ALA Blog – Page 13 – Atlas of Living Australia

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Bushfire recovery projects: Increasing our understanding of how nature responds to fire

3rd November 2021

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) are working together on three new innovative c…

Echidna CSI: Using citizen science to track echidnas throughout Australia

1st November 2021

Echidna CSI is a research project run by the University of Adelaide using data collected by citizen scientists to study echidnas. The project has had …

ALA Advisory Board update

27th September 2021

Our Advisory Board is undergoing a reshuffle. We farewell and thank our Chair Dr Diana Day and welcome the new Chair, Dr Ian Cresswell, and a new memb…

ALA webinar: Saving species at speed – Conservation and the science of animal movement

22nd September 2021

Australian animals show an enormous diversity of movement behaviour, due to a long evolutionary history of adaptation to highly variable – and occas…

Global partnership paves way for ALA system upgrade

25th August 2021

In June this year we upgraded our ALA systems to make them more reliable, more robust, and equipped to manage increasing amounts of biodiversity data.…

National Science Week 13-21 August 2021

16th August 2021

There are so many great events happening this week, and many of them are online so everyone can get their science on!

galah takes flight: ALA’s new R package now available

We have just released galah, our new software package for accessing ALA data. This makes it easier than ever to find, download and analyse information…

Creating a buzz for citizen science

by Erin Roger, ALA Citizen Science Programme Lead