Free lectures at museum.What's on What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour TV series that airs on Fairchild Television. Format Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. at NHSN NHSN National Healthcare Safety Network NHSN National Hispanic Sales Network (Downers Grove, IL) NHSN Nashua High School North (Nashua, New Hampshire) - the Natural History Society of Northumbria's free lecture series, held in the Great North Museum: Hancock, from 7pm to 8.30pm. Entry via the right side entrance. For more information contact NHSN on (0191) 232 6386 November 13 2009: Philippa Mitchell: Saving the Red Squirrel - Highlights and the Future Save our Squirrels (SoS) has been running for more than three years and has had a number of successes, particularly with raising the profile of the Red Squirrel and keeping the public interest in one of England's most threatened species. However, not all has gone to plan and Philippa from SoS will investigate what lessons have been learned and explore the direction that SoS and Red Squirrel conservation is taking now and into the future. The main threat still is the grey squirrel and the squirrelpox virus, so what is being done to reduce this threat and what have we learnt in the last few years? November 20 2009: John Richards: Sex and the Single Plant In most flowering plants, both gender functions (male = pollen and female = ovules) occur within the same flower and selfing becomes a possibility. But although some flowers do self-fertilise, plants have evolved a myriad of physical strategies to avoid self-pollination and self-fertilisation. In this talk, some of the physical mechanisms that prevent selfing will be explored. This is a very visual subject, and the talk will be abundantly illustrated. John Richards is Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of Newcastle University of Newcastle can refer to:
Symbiotic associations of fungi (mycobionts) and photosynthetic partners (photobionts). These associations always result in a distinct morphological body termed a thallus that may adhere tightly to the substrate or be leafy, stalked, or hanging. and Air Pollution Many lichens are sensitive to air pollution, and industry and agriculture have led to significant changes in their distribution over the last 250 years. One of the pioneers in this field was Dr Oliver Gilbert, who worked in Newcastle in the 1970s. His air pollution map, produced from lichen lichen (lī`kən), usually slow-growing organism of simple structure, composed of fungi (see Fungi) and photosynthetic green algae or cyanobacteria living together in a symbiotic relationship and resulting in a structure that resembles neither records gathered by thousands of schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school is now out of date. The Lottery-funded Open Air Laboratories (OPAL opal (ō`pəl), a mineral consisting of poorly crystalline to amorphous silica, SiO2·nH2O; the water content is quite variable but usually ranges from 3% to 10%. ) project aims to create and inspire a new generation of nature-lovers by encouraging people to explore, study, enjoy and protect their local environment. One of their national surveys is using lichens to investigate air quality across England, and visitors will be invited to take part. Dr Janet Simkin is a freelance ecologist and lichenologist li·chen·ol·o·gy n. The branch of biology that deals with the study of lichens. li  chen·ol . Katy
Barnard is education officer for OPAL North East.
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