Dec 132019
 

Speaker: Tony Young – The Michael Howie Slides

Due to unforseen technical difficulties, Tony was unable to give this presentation at the December 2019 meeting. He will be back in February, even more eager to talk about and show us the works of this remarkable artist.

PLEASE NOTE the NEW TIME: 4.00-6.00 pm
Location: FM Bailey room, Queensland Herbarium, Mt Coot-tha.

Queensland Herbarium
Dec 132019
 

Applications have closed. All workshop positions have been filled.

Participants: All who wish to do collecting under the QMS Permit in 2020.
This includes current ‘Assistant Researchers’ (not compulsory, but useful revision), and any new members who want to join the team.

Date: 27th January, 2020
Time: 9.30am to 3.00pm
Venue: Albion Peace and Community Centre, 102 McDonald Road Windsor, Brisbane, QLD 4030.

The Centre is close to a railway station and also has plenty of parking on site.

Programme Outline:
9.30 – 9.45am Welcome, Housekeeping & Why collect (Fran)
9.45 – 10am What makes a good collection (including number of fruit bodies, photos, condition, variation etc.)
10 – 10.15am Equipment Check list
10.15 – 10.30am Morning tea (provided)
10.30 – 11.00am How to collect individual morphogroups.
11 – 11.15am What to note when collecting e.g.unique number, substrate, habitat, associated vegetation, type of rot, weather (Post-fire etc), odour.
11.15 – 12.30pm Describing the collection
12.30 – 12.45pm Lunch (bring your own)
12.45 – 1.00pm Making a spore print
1.00 – 1.20pm Drying and storing collections
1.20 – 2.50pm Different morphogroups – special interest / Adopt a species or group.
2.50 – 3.00pm Wrap up and clean up.

For information about this event please email: memsec[at]qldfungi.org.au