The 2024 Serventy Memorial Lecture

The WA Naturalists' Club celebrates its 100-year anniversary with a special lecture by Professor Lyn Beazley AO FAA FTSE.

Many key events in the evolution of our planet and life on it are writ large in Western Australia and have been revealed thanks to work right here. These span from when liquid water first formed, via the demise of the dinosaurs to the present day as an internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot.  Lyn will share some of her favourite stories and celebrate local and global heroes.

As Chief Scientist of Western Australia from 2006 to 2013, Lyn advised the Western Australian Government on science, innovation and technology. In 2009, Lyn was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia and is a Fellow of both the Australian Academies of Science and of Technological Sciences and Engineering.  Lyn was amazed and delighted to be named the WA Australian of the Year for 2015. Currently Lyn is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Conversation of Flatback Turtles on WA’s Northwest Shelf and is especially proud to be a Co-Patron of the WA Naturalists Club.