Echoes CHM

ECHM 2025 Photo Competition Winners!🎉🎉

A huge thank you to all of the ECHM staff who participated and voted in the 2025 photo competition. It was a tight race this year, with dozens of amazing entries.

Congratulations to our photo competition winners:

- Artefact Features: ‘That’s a Knife’ – Ben Pentz

- People’s Choice: ’80 Mile Beach’ – Evonne Baltrock-Nitzsche

- Creative: ‘Mystic Blue Gorge’ – JJ McDermott

- Flora/Fauna: ‘Thin Lizzy’ – Callan Melvill-Smith

- Landscape: ‘smiling Sky’ – John Marrell

- On the Job: ‘Excavation Debrief’ – Niamh Quinn

An amazing kick start to 2026 with the ECHM Summer Seminars!

Last week was a busy one at the Echoes office, with internal seminars, workshops and training.

We wrapped up the week with some fantastic presentations highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and a huge thank you to our guest presenters Peter Veth, Jo Thomson, Myles Mitchell, Dirima Cuthbert and Sven Ouzman.

We'd also like to thank the members of the Echoes team involved in bringing the whole week together and the Cockburn Health & Community Facility for hosting the event!

It was great to see many familiar faces from across the industry and we look forward to doing it again next year!

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Members of the ECHM team were delighted to be in attendance at the inaugural Western Australia Archaeology and Heritage Assembly (WAAHA), hosted at the WA Maritime Museum last week.

ECHM's director and AACAI president Ian Ryan hosted a discussion panel with representatives from across the heritage industry that inspired passionate discussions and honest conversations about the current state of the industry and future directions for us to look towards.

With such a wide range of discussions from heritage practitioners across the state, fascinating projects and future research, we look forward to attending future WAAHA events!

📸Photo's taken by - WAAHA & AACAI

Echoes CHM 2025 End of Year Wrap up!

As we wind down for the holidays, we would like to thank everyone for their hard work in making 2025 another successful year.

Wishing everyone a happy, safe and festive holiday season and we're looking forward to what's looking like another busy field season in 2026!

(Echoes CHM office will be closed from the 19th of December until the 5th of January)

Members of the Echoes CHM team were delighted to attend the Australian Archaeological Association and Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology joint conference in Walyalup last week, of which ECHM was a proud sponsor!

During the week the ECHM team spoke to students at the Meet the Graduates and Colleagues event and JJ McDermott and Niamh Quinn presented a paper entitled ‘Time to more readily preserve and celebrate cultural heritage: Establishing a Cultural Precinct on Nyamal Country.’

A special thanks to Nyamal Aboriginal Corporation and Barlbinbinya Aboriginal Corporation for their continued support and collaboration and we look forward to seeing you all again next year!

This week Ian Ryan from ECHM will be presenting at UWA's Archaeology Seminar Series!

This week we welcome Ian Ryan from Echoes Cultural Heritage Management to the Archaeology Seminar Series.

Ian will be speaking to his 25 years of experience in archaeological heritage management here in Western Australia.

See you all here at 3pm on Thursday!

UWA Research

Echoes has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Archaeologist / Cultural Heritage Professional to join our team in Perth.

Heritage Consultant - Senior Archaeologist Job in Cockburn Central, Perth WA - SEEK ECHM is a medium-sized heritage consultancy that operates throughout Western Australia. Established in 2000, and formerly known as Gavin Jackson CRM.

A massive thank you to all involved in organising the Annual Trivia Night hosted by Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. (AACAI's) WA chapter, at the Fremantle Bowling Club last week!

Congratulations to all the winners! It was a tough competition this year with over 80 people taking part, our ECHM team 'Trowel and Error' coming in second place!🥈

It was great to see so many familiar faces and we're looking forward to seeing you all there next year!

The team at ECHM would like to share our support for Gavin and Jake who are taking part in the MACA Cancer 200, Ride for Perkins!

We invite everyone to get behind and show their support for these guys as they ride to raise funds for cancer research at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.

Check out there fundraising page here:
https://www.cancer200.org.au/fundraisers/gavinjackson

Happy National Archaeology Week!

This week, ECHM team member Vicky Winton will be presenting on her work that explores 'Needs versus Values: Possibilities for a psychosocial approach to Aboriginal cultural heritage management' at the Archaeology Seminar Series held at UWA.

Happy National Archaeology Week!
Please come along to what will be our last session of the Archaeology Seminar Series for Semester 1!
This Thursday (22 May), ECON373, UWA.

Vicky Winton will be exploring - with us as her captive hive-mind - the potential benefits of recording heritage relative to basic human needs rather than pre-determined cultural values.

After studying in the UK, Vicky first came to WA on a working holiday visa in 2005, making contact with Kate Morse, Jane Balme, Annie Carson, Viviene Brown, Ian Ryan, Kelly Fleming, Sam Bolton and Alistair Paterson at that time. She returned in 2008 to live and work permanently, first as a consultant with Eureka Archaeological Research and Consulting at UWA, then as an independent consultant. In 2017, Vicky moved to Busselton and worked as a consultant with Brad Goode 2019-2024. She is now on the report writing and quality control team at Echoes Cultural Heritage Management. Vicky has worked extensively with the Wajarri Yamaji Traditional Owners of Weld Range in the Murchison region, their heritage services provider company Ethical Engagement Consultancy, Viviene Brown and Annie Carson, including the 2013-2015 federally funded Weld Range Web of Knowledge project based at UWA. She maintains archaeological research interests alongside consultancy work.

UWA Research