalen ‘CSIRO has a new building – what will this mean for Australia’s national biodiversity collections?’

    Anthony, Director of the National Research Collections Australia CSIRO, will outline the careful planning for CSIRO and ANBG’s precious national collections of preserved plants, vertebrate and invertebrate animals and other organisms, and how new laboratories and technologies will contribute to new ways to biodiversity research. Abstract CSIRO is home to national collections made up of […]

  • Dr Tobias Hayashi ‘The sexual chemistry of greenhood orchids’

    Tobias will talk about research from his PhD on pollination in greenhood (Pterostylis) orchids. Greenhood orchids attract their male fungus gnat pollinators by mimicking the sex pheromones of the female fungus gnats. Biography  Dr Tobias Hayashi completed his PhD on orchid pollination at the Australian National University in 2021 and is a co-author of ‘Field […]

  • Parliament House Spring Courtyard Tours

    The Public Programs Officer at Department of Parliamentary Services has issued a warm invitation to Friends of the Australia National Botanic Gardens to their upcoming Spring Courtyard Tours at Parliament House. This is a fun opportunity to tour the beautiful Parliament House courtyards in their blooming Spring glory, while discovering more about the private areas […]

  • Professor Nerilie Abram ‘Emerging tipping points in Antarctica’

    Nerilie, climate scientist from ANU, will review evidence for climate change vulnerabilities in Antarctica, including using past, present and future perspectives to assess the potential for tipping points in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. This will include a description of the 2023/24 Denman Terrestrial Campaign to characterise the Denman Glacier, the deepest known glacier on […]

  • Photography Group – September meeting

    Our speakers this month are Photography Group Committee Members who will share their post-processing hot tips and workflow with the Group. Show and Tell by members, with a maximum of 6 images each, will proceed as usual. The meeting will take place in the ANBG Theatrette. All members of the Friends are welcome to come […]

  • Dr Alex Wall ‘Traps’n’Maps: collecting data today to better understand the past tomorrow’

    Alex, from the ANU, will talk about the value of fossilised pollen for understanding environmental changes over time, and measuring the amounts and types of pollen across Australia today to understand the links, including collection by VegeMap, a citizen science project. Abstract Fossilised pollen is a little-known but essential part of our understanding of environmental […]