Research trip to Mount Gower to monitor palm regrowth. This four-day trip with Andrew Denham and John Porter from NSW DoPIE was to monitor the regrowth in the two Mountain …
Twenty-two people participated in this, the 90th weeding Ecotour on Lord Howe Island. It was a mix of regular long-term Friends members, and we also welcomed quite a few people …
This was the fourth Sea Slug Census for Lord Howe Island, an event organised by Stephen Smith at Southern Cross University and hosted by the Lord Howe island Museum.
I have been lucky enough to see two waves of bird increases on the island. In the late 1970s wild pigs were removed from the mountains, the rangers trapped feral …
2019 September 9 to 16. Annual land bird surveys for pre-rodent eradication monitoring with Canberra Ornithological Group volunteers. The weather delayed flight arrival by one day, but the remainder of …
2019 August 31 to Sept 7 Friends of Lord Howe Island weeding ecotour (number 89). 18 people along to enjoy the week contributing to conservation and learning about the island. …
2019 June 28 to July 5. Field trip for Island Biology with Victoria University Wellington. Sixteen students keen to learn about Lord Howe Island and all of the island biology …
2019 June 8 the first of the helicopter bait drops to distribute rodents baits across the cliffs and mountain areas of the island. The culmination of 15 years planning to …
2019 June 8 to 15. Friends of Lord Howe Island weeding ecotour (number 88). 24 people along to continue war on weeds on the island, and also assist with Rodent …
2019 May Ground baiting for the Rodent Eradication commences in the settlement areas. A ground crew of some 50 people to place bait in each one of 19,000 bait stations.
2019 April 26 to May 10. The annual Flesh footed shearwater chick plastic monitoring program from. The fifteenth year of monitoring, showing plastic is still a problem for this species. …
2019 August 10 to 17 Beetle Citizen Science week with Chris Reid from the Australian Museum. Day time and night time excursions around the island to survey different habitats for …
In 2017 Sanny Saito from JAMSTEC visited the island to look for evidence of xenoliths – granite inclusions in basalt rock, This was a hunch that when the Lord Howe …
With researchers Andrew Denham and John Porter. We spent a few days on Mount Gower summit continuing surveys looking at the impact of rodents on the two mountain palm species. …
French researcher Serge Andrefouet was on the island to do surveys of the clam species Tridacna maxima.Lord Howe Island has the most southerly breeding location in the world of this species, …
This was the second Sea Slug Census held at Lord Howe Island with Steve Smith and Matt Nimbs from the National Marine Science Centre at Coffs harbour. Matt and Steve …
Julian Hume from NHM London was in Australia to examine subfossil bird bones held in Canberra that had been collected on Lord Howe island in the 1970’s. As part of …
A week carrying out landbird surveys as part of pre rodent eradication monitoring. This is the 5th survey and we visited 96 sites for 10 minute bird counts, twice each …
In July the Lord Howe Island Museum and Australian Museum as part of Conservation Volunteers program ran a Beetle Week. Dr Chris Reid from A. M. and I led the …
Thirteen students from Victoria University Wellington New Zealand came to the island for a week to go out into the field and observe, measure and test the various Island Biology …
In conjunction with the National Marine Science Institute at Coffs Harbour we ran the first Sea Slug census for Lord Howe Island. Over the weekend locals and visitors took part …
In September the 3rd Landbird surveys were carried out on the island. This is part of pre-rodent eradication monitoring and was carried out with volunteers from Canberra Ornithological G roup.
The fourth year this has run, and another great group of 12 enthusiastic students keen to lean about how plant and animal species reach an island; and the process that …
The team this year consisted of Ian Hutton, Jennifer Lavers Alex Bond and various volunteers over for periods through the fortnight to assist. The Flesh footed shearwaters had the usuals …