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Bournemouth in Bloom 2024
October 30, 2024BNSS was again recognised in the Bournemouth in Bloom competition for 2024. Our venerable Sweet Chestnut tree again won the Cup, and a Gold Certificate as a “Tree Contributing to Bio-diversity.“ The Ginkgo biloba tree was also awarded Gold, as was the back garden in the “Environmentally Friendly Spaces” category, and under “Large Public Spaces” […]
Photography Competition 2024
June 10, 2024The Photography Competition for 2024 is NOW OPEN Send your entries, up to 3 for each category, Landscapes, Plants and Fungi, and Wildlife and each category will be awarded 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended for both Adult and “Young Explorers”. All entries must be taken within Dorset or Hampshire during 2024, and you must be a ‘Young Explorer’ to enter that section of the competition. ***New […]
Birthday cards from the Bournemouth Natural Science Society for BNSS Patron Dr Jane for her 90th!
April 9, 2024Members 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 […]
Glynn’s pictures
November 27, 2023Many members watched Glynn Gorick’s BNSS Zoom presentation on the 21st November in which he discussed his wonderful artworks. These were produced for scientists and many environmental organisations. Those wishing to see more of his images can find them HERE.
Bournemouth in Bloom – Winners
November 18, 2023Members will be pleased to know that BNSS did well again this year in the Bournemouth in Bloom Competition. The Ginkgo Biloba came top of the Champion Tree category, winning a Silver Gilt certificate and a shield. The Sweet Chestnut also won a Silver Gilt certificate, came top of the Trees Contributing to BioDiversity category […]
Great Big Dorset Hedge
October 18, 2023Many 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
Research Study on Memory
April 25, 2023BNSS Members may wish to become involved in a research project at Bournemouth University. Two PhD students are looking for volunteers for an ethically approved study supervised by Professor Hana Burianova and Dr Ala Yankouskaya. This healthy ageing research involves younger and older adults undergoing tests and MRI scans. More information and contact information is […]
BNSS Photography Competition 2022 Exhibition and Awards Ceremony
April 14, 2023The BNSS Photography Competition 2022 Exhibition and Awards Ceremony will take place on: 22nd April 2023 at: 2.30pm-6pm Event will be “in house” in the BNSS Lecture Theatre details of results here
BrainFit: Further Information and Links
March 22, 2023Following 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 […]
BNSS Garden Success
October 20, 2022This 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, […]
Recycle More, Waste Less links
May 11, 2022Following 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 […]
Holes Bay Nature Report
April 25, 2022Members may be interested in the Holes Bay Nature Report (NB. This is large document with over 150 pages) The annual Holes Bay Nature Report aims to promote Holes Bay and the surrounding area as a haven for nature; to record and share wildlife sightings and to encourage more records. The recording area covers Holes […]
Snakes in the Heather
April 22, 2022Following on from our recent talk the following may be of interest. Find out more and help conserve the smooth snake by: Buying your copy of ARC’s children’s story book: https://www.arc-trust.org/shop/in-search-of-old-uncle-blue Reading about the project: arc-trust.org/snakes-in-the-heather Volunteering with ARC: arc-trust.org/volunteering-with-arc Becoming an ARC member: arc-trust.org/join Signing-up to ARC eNews: arc-trust.org/arc-enews Sponsoring the smooth snake: arc-trust.org/sponsor-smooth-snakes Following ARC on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedinand […]
More Village Vernacular
December 1, 2021Those of you who enjoyed John Hubbard’s Zoom talk on “Village Vernacular” on the 30th of November may wish to follow up this interesting architectural topic. We are grateful for John sharing the source of his illustrations and references below: ILLUSTRATIONS Images of villages from the early twentieth century can be found on the Facebook […]
Autistic Spectrum Condition Talk
October 31, 2021Many members will have heard Dr. Rachel Moseley’s illuminating Zoom talk to BNSS “Life through a different lens, the brain science of autism” on Tuesday 26th October. She has kindly provided us with her slides from the talk which members who attended, and those who didn’t, may wish to see. The final slides have many […]
Deadline Extended for BNSS Photographic Competition 2021
October 2, 2021The deadline for the BNSS Photographic competition has been extended until November 30th 2021. Further details here
Artist exhibits
July 3, 2021One of our members Marisa Mann has been selected to show some of her wildlife and ecology paintings at the Affordable Art exhibition in London on behalf of Arts 4 Dementia. Further details here
BNSS Launches 2021 Photographic Competition
March 31, 2021New Chair of Photography Eleni Dimitriou has launched the 2021 Photographic Competition with 3 categories Plants & Fungi, Landscapes and Wildlife. For full details see poster below.
Mosquitoes, covid-19 & dogs
March 1, 2021In 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 […]
Solent Oyster Restoration Project
September 24, 2020Dr. Luke Helmer gave an interesting talk via Zoom on trying to re-establish oysters in certain sites in the Solent on Tuesday 22nd September. Those of you who wish to follow up this research and make a contribution to his Virtual London to Monaco bike ride in support of the charity fighting to protect our […]
Lockdown Microscopy & Micrographic Art
August 27, 2020As 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 […]
BNSS ‘goes green’ via Zoom
July 17, 2020The 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 […]
Student Art inspired by the BNSS
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” […]
Ocean Plastic, Plankton and Lizards
May 20, 2020BNSS members have attended two Zoom lectures in the last two weeks on marine subjects and one of our members has submitted a film on lizards. On 19th May, Mary Thornton gave us a lecture on “Microplastics in Oceans” about the all girl crews researching ocean plastic pollution. This elicited a lively discussion after the […]
‘Zoom’ BNSS lectures
April 30, 2020On Tuesday 14th April BNSS launched its first ‘Zoom’ lecture by James Fradgley on “How the eye works – an astronomer’s perspective” followed on 21st April by: Ashley Leftwich on “Ancient Woodland – What is it, where is it and how do I know I am in it !!” and then on 28th April by: […]
Website Changes – members please contribute your news
We have been making a few changes to the website to make it more responsive to the current situation due to the covid-19 pandemic. This has been made possible with the help of our volunteer Richard Griffin who has run the website on a Raspberry Pi in order to troubleshoot the changes made. The major […]
Museum Closed
March 16, 2020FOLLOWING ADVICE, THE MUSUEM IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO THE CURRENT CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.
