Future Events
Talks are held in the Zoology Benham Building, 346 Great King Street, behind the Zoology car park by the old Captain Cook Hotel. This is where we used to meet pre-covid. Please use the main entrance of the Benham Building to enter and go to the Benham Seminar Room, Room 215, located on the second floor. Please be prompt as we have to hold the door open. Zoom links for the talks are sent to members, join the BSO here.
Trips leave from the Department of Botany car park.
Talk / Seminar on Wednesday 11th of November 2026, 05:20 PM (3 weeks from now)
Contact: Gretchen Brownstein | 0210658497
Speaker: Peter Johnson. Plants have taken me to watery places, and to words, names, terms, epithets, origins, and so on. Hydrocotyle hydrophila: how watery is that? Water has been taking me to brooks, burns, becks, desmids, diatoms, didymo, drizzle, droplets, drains, Drepanocladus, and Donatia.
And by way of a preview: a scene you might see from a bridge when playing Pooh-sticks, and wonder about. What might the streamers of filamentous algae tell us about stream flow, sinuosity, sediments, swirls, sliding windows, eddies, and erosion? Explanations from the greenery.
Field Trip on Saturday 14th of November 2026, 09:00 AM (4 weeks from now)
Contact: Gretchen Brownstein | 0210658497
McNallys track, Milton is a 7km walk up the hills behind Milton (300m of elevation gain). The track traverses over farmland and through small bush remnants which we will explore before continuing to a good lunch spot at the high point with great views. Come prepared for muddy wet feet and steep slippery tracks. Bring a lunch and water bottle. Meet at the Botany Department for carpooling at 9am. Return time 3pm. Drive is ~100km round trip (suggested carpool contribution $20pp). Contact Gretchen Brownstein 021 065 8497