Ooid Scientific

🎨✨ Bringing science to life—visually! Whether it’s for a grant proposal, journal article, public outreach, or live event, effective science communication makes your work more accessible, engaging, and impactful. 🧬 Services include: 📌 Grant & journal illustrations 📌 Education & engagement materials 📌 Animation & multimedia 📌 Live graphic recording 📢 Let’s turn your science into engaging visuals that tell a story. #SciComm #ScienceIllustration #ScienceCommunication #STEMArt #AcademicSupport #VisualScience #EngageWithScience #ooidscientific

We are an interdisciplinary team of #scientists with over 15 years of experience working with #academia, #industry and #NFPs. Our experts are committed to working together with our clients to deliver research services across a range of #environmental and #ecological areas. Get in touch to discuss your project needs today! #ooidscientific #researchconsultants #stats #writing #publications #projectmanagement #advice

After years of being a Perth-based business, Ooid Scientific has officially planted its roots in the Great Southern 🌿 We have relocated to Denmark, where we are now lucky to be surrounded by some of the most ecologically remarkable landscapes in the world: peatlands, ancient karri forests, estuaries, and a coastline that keeps reminding us why we got into environmental science in the first place. For our science communication clients: nothing changes. We work with researchers, institutions and industry nationally and internationally, and a change of postcode doesn't change that. If you're based in Townsville, Zurich or anywhere in between and need someone to turn your science into something that lands; we're still your people to chat science. And if you're working on environmental, marine, agricultural or NRM projects here in the Great Southern or anywhere in WA, we'd love to connect locally too. Now's a great time to say hello as we prepare for the next financial year. 📍 Denmark (Kinjarling), WA but working globally 🌐 ooidscientific.com #GreatSouthern #Denmark #WesternAustralia #ScienceCommunication #EnvironmentalConsulting #OoidScientific #NRM #ResearchCommunication #SciComm

Was great to work with @westernaustralianmarinescience on this on! Coral larval enhancement is a sensible approach: work with what reefs already do during spawning, optimise conditions, and release larvae back onto degraded areas. Not rebuilding from scratch, just improving the odds. Similar work has been done in the Great Barrier Reef, so it's good to see it getting under way in WA reefs which are facing the same threats and uncertain future. Well done to the WAMSI team and partners on getting the trial underway at Nyinggulu.

Ooid Scientific hit the constructed wetland at Nurdi Way last week for our latest seasonal survey: sampling, measuring, and digging up sediment. This ongoing work is helping us build a clearer picture of how well constructed wetlands remove nutrients and metals, and how they contribute to carbon cycling, which will help improve carbon accounting of these valuable green spaces.  Wetlands: underrated, overachieving, and occasionally not wet at all (in a Perth Summer).  This work is supported by City of Canning and Water Corporation

A summer of filming really small things in and out of the water in the Great Southern 🌿 #macro #hiddenworlds #ooidscientific #macronature

🪸 Visualising nearshore reef restoration 🪸 We loved designing the visuals to accompany this article exploring how turbid nearshore coral reefs can be restored. Most reef restoration is developed for clear-water, offshore systems. This work highlights why those approaches don’t always translate to nearshore reefs, and proposes an integrated, phased restoration framework including habitat modification and enhancement, coral delivery and maintenance, as well as catchment management and strong climate action. Read the full article here :/science/article/pii/S0301479725042744#:~:text=Our%20proposed%20staged%20and%20layered,restoration%20efforts%20are%20not%20wasted. #ScientificIllustration #ReefRestoration #NearshoreReefs #CoralReefs #MarineScience #ScienceCommunication #OoidScientific #ClimateAction #EcosystemServices

🌦️ How does changing the land change the rain? In Southwest Western Australia, shifts from native vegetation to agriculture have altered surface heat, moisture, and wind patterns — influencing how and where clouds form. This schematic, now published in WIRES Climate Change as part of “A Review of Drivers of Cool Season Rainfall in Southwest Western Australia”, by Hawke et al. illustrates how land use affects key atmospheric processes — from sensible (H) and latent (LE) heat fluxes to turbulence, cloud formation, and the transport of salt particles by dust devils. It was great to work with the authors from @murdochuniversity and @dpirdwa to visualise this complex system — showing how local land use changes can ripple through to influence regional rainfall. You can read more about it and other drivers of rainfall in the SWWA here: /doi/epdf/10.1002/wcc.70028 #ClimateScience #Rainfall #WesternAustralia #LandUseChange #Agroclimate #AtmosphericProcesses #OoidScientific #SWWA

Another paper out from our work on Black Soldier Flies and waste recycling! Here we found that Black Soldier Fly Larvae Frass (i.e. maggot poo) from manure and vegetable waste can boost plant growth and introduce/stimulate beneficial soil bacteria over a crop cycle - though fungi didn’t respond the same way. As always - more research is needed to understand this response, but for now, maggot poo = happy plants + happy bacteria! #BSFL #SoilHealth #SustainableFarming #CircularAg #Bacteriapower #ooidscientific Photos: 1) Field experiment at UWA Field Station 2) Happy clover growing in field experiment 3) Pre-pupae/pupae larve on frass 4) Pile of frass 5) False coloured SEM of bacteria on plant roots 6) Paper in JIFF Link to paper in Journal of Insects for Food and Feed: /view/journals/jiff/aop/article-10.1163-23524588-bja10318/article-10.1163-23524588-bja10318.xml

Busy writing grants again? ✍️ 👀 Grant assessors don’t have time for guesswork. Make your science unmissable with clear, professional illustrations because pictures > paragraphs. 😉 Here’s a peek at some past grant visuals. 📩 Get in touch today for a no-obligation quote. #grants #scicomm #illustration #graphicdesign #ARC #ooidscientific #ScienceFunding #research

Visualising water and nutrient flows isn’t easy! We teamed up with WAMSI to create illustrations of Exmouth Gulf’s habitats—from seagrass and mangroves to dugongs and humpback whales. These visuals make complex science easier to understand. Need help communicating your research? Get in touch! @westernaustralianmarinescience #ExmouthGulf #WAMSI #MarineScience #Visualisation #EnvironmentalResearch #scicomm #ooidscientific #graphicdesign #illustration #scienceillustration

For the past 2 years, we’ve worked alongside DWER to collect valuable water quality data from catchments along WA’s south coast. These efforts play a key role in supporting the management and protection of our waterways. If you’re seeking support for your own environmental monitoring projects, we’d be happy to chat - get in touch to see how we can help! #waterquality #environmentalmonitoring #healthyrivers #healthyestuarieswa #ooidscientific #dwer