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First Curious Minds Season 8 Lecture: Blue Carbon

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For the first talk in our 8th Curious Minds season, Professor Bill Austin from St Andrews spoke about “Blue Carbon”.

Oceans absorb 30% of our CO2 emissions and 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases. But some marine habitats can sequester 10 times as much Carbon per acre as a terrestrial forest.

Professor Austin Bill spoke about the potential benefits of Blue Carbon and about government initiatives, both in Scotland and beyond, to conserve this vital and useful habitat.

This video is available in 4k on YouTube:

 

For further investigation, see:

Project Seagrass: https://www.projectseagrass.org/

Blue Carbon at St Andrews: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/…/sustainability/blue-carbon/

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Perth Festival of the Arts: Photographic Section Exhibition

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We are pleased to announce that our Photographic Section, the Perthshire Photographic Society, are holding an online exhibition in association with the Perth Festival of the Arts, from now until June 20 2021.

Read more about it and visit the exhibition on their webpage: PPS: the exhibition is open

1898 Flora of Perthshire by Francis Buchanan White

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The outstanding work of Francis Buchanan White, the founder of the PSNS, was published post humously under the editorship of Professor James W H Traill , Aberdeen, who was an Orcadian born botanist and also edited the Scottish Naturalist Magazine founded by FB White. It includes contributions by other members including the Birnam Postie, Charles Macintosh. Charles was a self-taught amateur naturalist from Inver, near Dunkeld, discovered 13 varieties of fungi, and was friends with Beatrix Potter.

1895 Museum extension opened

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On 29 Nov 1895 the Museum extension was opened by Sir William Henry Fowler, Director of the British Museum and a comparative anatomist.

It housed the Perthshire Gallery, a collection of local animals, plants and rocks. The ground floor contained the vertebrate animals and in the gallery above were plants, insects, shells, rocks, minerals and fossils. At the time the Museum was declared one of the best in layout and design in Scotland.