Celebrate Science Week on KI this Sunday at the all-ages event, ‘Spines, Scats and Six Legs: exploring echidnas, poop and insects on Kangaroo Island’. 

Two free sessions will be held at 10am and 2pm, in the Jamie Larcombe Hall at the Parndana campus of Kangaroo Island Community Education (KICE).

Leading echidna ecologist Dr Peggy Rismiller from the Pelican Lagoon Research and Wildlife Centre will entertain the audience with the secrets she’s uncovered after studying the unique creatures for more than 30 years. 

Dr Rismiller has also been tracking the recovery of the island’s short-beaked echidna population following the 2019/2020 bushfires. 

Dr Tahlia Perry of Adelaide University will talk about her work with citizen scientists through the EchidnaCSI project. 

For more than 10 years the project has been studying the biology of echidnas and platypuses using scats collected by the public.

Entomologist Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, also of Adelaide University, will talk about the insects that live all around us and how to identify them. 

She is also passionate about getting citizen scientists involved in research and has been working with schools across the Riverland, Eyre Peninsula and Adelaide Hills to catch and identify wasps and other insects.

Register for either of the free sessions via the following link.

https://www.scienceweek.net.au/event/from-echidnas-to-insects-on-kangaroo-island/seddon/