Eucalypt Identification Workshop – October 24-25

REGISTRATION OPEN

Location

Revesby Workers Club plus local field sites
2B Brett St, Revesby

Date

Thursday 24 October  – Friday 25 October 2024

Time 

9am – 5pm

Cost

$350 members; $450 non-members

(includes morning tea and lunch)
This Eucalypt identification course will include classroom sessions each morning, followed by a field component each afternoon.
Day 1 will focus on Hawkesbury Sandstone eucalypts.
Day 2 will focus on eucalypts of the Cumberland plain and related communities.
This course is largely aimed at people in the early stages of learning eucalypt identification or for those unfamiliar with the species in the two focus ecological communities.

Presenter – Dan Clarke

Dan Clarke is Director / Senior Botanist at Arcane Botanica Pty Ltd.

Dan has acquired over 12 years’ experience as a botanical consultant, working on flora assessments and threatened species surveys, large-scale vegetation surveys, weed surveys and implementing conservation management strategies in many areas of NSW.

He has been engaged as a sub-consultant by multiple companies in the ecological industry of NSW for extensive field survey work. Dan is also a currently a collector of Genbank specimen material for the National Herbarium of NSW.

Dan is a full practicing member of the Ecological Consultants Association of NSW.

Stemming from an early background in bushland regeneration, Dan has taught at NSW TAFE DIGITAL and Padstow campuses during 2011 to 2021 as a casual Conservation and Land Management Teacher, teaching botany and plant identification, soil assessment, mapping, work health and safety and bushland regeneration techniques. Dan continues to have an online assessment-marking role at TAFE NSW

What you need to bring:
  • Pen and paper
  • Hand lens
  • Eucalypt specimens you may like to share with the class (please bring leaves, fruits, buds and a photo of the tree)
  • Suitable clothes and footwear each day for the field component
  • Hat
  • Water bottle
  • Raincoat

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