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Site Page: National Science Week 2020 – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 14th August 2020 It’s National Science Week – time to engage your curious mind and explore the world around you. Check out these National Science Week events being run by our partners and collaborators across the country. There are many opportunities to explore science, attend online events and make real contributions to Australian science...

Site Page: Data in the ALA: bushfire affected areas (2019-2020 bushfire season) – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 30th September 2020 The national dataset of bushfire affected areas for the 2019-20 bushfire season is accessible in the Atlas of Living Australia. Image by Teresa Bealey (CC-BY-NC-4.0) submitted to the University of New South Wales’ Environment Recovery Project: Australian Bushfires 2019-2020 on iNaturalist Australia. This dataset shows all areas of Australia affected by the 2019-2020 bushfires...

Site Page: ALA-cited publications – Atlas of Living Australia

Have you used the ALA in your published (or soon-to-be published) research? Please let us know about it via this form. We’re interested in all types of research that the ALA supports including research publications in scientific journals, reports, book chapters, theses, as well as websites and apps. Online bibliography This bibliography provides a list of known publications that have utilised data in the ALA or ALA infrastructure to support their research...

Site Page: Celebrating 10 years of science impact – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 16th November 2020 In 2020, we’re celebrating 10 years of the Atlas of Living Australia and today we launch a new feature to showcase ALA research impact. Browse through our ALA-cited publications web page and see the many and varied ways researchers use big data for biodiversity. The ALA brings together occurrence record data, taxonomic information, spatial and historical information on species distributions, and environmental data...

Site Page: Federal Budget announcement 2020 – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 23rd November 2020 As an outcome from the recent Federal Budget, the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) had positive news with $96 million secured for the 2022-23 financial year for current projects. $61 million was also provided for four new national research capabilities including Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) and Indigenous eResearch data tools and platforms...

Site Page: Guest editorial: ALA newsletter November 2020 – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 23rd November 2020 It’s a pleasure to be invited to provide this guest editorial to help celebrate the Atlas of Living Australia’s 10th anniversary. The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) was developed in 2010 to support the needs of the national and international research community for timely access to Australian biodiversity data...

Site Page: New improvements to ALA data quality filters – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 23rd November 2020 The ALA Data Quality project has released its first product for beta testing. Since the project launch in February this year the Data Quality project team has been working with the ALA user community to identify data quality related issues and develop solutions. Thank you to everyone who completed our surveys, contributed to our understanding of the baseline perceptions of data quality, helped to prioritise the issues, and tested solutions...

Site Page: ALA Newsletter November 2020 – Atlas of Living Australia

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Site Page: Bubble bum: Rare bee wee caught on camera – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 10th December 2020 Amateur naturalist Liz Barratt caught this candid photo of a European Honey Bee on her property in Moffatdale, Queensland. European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) caught on camera by Liz Barratt (All rights reserved © lizbarratt). “This was the first year I’d seen our bottlebrush in full bloom and it had a lot of bees around it so I got my camera out. I sat there for several hours over several days just happily snapping away and watching them,” Liz said...

Site Page: Data partners – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 17th December 2020 As part of our celebrations to mark 10 years of the ALA, we would like to thank all our data partners for all their contributions over the decade. Our data partners are the backbone of the ALA, providing species occurrence data as well as authoritative data for species names and classification, geospatial references, and environmental layers...