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FNSSA Lirabenda Endowment Fund Research Grants 2024

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Future events

Important Notice – change of location and dates for future meetings

Due to issues booking the Royal Society Room from the South Australian Museum, we have been forced to change the date and location of the FNSSA General meetings to the Goodman Lecture theatre.

All General meetings after March will be held at this location on the 3rd Wednesday of every Month, except January when no meeting is scheduled.

FNSSA General Meeting – 7:30pm Wednesday April 17th 2024

Location: Goodman Building, Hackney Rd. Click here for a map

Speaker: Peter Watton, President of the Friends of Scott Creek Conservation Park

Topic: Scott Creek Conservation Park: After the Fire

Peter will walk us through the damage to Scott Creek CP from the wildfire in 2021 and the myriad of changes to vegetation and animal life the Friends have been noting since as they actively work to assist natural processes of recovery.

FNSSA General Meeting – 7:30pm Wednesday May 15th 2024

Location: Goodman Building, Hackney Rd. Click here for a map

Speaker: Dr. Sophie Petit & Chloe Danis PhD student: University of South Australia

Topic: Progress in the Kangaroo Island Bat Detection Project

Sophie will bring us up to date with the species and distributional findings of the ongoing Bat species monitoring project on Kangaroo Island while new PhD student Chloe will help us understand how her planned project using new methods of processing bat detection data will work.

FNSSA General Meeting – 7:30pm Wednesday June 19th 2024

Location: Goodman Building, Hackney Rd. Click here for a map

Speaker: John Fargher, Restoration of Fleurieu Swamps Network

Topic: The work of the Swamps Network & progress noted on his own swamp.