The 2024 field symposium of the NSW Linnean Society will focus the South Coast of NSW and NE Victoria. Spectacular coastal outcrops amd unique botanical diversity characterise this region.
- Tues 17 Sept – Symposium at Batemans Bay Soldiers Club
- Wed 18 Sep – Fireld trip – South Coast geology from Narooma to Wasp Head
- Thu 19 Sep – Field Trip – Ulladulls Heathland Reserve and Old Blotchy (Murramarang NP).
Registration details and full program at https://linneansocietynsw.org.au/symposia/
Symposium Program – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17
Batemans Bay Soldiers Club
8.30 – 9.05 a.m. Registration in Auditorium, Batemans Bay Soldiers Club
9.10 Welcome and acknowledgement of Country (Karen Wilson, President, LSNSW)
9.20 Reassessment of agnostids and trilobites from the lower Wagonga Group, and their significance in dating the oldest rocks of the Narooma Terrane, NSW (Pat Smith)
9.40 Geology of the Lachlan Orogen rocks in coastal exposures around Batemans Bay, New South Wales South Coast (Chris Fergusson)
10.05 An empirical approach to the palaeoecology and depositional environments of the Early Permian Wandrawandian Formation at Ulladulla (Ian Lavering)
10.25 The stones of Singing Stones Beach (Bradley Opdyke)
10.50 – 11.20 Morning tea
11.20 At the crossroads: biogeographic influences on South Coast plants (Patricia Kaye)
11.40 New characters and conceptual change promote taxonomic revision in Grevillea (Proteaceae): a review of species in the south-east of New South Wales (Peter Olde)
12.05 Graminoid monocots in the South Coast botanical region (Karen Wilson)
12.30 Transformation of the White Box Eucalyptus albens – White Cypress Pine Callitris glaucophylla forest in the lower Snowy River Valley of Kosciuszko National Park (1800-2022) (Richard Thackway)
12.55 – 1.50 Buffet lunch (provided)
1.50 William Bäuerlen – prolific collector of South Coast plants (Kevin Mills)
2.10 The Eurobodalla Natural History Society, history and data (Julie Morgan)
2.35 A revolution in entomological observations is occurring (Phil Warburton)
3.00 A long-term study of a bird community on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia (Michael Guppy)
3.30 – 4.00 Afternoon tea
4.00 A Southern Forest’s ecological response to high intensity wildfire (Paul Whitington)
4.25 Rainforest vegetation responses to fires in 2019-2020 on the coast and escarpment in southeastern New South Wales (David Keith)
4.50 Closing remarks and field trip logistics (Ian Percival, Treasurer, LSNSW)
5.00 Close