A constellation of thirty-five events cordinated by Artist and Biodiversity Educator, Angela Rossen, brings children, their families and the wider community together to explore and discover the ocean’s local surprises and secrets. The artworks take the viewer on a journey from the waters edge, through the sunlit shallows, the seagrass meadows and out to the fringing reef.

Day 16 Update from Rachel Austin

Tuesday 19 November 2024

Fruit collected today = 42 900

Total fruit collected in 2024 season = 1 246 764

Seeds dispersed = 602 000

Total hours volunteered = 1 926

Team....we've broken the record! We have now surpassed all other seasons of fruit collection to make this our biggest Seeds for Snapper season yet! Well done!!

'The wonder and beauty of seagrass'

Angela Rossen joins a panel discussion hosted by the Ocean Youth Working Group to celebrate World Seagrass Day. Listen to the ‘Healthy seagrass, healthy planet’ themed discussion to sustaining our oceans and combat climate change.

Liz Sinclair, Marion Cambridge, and Renae Hovey joined the Malgana Aboriginal Corporation Rangers to talk seagrasses and progress on seagras restoration project at Useless Loop.

A picture perfect day for conversations with Angela Rossen about the importance of marine plants and animals, and the care that is taken with placement of stormwater outfalls. 

On a sparkling morning in February the Friends of lluka Foreshore, WA Naturalists’ Club, Birdlife WA, Artist and Biodiversity Educator Angela Rossen, Tessa’s Reptiles, Save Our Marine Life and others gathered for a morning of exciting displays and exploration to discover the living things of the Illuka beach and foreshore.

It's on this week (9 - 12 January 2023)! A mini, conference style event with five speakers per night speaking for 15 minutes and 15 slides each. Marion Cambridge and Rachel Austin will be speaking about ocean science and seagrass restoration.

Amrit Kendrick, science communicator, was David Clarey's guest on Earthchat this week. She is a participant, with her husband Professor Gary Kendrick, in the Shark Bay Seagrass Research and Restoration project. Amrit shares her tales of the sea, environmental science, and the challenges of taking action to preserve and restore a precious and vital aspect of the world's marine ecosystem.

The WA state government is putting together the details for our newest marine park. This will stretch from Bremer Bay to the WA border, recognising and conserving unique marine ecosystems and their plant and animal communities. Angela Rossen speaks with Lori-Ann Shibesh of Parks and Wildlife during her visit to Esperance for the Living Reef Exhibition.

The Living Reef Exhibition displays paintings, drawings and photographs documenting the living organisms of the Great Southern Reef in Esperance. All artworks have been created by the people of Esperance during the Living Reef Festival which was run by Artist in Residence, Angela Rossen.

Students, staff and the Principal from the Useless Loop Primary School spent a morning at Whiting Bay with University of Western Australia researchers and volunteers on 12 September 2022. They came to learn about the seagrasses, wirriya jalyanu to Malgana peoples of the Shark Bay area, and different methods of assisting natural recovery of the large cool water species – wire weed (Amphibolis antarctica) and the giant ribbon weed plant (Posidonia).

Inscription Post, October 2022

Community biodiversity surveys bring together community members, conservation, naturalist organisations and young scientists to celebrate nature and acknowledge the importance of conserving and protecting our shared natural places.

Science meets Art to celebrate seagrass and the local environment with Malgana language and cultural heritage

The Wirriya Jalyanu (seagrass) Festival is the culmination of a two year collaboration between seagrass researchers at the University of Western Australia and the Malgana Rangers as Traditional Owners of Gathaagudu, Shark Bay. The festival provided an opportunity to share knowledge about seagrasses and the environment with the local community.

Dr Sinclair was invited to speak with high school students at the School of Isolated and Distance Education as part of National Science Week, 2020. 

Science talks at this years Hamelin Station Science Fair focussed on a wide range of topics - including seagrasses (Wirriya Jalyanu). It provided an opportunity to bring together four generations of Traditional Owners, meet the new Malgana Indigenous Rangers in training, and 'FollowTheDream' students from Geraldton.

Can traditional ecological knowledge and contemporary science combine to manage marine estates in a time of rapid environmental change? Come and listen to Harri Davies at the City of Perth Library.

Sahira Bell spoke about 'Australia’s Great Southern Reef: Our best kept biodiversity secret' as part of the City of Perth Library's Ocean Series.

Lab members Matthew Fraser and Emily Lester were recently involved in Scitech WA’s 2018 Science Café held at UWA. Science Café is part of National Science Week 2018, and brings together STEM professionals with Year 10 students and their teachers to discuss what it is like to work in the field and inspire our next generation of scientists.

John Statton speaks about 'Marine restoration on the west coast'

Angela Rossen at SCITECH in 2016

Teacher Professional Development Day

Angela Rossen with DPaW

Angela Rossen with a student from the One Arm Point Remote Community School 

Matt Fraser introduces undergraduate students from the UWA marine systems class to the biodiversity of Cottesloe reef. 

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Angela Rossen and the students of St Mary’s Primary School

Angela Rossen and the Mindarie community

Angela Rossen with year 6 students from Cable Beach Primary School 

Observing and recording with the Karajarri Rangers and Angela Rossen at the La Grange Remote Community School

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Angela Rossen with year 6 students at Geraldton Grammar School

West Australian Scientist of the Year, Professor Peter Newman AO, and artist and biodiversity educator Angela Rossen, speak with Understorey about the urgent need for authentic political action on climate change.

Angela Rossen (Honorary Research Associate at SBS) has been undertaking community outreach on behalf of the School. See her short documentary on the South Coast Community Biodiversity Survey from May 2017.

Angela Rossen’s passion for the natural world spills into her artworks and community outreach bringing diverse communities to an understanding of whole systems ecology. Using every tool at her disposal, and encouraging us all to do the same. Elizabeth Po from RTR FM 92.1 speaks with Angela...

John Statton talks about working with a group of students from South Fremantle SHS marine specialist program, on a small marine research project. The project involved transplanting the seagrass Posidonia australis into an historically degraded seagrass habitat in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia.

The Geraldton community have joined artist Angela Rossen in a biodiversity project to discover and document the living things of the Geraldton coast.

Wetland Biodiversity Painting created by the Chrysalis Montessori students in an Art Science Workshop with Angela Rossen in April 2019

Painting the living things of the tidal mud flats.

Cable Beach Primary School

Photo: Angela Rossen

Painting fish of the seagrass meadow.

Geraldton Primary School

Photo: Angela Rossen