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  1. Site Page: So many fish, one great map – The Atlas launches FishMap – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 27th February 2013 By Andrea Wild From ugly ducklings like the Rough Dreamer to the kiss-me-I’m-really-a-prince Clown Triggerfish, Australia’s marine fishes are now at your fingertips thanks to FishMap, officially launched on Tuesday 26 February, 2013, by the Atlas of Living Australia ...

  2. Site Page: TERN article: Soils to Satellites now live! – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 5th July 2013 Thanks to TERN for letting us repost this article – With the launch of the Soils to Satellites (S2S) online tool, TERN’s Eco-informatics facility gives people a way to explore and visualise relationships between types of ecosystem data that weren’t possible until now...

  3. Site Page: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) – Atlas of Living Australia

    The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) comprises two gardens. Melbourne Gardens was established in 1846 and covers more than 38 hectares. Today, the Melbourne Gardens is home to more than 52,000 individual plants, representing over 10,000 different species, in 26 Collections. It has also become a natural sanctuary for native wild life. One of the most recent developments is The Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden (Children’s Garden)...

  4. Site Page: The Atlas welcomes two new university herbarium data providers – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 24th March 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) welcomes two new university herbaria collections: the Janet Cosh Herbarium (WOLL, based at the University of Wollongong), and the La Trobe University Herbarium (LTB). University herbaria are important teaching collections, with specialised holdings that often reflect the diversity of the region in which the university is situated, as well as the professional expertise of the teaching staff...

  5. Site Page: Making Tracks to the Atlas: From OzTrack to ZoaTrack – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 21st September 2015 From big Crocodiles in Cape York to Little Penguins in and around St Kilda, the biodiversity projects that incorporate tracking devices are providing highly valuable data on the whereabouts of wildlife on-the-move. ZoaTrack researcher Hamish Campbell sends a turtle back to the wild with a tracking device attached to the shell...

  6. Site Page: ALA welcomes Dr Diana Day, new Chair of the ALA Advisory Board – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 21st October 2019 We are pleased to announce that the ALA has recently appointed Dr Diana Day to Chair the ALA Advisory Board. Diana brings a wealth of board, corporate governance and research sector experience to the role. Her board leadership has included commercial water utilities, statutory authorities, agri-business, commercialisation companies, tertiary education institutions and not-for-profits...

  7. Site Page: ALA Data Quality Project launched – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 20th February 2020 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has launched a Data Quality Project to develop products that improve access to data, and ability to assess fitness-for–use.  The ALA recognises the importance of ensuring high quality, well annotated and described data for its community and is investing in the Data Quality Project over the 2020 calendar year to respond to feedback from stakeholder and user groups...

  8. Site Page: Media release – Citizen science to aid bushfire recovery – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 20th April 2020 This article first appeared on CSIRO on April 20th 2020. People-powered science will play a role in Australia’s bushfire recovery, with more than 20 projects underway involving citizen scientists of all ages. CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is working with key agencies and community groups to support research underway throughout bushfire impacted areas...

  9. Site Page: DNA key to identifying eggs in museum collections – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 15th January 2021 A new study shows how the scientific value of collections can be improved by DNA technologies that provide high-confidence taxonomic identifications of specimens. There are 24,000 clutches of bird eggs from more than 1,000 species in the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC). Here are the eggs used in this study. Image credit: ANWC, CSIRO...

  10. Site Page: ALA webinar: Exploring citizen science in the context of disaster response and recovery – Atlas of Living Australia

    Posted on 4th March 2021 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) provides access to Australia’s largest collection of biodiversity information via the provision of open infrastructure and tools. Many of the tools available help support citizen science activities, including resources to support communities to respond to disaster events. For our first webinar series for 2021, join us for three talks from leading scientists enabling citizen science in the disaster response and recovery area...