• Photographic Group November Meeting

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    The next regular Photographic Group meeting, and final one for the year, takes place at 10 am on Friday 27 November in the ANBG Theatrette. The main item of business will be a presentation from long time group member Steven Playford titled ‘Northern Exposure’. Steven will be talking about his travels and photographic experiences in Northern Australia.

  • Georgia Reed: ‘Digging into the Australian National Soil Archive’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Georgia will introduce the Australian National Soil Archive of over one hundred thousand samples, outline its history and significance, and discuss how archived soil collections contribute to contemporary research. Abstract What is a soil archive, and why do we preserve soil samples for the future? The Australian National Soil Archive contains over one hundred thousand […]

  • Arian McVeigh ‘ANU Kitchen Garden – a third space for students to connect with each other and nature and enjoy good food’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    The ANU Kitchen Garden Program provides opportunities for students to connect with each other and nature while they tend an organic community garden and share the produce they grow. Abstract The ANU Kitchen Garden Program creates opportunities for students to connect with each other and with nature through a focus on environmental sustainability and fresh, […]

  • Professor Tim Entwisle ‘Three Worlds Oak: The First Memoir of a Genus’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    A dying hybrid oak in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens sets off on a search for its parents, and in doing so reveals the extraordinary diversity of the genus Quercus. There is far more to oaks than the familiar English tree. Abstract In Tim Entwisle’s latest book, Three Worlds Oak, a dying hybrid oak in Melbourne’s […]