Members of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society (BNSS) created Birthday cards for Dr Jane’s 90th Birthday. And a beautiful Jane Goodall Rose bush will be planted in the BNSS gardens to honour Jane Goodall’s 90th Birthday. Happy 90th Birthday Dr Jane from everyone at BNSS!
Read Birthday cards from the Bournemouth Natural Science Society for Dr Jane for her 90th! in full
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Many of you will have attended the talk about the Great Big Dorset Hadge Project given by Julie Leah on Tuesday 3rd October.
More information about the project and how to volunteer for it was given in Julie’ last slides which you can view here
Following the Dr Sophia D. AMENYAH’s talk on 11th March she provides us with some information about events:
Healthy Life Healthy Brain Project
• Date: Wednesday 26th April 2023
• Time: 5-7pm
• Venue: Bournemouth Gateway Building, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP
• Refreshments will be provided
• We will share our experiences of the project and our key findings
Register for the event here
ADRC virtual coffee mornings
2nd Wednesday of the month
online via Zoom
10.00-11-00
A different presenter each month
Topics on healthier ageing and conditions that affect ageing
Q & A
Everyone welcome
Further Information or to book a place email adrc@bournemouth.ac.uk or phone 01202 962526
Link to Sophia’s March 11th talk here
This summer Jill Abbot entered the BNSS Garden into Bournemouth in Bloom Competition. At the October presentations we were gratified to be awarded Tree of Excellence grading for our three tree submissions: our Loquat for Small Ornamental or Flowering Tree; our Tulip Tree for Champion Tree – notable for sheer size, age or heritage value, or an example of an uncommon species; our Sweet Chestnut for Tree Contributing to Bio-diversity – good for bees or provider of habitat or food source for bats, birds or mammals.
The latter actually won a trophy and plaque as the Overall Winner in the category.
We were also presented with a Gold Award for our back garden in the Environmentally Friendly Spaces category.
Following the recent talk here are a number of links which may be of interest.
Recycling Video – https://youtu.be/8DAk8m7sVM4
Bournemouth Repair Café – Bournemouth Repair Cafe – Transition Bournemouth (wordpress.com)
Win on Waste – We’re winning on waste (winonwaste.org)
Dorset Scrapstore – Dorset Scrapstore For All Your Crafting Needs
BCP Council Recycling – Bins, waste and recycling (bcpcouncil.gov.uk)
Consistency in collections – Consistency in collections | WRAP
Following on from our recent talk the following may be of interest.
Find out more and help conserve the smooth snake by:
How about this for a guided walk?
Event type: Guided walk of Parley Common Nature Reserve
This walk will be a slow paced walk stopping to look at features of the heathland habitat as we talk through it. Maximum 12 spaces.
In a ‘Zoom’ talk in January entitled “From mosquito bites to sniffer dogs” new BNSS member and volunteer, entomologist Dr. Sophie Wulff, gave us insight into the work going on at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She started by describing what is known about how female mosquitoes detect humans in order to obtain their blood meal. She then went on to tell us about experimental work in Africa showing how the malaria parasite which is transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito can change human odour to make mosquitoes more attracted to malaria-infected children and potentially increase transmission. Since dogs have a sense of smell up many times better than us they have begun to be used by scientists to try and detect human diseases by odour. So far, there has been work on certain types of cancer, Type 1 diabetes and recently, and topically, on those infected with Covid-19. She described some ongoing trials involving LSHTM and Durham University (more detail here) and work published from France & Germany. Finland is currently using sniffer dogs at Helsinki airport in a test using swabs from passenger’s skin which takes only one minute (more here).
As the BNSS is an associate member of the Quekett Microscopy Club, BNSS members are invited to enter either of two competitions as part of Quekex 2020 closing date 10th September 2020. The first competition is “Lockdown Microscopy“. The scope of this exhibition is deliberately wide to encourage as many people as possible to take part. There is no minimum requirement and entries can be as detailed as you choose to include an article, presentation or slideshow. In the second competition, Micrographic Art, the art can take any format. Drawing from microscope image for the purpose of recording as an alternative to photography, a photo, painting, textiles, model etc and should be accompanied by a title and description of the subject. Further details of both competitions here.
The last few weeks has seen two talks with an ‘ecological bent’. First Patrick Abbot described a Green Economic Growth programme in Papua. Part funded through the UK Government’s Climate Change initiative, it aims to develop sustainable low carbon developments in two Indonesian provinces. In an area still with 93% forest cover, the Programme is assisting local villagers and small businesses to set up systems for growing and marketing high value produce in a way that is compatible with maintaining the natural forest. In a partnership agreed between the UKCCU and the Indonesian Government, Patrick’s company provides expertise in research, technical assistance and skills development – more information here. Second, Bob Crooks talked about the staggering volumes of e-waste we are all producing and the metals used in electronic devices which we might need to mine rubbish dumps for. It made us all feel guilty about our own e-waste lurking in drawers in our homes – lecture details here
Second year BA (Hons) Fine Art students from the Arts University Bournemouth developed artworks in response to three partner organisations of which BNSS was one. Unfortunately, these did not result in public exhibitions due to the covid-19 pandemic. However, you can see some of student artists’ work here especially in the section on “Contemporary Artefacts” (from Steve Limburn, BNSS Education Officer)
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