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Site Page: Elevating ALA’s Data Security with OpenID Connect – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 23rd October 2023 As Australia’s national biodiversity data infrastructure, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is committed to providing reliable and secure data access to our users. In line with this commitment, we are excited to announce our transition to OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, which will help to streamline the process for accessing data within the ALA across multiple platforms...
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Site Page: Director’s Update – October 2023 – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 24th October 2023 Welcome to the October 2023 edition of our ALA newsletter. It’s been an exciting month for the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), CSIRO and our national partners as we welcomed the world’s biodiversity data community to Hobart and Canberra for a series of conferences, meetings and symposia. Our journey began by hosting this year’s annual meeting of the biodiversity data standards group TDWG in Hobart from October 9th to 13th...
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Site Page: Australian Virtual Seed Bank – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 6th November 2023 In 2023, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and the Australian Seed Bank Partnership (ASBP) collaborated to launch a new version of the Australian Seed Bank Online, the Australian Virtual Seed Bank (AVSB). The AVSB shares sustainable seed collecting and banking practices and provides open-access information about both seed collections and the germination protocols used across seed banks in Australia...
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Site Page: ALA’s International Biodiversity Engagements – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 14th November 2023 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and CSIRO’s National Research Collections Australia were proud to host both the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Annual Conference in Hobart and the 30th Annual Governing Board Meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) in Canberra in October 2023...
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Site Page: ALA Newsletter October 2023 – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 26th October 2023 Check out the ALA’s October 2023 Newsletter. Check out the ALA’s October 2023 Newsletter. Tags: Newsletter Back to Articles
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Site Page: Combating myrtle rust with citizen science – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 29th February 2024 Tackling invasive species with data Exotic species are reaching Australian shores at unprecedented rates, due to increased human movement and trade. Each introduction of an invasive species poses a potential threat to Australia’s unique biodiversity and ecological communities. Invasive species monitoring is therefore essential to understanding their spread, range and abundance in Australia...
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Site Page: Call for applications – GBIF 2024 Graduate Researchers Award – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 13th February 2024 Nominations are open for the GBIF 2024 Graduate Researchers Award! This award is an annual program aimed at fostering and recognising innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics at the Masters and PhD student level. The 2024 programme will provide two €5,000 prizes (approx. AUD $8,200) recognising the work of two early-career researchers...
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Site Page: International Day of Women and Girls in Science – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 9th February 2024 February 11th 2024 is the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), whilst acknowledging the persistent gaps in representation and equality in these fields...
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Site Page: What’s in a Name? Refreshing the ALA taxonomy – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 12th March 2024 Changing the taxonomic backbone of the Atlas of Living Australia What’s the difference between(Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli) and (Tyto novaehollandiae castanops)? Although these two birds are similar, they are different sub-species of Masked Owls that are found on completely opposite ends of Australia, and as such have different taxonomic names! Northern Australian Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae ssp...
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Site Page: ALA Webinar: Transforming Australia’s biological collections to open data – Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on 21st February 2024 View the recording from the ALA's first webinar of 2024. The Atlas of Living Australia’s (ALA) first webinar of 2024 showcased a selection of amazing projects from the Australian Biodiversity Data Mobilisation Program. This important initiative supports the mobilisation of Australia’s biodiversity data which may not yet be digital, making it available through the ALA, and internationally to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility...