Australia with Dennis Paulson and Netta Smith - November/December 2021 - YVAS Program
General ·Australia with Dennis Paulson and Netta Smith - December 2021 - YVAS ProgramTravel with Dennis Paulson and Netta Smith to Queensland, Australia's most diverse and exciting state. Check out the birds and other animals of a wide range of habitats from rain forests to open woodlands to mud flats, with a side trip to a reef-fringed island of the Great Barrier Reef. Their visit in December 2018 was right in the middle of the southern-hemisphere summer, with hot days and occasional rain. You are likely to agree that this small corner of Australia is a naturalist's paradise. Dennis Paulson grew up in Miami, exposed to nature in all its glory while southern Florida was still largely unspoiled. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Miami with a study of the dragonflies of southern Florida, and shortly thereafter he moved to Seattle, where he has lived ever since. He retired as the Director of the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound. Dennis has taught at three universities and continues to teach adult-education courses in many venues. He has also led nature tours and traveled on his own to all continents, and he has studied dragonflies and birds worldwide and published over 100 scientific papers and a dozen books, mostly on his favorite animals. He is an enthusiastic nature photographer, with photos published in magazines, books and interpretive displays.
Posted by Yakima Valley Audubon Society on Sunday, December 5, 2021
Dennis Paulson grew up in Miami, exposed to nature in all its glory while southern Florida was still largely unspoiled. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Miami with a study of the dragonflies of southern Florida, and shortly thereafter he moved to Seattle, where he has lived ever since. He retired as the Director of the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound. Dennis has taught at three universities and continues to teach adult-education courses in many venues. He has also led nature tours and traveled on his own to all continents, and he has studied dragonflies and birds worldwide and published over 100 scientific papers and a dozen books, mostly on his favorite animals. He is an enthusiastic nature photographer, with photos published in magazines, books and interpretive displays.
