Speakers and Topics of 2006

February 10th
Speaker: Paul Marynissen
Topic: New weed incursions and changes to the noxious weed act (March 2006)"

March 10th
Speaker: Dr Barbara Briggs
Topic: Tracing the family tree of flowering plants, the DNA story

April 14th No meeting – because of Easter

May 12th
Speaker: Prof Andrew Beattie
Topic: Wild Solutions: Why Biodiversity is Money in the Bank

June 9th
Speaker: Dr Tony Auld
Topic: The impacts of fire frequency, season and intensity on seed germination

July 14th
Speaker: Geoff Sainty - IS NOT AVAILABLE
Topic: Saltmarsh plants and reclamation

July 14th has changed to:
Speaker: Dr Amelia Martyn
Topic: "The science behind the plants - studies on NSW
native seeds and waratahs"

August 11th
Speaker: Dominic Sivertsen
Topic: Mapping Native Vegetation & the plant ecology of NSW

September 8th
Speaker: Vic Cherikoff
Topic: The value of Australian native plants for food, medicine and more

October 13th
Speaker: Karen Thumm
Topic: North Shore Frogs

November 10th
Speaker: Jonathan Lidbetter
Topic: Tissueculture - cooking up a storm with native plants

December 8th - Christmas Party