Speakers

The Malaspina Naturalists typically host 6-8  invited speakers each year, usually on the 3rd or 4th Thursday of each month, from September through May.

  • Speaker meetings are usually held at Royal Canadian Legion (see the map).
  • Meetings generally start with tea and cookies at  ~7:00 PM, with the speaker beginning a half-hour or so later.
  • Dates and times are flexible; we need to accommodate speaker-availability and travel conditions.
  • Club members receive last-minute schedule-change notifications via email
    Non-members don’t.

Our meetings are a great way to meet new people and learn interesting things.

We hope you’ll take in one of our upcoming speakers and decide to join us!

 

Some memorable images from previous talks…
(click on any image to start a full-screen slide-viewer, and hit “esc” or “close” to return)

Anomalocaris, the “strange shrimp” that isn’t a shrimp at all
“Exploring the Burgess Shale” (2015)
– National Science Foundation
An “atmospheric river”, aka the “Pineapple Express”
“Pacific Storms” (2014)
– D. Atkinson
It looked rather cold
“Antarctica” (2015)
– M. Moore
One of the “day geckos” (genus Phelsuma)
“Madagascar” (2014)
– B. Merilees
Planetary Nebula NGC 2818
“From Backyard Astonomy to Extremely Large Telescopes” (2016)
– NASA
Dancers at Choiseul, Solomon Islands
“Melanesian Marvels” (2015)
– R. Rudland
Tuari the Harris’ Hawk wows the crowd
“YVR Raptors: the science and art of Falconry” (2017)
– A. Bryant
Purple sea star
“Nature Photography” (2012)
– D. Bedry
Hiking the North Powell Divide
“In the footsteps of the Greats” (2012)
– M. Jones
Penguins at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia
“South Geogia and Antarctica” (2015)
– C. Phillips
The lovely Pink Tritonia nudibranch
“Marine Life of the Strait of Georgia” (2016)
– R. Harbo
Marmot “326-right”
“Recovery of Vancouver Island marmots” (2012)
– A. Bryant
Grizzly with salmon
“Coastal Grizzly Bears” (2012)
– J. Scarrow
I didn’t tell them I was an oceanographer
“Tides, currents and sailing the waters of BC” (2017)
– R. Dewey
Fishermen, White-backed pelicans and Maribou storks
“Ethiopia: a birding extravaganza” (2016)
– N. Hughes