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Feb 18 2021

Seagrass Volunteers Wanted

Volunteers wanted!
Seagrass monitoring starts on Sunday February 28th 3:30pm at Town Beach.
Under guidance of a team leader, volunteers meet every three months to monitor seagrass in Roebuck Bay. Volunteers are vital to monitoring and everybody is welcome! Bring a hat, water bottle and closed shoes. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Seagrasses are one of the most important plants on the planet. They are the basis of the food web in the ocean, absorb nutrients from runoff and stabilise sediment. Seagrass is food for turtles and dugongs and habitat for thousands of smaller marine animals, playing a vital role in sustaining fisheries.


Jan 18 2021

2021 Seagrass events

The Broome Seagrass Community Monitoring Project  will be running events in 2021, although are unable to provide any official Seagrass-Watch training events due to travel uncertainties for Seagrass-Watch scientists to travel from Queensland.  We hope this situation changes soon!

Until then we ask if any of you who have experience or previous training to let me know if you are likely to be able to attend any of the scheduled dates so we can continue to support the inexperienced members of our community that are interested in participating.

Please find the latest October 2020 Roebuck Bay Seagrass-Watch Report Card » 

Thanks for your care and support of amazing Roebuck Bay!


Sep 20 2018

Microblitz: Citizen Science To Dig

September 26, 2018
MICROBLITZ: CITIZEN SCIENCE TO DIG!

With the help of MicroBlitz citizen scientists, Professor Andy Whitely is mapping the biodiversity, abundance and distribution of microbes in WA’s ancient and unique soils.

Professor Whiteley will discuss the purpose and potential of the MicroBlitz project, then show a chapter of Deborah Koons Garcia’s film, ‘Symphony of the Soil’. Drawing on ancient knowledge and cutting edge science, ‘Symphony of the Soil’ gently unfurls the miracles and mysteries of the ground beneath our feet.

Where The Hall, University of Notre
Dame, 88 Guy St Broome
When Wed Sept 26, 6 – 7:30 pm
Free Gold coin donations welcome
More Info www.roebuckbay.org.au/science-on-the-broome-coast-series/list-of-presentations-from-the-2018-series/ 

 


Oct 7 2016

Tackling litter

source-reduction-workshop-facebook-1There is positive momentum (monthly clean-ups) to reduce debris in Roebuck Bay. To keep the momentum, RBWG and Tangaroa Blue are holding a Litter and Pollution Reduction Workshop to reduce marine debris. As Heidi Taylor from Tangaroa Blue said, “If all we do is clean-up, that’s all we’ll ever do. Understanding where litter and marine debris is coming from, enables us to tackle the release at the source, reducing the amount of litter entering the beautiful Broome environment in the first place.”

FREE WORKSHOP coordinated by Heidi Taylor from Tangaroa Blue
October 20, 9-1pm
Morning tea and lunch provided
RSVP info@roebuckbay.org.au


Sep 27 2016

Remarkable animals in the mudflats

2016-science-talk-11Recognising the intertidal mudats of Roebuck Bay/Eighty Mile Beach as critical for up to 200,000 wintering migratory shorebirds, Professor Piersma and his team collaborated with DEC (then) to establish research projects to understand these biodiverse wetland wonders. From the research undertaken since 1997, what has been discovered about these invertebrates? 

‘The remarkable animals of Roebuck Bay and Eighty Mile Beach’, University of Notre Dame Multipurpose Hall, Thur Oct 6, 6pm.

FREE event, gold coin donations welcome 

Sponsored by Inspiring Australia, Rangelands NRM through the Federal Government Landcare Program, Western Australia Government’s State NRM Program, supported by Royalties for Regions, WA Marine Science Institution, Department of Parks and Wildlife and The University of Notre Dame.

The Science on Broome Coast series is put on by Roebuck Bay Working Group and the Yawuru Land and Sea Unit.


Sep 22 2016

Let’s cleanup Roebuck Bay Sun 25 Sept

rbckbayJoin Environs Kimberley and Broome Chamber of Commerce this Sunday, 25 September for a public clean up along the foreshore of Roebuck Bay. Meet at Streeter’s Jetty at 7:00am and bring your gloves, hat and water bottle. We’ll provide water, fresh fruit and delicious cakes… oh and bags, too. No need to register, just turn up. For more info call Jules on 9192 1922 or email »


May 26 2016

Sea turtles and their reproduction

Dr Scott Whiting, Principal Research Scientist with Parks and Wildlife together with a Yawuru Ranger, will share their knowledge about the turtles of Roebuck Bay and the Kimberley coast and their reproduction.

Sea Turtles: Iconic ambassadors linking marine habitats… University of Notre Dame Multipurpose Hall, Wednesday, June 8 at 6pm.

Free event: Gold coin donations welcome.

Science on Broome Coast is sponsored by Inspiring Australia, Yawuru Land and Sea Unit, WA Marine Science Institution, University of Notre Dame,  Department of Parks and Wildlife, Rangelands NRM through funding from the Federal Government Landcare Program.

This innovative science series is put on by Roebuck Bay Working Group and the Yawuru Land and Sea Unit.


Feb 23 2016

Town Beach cleanup on Sunday

Clean Up Australia DayBroome’s coast is magnificent, however it gets loved to death and needs TLC!  Come along and help clean up this Sunday – March 6, from 7-9am.  Conservation Volunteers Australia are running the event. broome@cva.org.au 9192 6198


Sep 7 2015

Inaugural film fest great success

There has been so much positive, heart warming feedback from community and visitors about our Broome’s first Roebuck Bay Mud and Saltwater Short Film Fest. Special thanks to:

THe sponsors: Rangelands NRM through the Federal National Landcare Program, Inspiring Australia.
Prizes: Dick Smith Broome, Broome Whale Watching, Broome Bird Observatory
Donors: Pindan Printing, The Mangrove Hotel
MUD AND SALTwater judges: Paul Bell, Mark Jones and Neil Turner
Filmmaking tutors: Shayne Thomson, Jaye Smoker
Filmmakers/musicians for help with films: Paul Bell, Mark Jones, Kimberley and Dot West, Mark Cochrane, Rob Fadaely, musician Stephen Baamba Albert


Aug 27 2015

Film Fest first for Broome

Mud-and-Saltwater-promo-FB 2A first for the coastal town of Broome in this year’s popular Shinju Matsuri Festival of the Pearl, is the Roebuck Bay Working Groups’ short film festival to be held on the 3rd of September. The Mangrove Hotel, with its sea eagle view of Roebuck Bay is the picturesque location for the FREE Roebuck Bay MUD AND SALTwater SHORT FILM FEST.

Roebuck Bay Working Group Project Manager, Kandy Curran, said the films that have been received for the festival are of a high standard and exceptionally diverse. These include films with mock interviews with Roebuck Bay’s marine life, Yawuru Rangers showing how they look after Yawuru country, stories of the bay’s multicultural history, whacky footage of mud dwellers, underwater footage of dolphins and out of water experiences with humpback whales, cyclone surfing, a cultural story told through the eyes of a young girl and the dilemma of whether to fish with a best friend or go to the movies with a dream girl.

The ROEBUCK BAY MUD AND SALTwater SHORT FILM FEST is an initiative of the Roebuck Bay Working Group and is funded by Inspiring Australia and Rangelands NRM.


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