Sarah Lloyd – “Myxomycetes at Black Sugarloaf – a slime mould hotspot”
Time and Place:
Thursday 2nd October
7.15 pm for a 7.30 pm start
UTAS Sandy Bay Campus in the Law Building Seminar Room (Room 132)
About
Sarah Lloyd’s passion for natural history began in early childhood with a love of birds. After moving to a tall wet eucalypt forest in central north Tasmania in 1988 and joining the Central North Field Naturalists, her interests broadened to include plants, bryophytes, invertebrates and fungi.
Since 2010 Sarah has been preoccupied with acellular slime moulds, the myxomycetes. She has collected more than 1600 specimens representing over 115 species at her forested home at Black Sugarloaf, Birralee. She reminds us that slime moulds are not fungi – they are amoebae.
Registration for non-members (not required).
Non-members are welcome. If you think that the club is a good fit for you and you would like to regularly attend events then we ask you sign up as a member (https://tasfieldnats.org.au/member)
Venue
We use the rear entrance to the building and access is easy – from the corner of Grosvenor St and Alexander St (see red star and arrows on map) walk down the laneway on the northern side of the Law Building and enter via the sliding doors at the back of the building. There should be plenty of parking available close by along Grosvenor St just past View St or on Dobson Road which is one-way down (see green squares). Sometimes sports practice is taking a lot of the parking along Grosvenor Crescent by the oval. Bring a torch if you are worried about the footpaths.
On entry into the lower foyer please enter your name and phone number on the meeting attendance sheet. Access will be from 7.15pm.
Hope to see you there!
We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we study natural history.