Friday
Night Meetings 2007
Speakers
and Topics of 2007
February
9th
| Speaker: |
Brian
Roach
|
| Topic: |
"Growing
Natives; Why, What & Where. " |
Brian
is an experienced plant propagator and gardener and a long term
member of APS
He has become a sort after speaker to Garden Clubs
| Speaker: |
Associate
Professor Lesley Hughes |
| Topic: |
"Growing
Natives; Why, What & Where. " |
Lesley
researches the "Impacts of global climate and atmospheric
change on species and ecosystems" at Macquarie University.
Her projects have included:
-
Global
climate and atmospheric change on species and ecosystems
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Climate change on herbivorous insect communities
-
Impacts of elevated CO2
on herbivorous insects
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Changes in bird migration
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Climate change on the biodivesity of Lord Howe Island
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Climate change on insect body size
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Climate change on vegetation ecotone
April 13th
| Speaker: |
John
Aitken
|
| Topic: |
"The
Sutherland Groups Plant Identification CD ROM" |
Members
of the Sutherland group of the APS have developed a CD ROM
for Identifying Plants of their region. The CD has been a great
success and has very good reviews in such places as "Domain"
in the Sydney Morning Herald.
May 11th
| Speaker: |
Daniel
Strosberg
|
| Topic: |
"
Vegetation Management in the Rail Corridors "
|
Daniel
is the Environmental Officer - RailCorp North Region.
His talk will outline the Vegetation Management Plan. How endangered
communities including Blue Gum High Forest, are managed as well
as weed control and bush regeneration in the Metropolitan North
Region.
June 8th
| Speaker: |
Peter
Olde
|
| Topic: |
"Hunting
Grevilleas in the Wild" |
Peter is a past President of the Sutherland Group and latter The
NSW Branch of SCAP (as it was known then). He went on to serve
another 10 years as vice President and is now a life member. His
interests in Grevilleas developed from his fascination with birds
and attracting them to his Garden. He has been the leader of Grevillea
Study Group since 1980. Peter is an honorary Research Scientist
for the Botanic Gardens and has been published in many journals
and in 1994 Coauthored a three volume reference book on Grevilleas
with Neil Marriott. The books are in our Library. The Autumn Plant Sale which he has run for the
last 10 years at Mt Annan Botanical Gardens will be at his farm
this year
July 13th
| Speaker: |
Dr
Michael Batley
|
| Topic: |
"Native
bees and Plant Pollination" |
Michael is a
member of our group and has been carrying out research on Native
bees at The Australian Museums. Although his background is
physical chemistry, he became interested in native bees after
observing coloured cuckoo bees in his backyard and then discovering
how little was known about them.
August
10th
| Speaker: |
Alison
Downing & Ron Oldfield
|
| Topic: |
"Mosses
of the Blue Mountains" |
For
a number of years Alison and Ron have been working on the mosses
of the Blue Mountains. Their manuscript was submitted for publication
at the end of last year (2006).Alison is a curator of the Macquarie
University Herbarium.
September 14th
| Speaker: |
Dr
Peter Weston
|
| Topic: |
"Drifting
Proteas or Continents?" |
Peter is responsible
for Proteacea at the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and has a vast
knoweldge of them. He will be talking about the Proteas of
the other southern continents, comparing them and discussing
how they were distributed
October 12th
| Speaker: |
Mike Barrett
|
| Topic: |
Integrated
Weed Management with particular reference to Environmental
Weeds |
Topics include weed seed banks, competition, weed
succession, chemical and biological control, glyphosate resistance,
garden escapes and some case studies.
Mike is an agricultural science graduate who worked
for ICI Rural in NSW developing agchem markets in crops,pastures
and horticulture. He has just retired from running his own consultancy
in Sydney.
Mike is a life Member of the Weed Society of NSW.
The Weed Society aims to promote a wider interest in weeds and
their management through talks and seminars. This society was
formed in 1966.and was the first in Australia.
.
November 9th
| Speaker: |
John
Siemon,
|
| Topic: |
“Propagation
& Storage of NSW Terrestrial Orchids” |
John
and his colleagues at Mount Annan Botanic Garden are developing
techniques for germinating and storing, long-term, NSW terrestrial
orchid seed and their associated mycorrhizae. John will
discuss the orchid germination process and novel techniques for
orchid conservation.
December 14th - Christmas Party
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