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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...

Biodiversity Science project: NASA JPL's Infographics

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) needs you to take complex scientific data and images and turn them into informative graphics to convey a simple and easy to understand messages! The JPL’s newest venture is called JPL Infographics, and they need your help to create and post your very own creations of scientific graphic art...

Biodiversity Science project: Petridish

Petridish allows citizens to support science by directly funding independent and small -scale research projects. While this is a somewhat non-traditional citizen science project, funding is an important part of science, and Petridish allows science lovers everywhere to truly make a difference and support innovative science. Similar to other crowd funding style websites, Petridish lets you browse projects and donate online to the research projects of your choice...

Biodiversity Science project: Project Soothe

Project Soothe is a Citizen Science study based at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2015, our team of Clinical Psychologists have received over 600 photographs submitted by members of the public from 23 countries. During this phase of our research, we are inviting anyone aged 12 years or over to help us evaluate these images for their soothability. We have created a selection of evaluation surveys, each with a unique set of 25 images, for our Citizen Scientists to rate...

Biodiversity Science project: Off the Roof - Miami

Increasing demands on diminishing water supplies and the movement for urban areas to use more local water supplies has intensified interest in alternative water sources (e.g., roof runoff). However, lack of data on potential human health risks of these alternative water sources and treatment required to meet water quality standards has impeded use of these sources for both potable and non-potable applications...

Site Page: Contact Us – Atlas of Living Australia

Need help? Our most read help articles: How do I identify a species? How to cite the ALA How to submit a dataset Browse all help articles for user guides, FAQs and case studies. Our recent news and events: View ALA webinars Read our latest blog articles Contact the team: For technical support and general enquiries, please contact support@ala.org.au For media and engagement enquiries, please contact communications@ala.org...

Site Page: ALA upgrade – Atlas of Living Australia

Posted on 24th June 2021 Between Thursday 24 June and Tuesday 29 June, we will be deploying an upgrade to improve our systems and make them more robust and more efficient. As a result of this upgrade, there will be a planned outage on Tuesday 29 June from 8:00am to 2:00pm. Most of the work is happening behind the scenes, so hopefully you won’t notice any significant changes to your everyday use of the ALA. If you do see anything out of the ordinary please let us know on support@ala.org.au...

Site Page: ALA for researchers – Atlas of Living Australia

Designed to streamline your research, the ALA enables data access, storage, analysis and visualisation. The ALA brings dispersed biodiversity data to your desktop and provides powerful mapping and analysis tools, so you can refine and interrogate data and make it fit for your use. Explore & contribute Search and download records Search occurrence records in the ALA by species, taxon, dataset, date, location, data provider and more...

Biodiversity Science project: Price personalization tool

The Price Comparison Tool by Volunteer Science enables you to see how corporations may be changing the prices you see based on factors like your browser cookies and user agent. Pages you visit on Google Flights, Amazon, Priceline.com, and The Home Depot (with more sites coming soon!) will be loaded on a remote server, and the server's prices will be loaded seamlessly into your page so that you can compare them...

Site Page: Education Resources – Atlas of Living Australia

Classroom Activities Classroom activities are available for all ages from Foundation through Year 12 and they can be easily amended to suit your needs and your local area. User Guides There are also step-by-step User Guides for using the ALA. These guides not only take you through the process of carrying out some of the functions of the ALA, but also link from the classroom activities so they can be easily adjusted to suit your local area...