In November 2010 Joy Williams was awarded an NT Research and Innovation Award for her role in establishing her outstation at Adjamarduku on Croker Island as a base for cross-cultural research and documentation teams working on areas including Indigenous ecological knowledge, oral history, the transcription and translation of archival texts in Amurdak and Garig, and the life and work of the 'Croker Island Painters'.

The work at the outstation has been characterised as 'knowledge exchange' reflecting a focus on a sharing of concepts and information between Indigenous people with a deep locally-grounded, experiential knowledge of a particular subject area, be it aspects of the marine environment or the complexities of social structures, and university-trained specialists with corresponding academically-based knowledge. During a seven-month field season beginning in late April 2010, Adjamarduku hosted:

• the Amurdak Language Recovery team, consisting of linguist Robert Mailhammer (ASU Arizona), who is working on a grammar and texts of the highly endangered Amurdak language from the escarpment country north of Oenpelli, along with two of the last people who can understand the language, Rae Giribug and Charlie Mangulda, both based on Croker Island

• the Nganyjaharr ‘cross-generational transfer of Indigenous ecological knowledge' team (funded by the Natural Resources Management Board of the NT via NAILSMA), consisting of older knowledgeable people such as Khaki Marrala, David Minyimak, and Charlie Mangulda working with younger traditional owners using Google Earth as a tool for identifying places of significance within the Nganyjaharr estate on Cobourg Peninsula

• the team of people working on an upcoming bilingual Iwaidja Inyman publication (working title: The Iwaidja Book of the Sea), including sea turtle specialist Scott Whiting from NRETAS' Marine Unit based at the Arafura Timor Research Facility, and Helen Larson, Curator of Fishes (Emeritus) Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Both Scott and Helen have been working with Iwaidja speakers on Croker and the adjacent mainland over the last three years, funded jointly by their departments/institutions along with Indigenous ecological knowledge projects funded by the Natural Resource Management Board of the Northern Territory and co-ordinated by Bruce Birch. In addition, Dr Larson, whose knowledge of local marine bird life rivals her professional knowledge of fish, worked intensively with Khaki Marrala on bird identification for an Iwaidja Inyman bilingual bird poster

• a cross-cultural team recording oral histories in Iwaidja and English with particular focus on the history of interactions between Indigenous people and western researchers (and other outsiders) in Northwestern Arnhem land, including historian Martin Thomas (ANU) funded by an ARC linkage grant focussing on aspects of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, along with a film crew from Hand In Hand Productions (Fitzroy). This visit was stimulated by work done at the Outstation in 2009 by Bruce Birch, Joy Williams, Charlie Mangulda, Archie Brown, David Minyimak, and Khaki Marrala on recollections and interpretations of the visit of mammologist and taxidermist David Johnson to Cape Don in 1948, and his subsequent solo trek to Oenpelli. This work resulted in the film ‘The American Clever Man', which was shown to an audience of hundreds in the great hall of the National Museum in Canberra as part of the symposium ‘Barks, Birds, and Billabongs' in November 2009, and a corresponding article to be published as part of the symposium proceedings (in press, ANU e-press)

• senior custodians of the Yanajanak song set from the Mt Borradaile area working with musicologist Linda Barwick (Uni Sydney) and Bruce Birch on an upcoming CD/book production. The work is jointly funded by the National Recording Project, the Hans Rausing Fund for Endangered Languages, and Iwaidja Inyman. This visit comes on the back of the attendance of the Yanajanak songmen along with two outstanding young male dancers, Ralston Lee and Marcus Fletcher, at the AIATSIS-funded Traditional Music And Dance Syposium held in July at the National Film and Sound Archive's ARC Cinema in July this year. The trip was funded jointly by AIATSIS, ArtsNT, and Iwaidja Inyman

• PhD student (RMIT Melbourne) Cris Edmonds-Wathen co-operating with Bruce Birch working with pairs of Iwaidja speakers on the documentation and analysis of Iwaidja spatial terminology using stimuli developed by the Language and Cognition Group at MPI (Nijmegen)

• PhD student (ANU) and Iwaidja Inyman team member/co-ordinator Sabine Hoeng, who is compiling a database of bark paintings by a group of artists who lived and worked on Croker Island in the 1960s and 70s in collaboration with artists' living family members and other associates

• PhD student Shane Penny (CDU Darwin), who is conducting a survey of giant clam populations with the collaboration of local ranger groups and knowledgeable elders including Iwaidj Inyman team members Khaki Marrala and Charlie Mangulda