December 2010 – Atlas activities, articles and reports, media releases, conferences and workshops, biodiversity weblinks

From the Director

  • Donald Hobern reports on recent progress. (article no longer available)

Partners/Stakeholder update

  • Alastair Graham, Fish Collection Manager reports on the Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC).
    Find out what the ANFC is and their progress on the Photographic Index of Australian Fishes

Super Science Activities

Biodiversity News

  • Joanne Daly, Group Executive for the CSIRO Agribusiness Group, is the new Chair of the Governing Board of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
    Here she talks about her new role ».
  • You can read the December 2009 issue of the GBIF newsletter, Gbits (PDF 42KB)

Biosecurity News

  • Joanne Banyer, CEO of the Australian Biosecurity Intelligence Network (ABIN), has announced that ABIN is now online.