As part of National Science Week 2022, the Museum of Geraldton are featuring three Western Australian herpetologists for Public Talk: Wildlife Research in Action on Wednesday 17 August.

Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles, and new and exciting discoveries within the Western Australian Museum Collections and Research continue to be made every year.

Western Australian Museum Herpetology Curator Dr Paul Doughty said that discovering and describing a new species is like making a new friend and that there is nothing like having a Kimberley rock hole at night as your working office.

“Like lots of kids, I was into dinosaurs and space. But when I was a teenager, I got good at catching lizards and snakes as my family was never too far from the bush when I was growing up,” Dr Doughty said.

“It was during an animal behaviour class at university that I realised I could be a scientist and continue to catch reptiles.”

Public Talk: Wildlife Research in Action is an insightful talk with Dr Paul Doughty as well as Dr Renee Catullo from the University of Western Australia and Dr Damian Lettoof from Curtin University.

Learn about new species of reptiles and frogs, conservation genetics and the effects of pollution on tiger snakes in the south-west, and maybe the odd furry creature too.

This event shows science is about so much more than microscopes and Bunsen-Burners.

This free public talk at the Museum of Geraldton is on Wednesday 17 August 6 – 7pm and is part of National Science Week 2022.

Online bookings are essential, to book visit: https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/geraldton/public-talk-wildlife-research-action

For the full National Science Week 2022 program and for more information, visit https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/national-science-week

 

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