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Pelican Expeditions · Est. 1998
Saltwater Projects·Project Register

An index of voyages.

Twenty-seven years of expeditions, collaborations, films, soundworks and curricula — organised by water, year, and category.

§ 01 · Archive

Expeditions & programs, 1998—present.

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Project Years Sea Country Category Status
01If It Doesn't Kill You
5-part SBS documentary series with kids from Melbourne's streets, shot in Bass Strait.
1998—99Bass StraitDocumentaryArchived
02Pelican1 launch & commissioning
Build and commissioning of the 40ft gaff-rigged ketch at the heart of every voyage since.
1998—2001Port PhillipVesselOngoing
03Two Bays Water Quality Baseline
First citizen-science water-quality survey across Port Phillip and Western Port.
2006—07Nairm · Warn MarinResearchComplete
04School on the Water
Curriculum co-design with St Theresa's Albion and other Catholic primary schools.
2010—Port PhillipEducationOngoing
05IFAW Cetacean Survey
Pygmy blue and southern right whale acoustic monitoring, Backstairs Passage.
2013Kangaroo IslandResearchComplete
06Hope Vale Pelican
Long-term UNESCO-recognised collaboration with Guugu Yimithirr Traditional Owners.
2013—Cooktown, QLDSea CountryOngoing
07Acoustic Ecology Stream
Hydrophone deployments and bay-wide passive acoustic listening.
2013—Two BaysSoundOngoing
08IPMEN 2014 / Iwate
International Pacific Marine Educators conference — community, tsunami memory, Forest-River-Ocean.
2014Miyako, JapanConferenceComplete
09Microplastics Sampling
Added to the Two Bays program — the first continuous multi-year dataset across the Bays.
2016—21Two BaysResearchComplete
10VACCA / Youthworx Sea Country
Indigenous youth-led media and sea voyaging with Boonwurrung Foundation.
2018—NairmSea CountryOngoing
11Sound Works
Sound walk and Saltwater forum for the 2020 Festival of Sails.
2019—20Geelong · Port PhillipSoundComplete
12Chain of Ponds — Elster Creek
Urban rewilding on Elster Creek. Nine-hole golf course becoming healthy wetlands.
2021—Boon Wurrung · ElsternwickRewildingOngoing
13Reveil · Deep Listening
Hydrophone at Monash Bridge, Elster Creek Nature Reserve. Contribution to global listening network.
2022ElsternwickSoundComplete
14IPMEN 2023 · W̱SÁNEĆ
Co-hosted IPMEN at University of Victoria with Ocean Networks Canada.
2023Vancouver Is., BCConferenceComplete
15Takao Declaration · IPMEN Kaohsiung
20th anniversary IPMEN. Saltwater co-signed the Takao Declaration with Taiwanese and Pacific delegates.
2025Kaohsiung, TaiwanPolicyComplete