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Greater Impact through Environmental Infrastructure Symposium – registration open

19th April 2017

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of NCRIS, the ALA is partnering with a number of NCRIS facilities to host a symposium to celebrate the collaborativ…

A global approach to monitoring biodiversity

11th April 2017

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), is a member an EU-funded project, called GLOBal Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity research (GLOBIS-B). …

User exploring ALA's powerful mapping tools.

National biodiversity data at your fingertips

By Hannah Scott and Peter Brenton, Atlas of Living Australia Sustainable land and natural resource management relies on many things, but at the cor…

Setting the benchmark for a streamlined approach to environmental data management

16th March 2017

The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) have teamed up to produce an integrated data feed to enable r…

Meet Emily. Vacation student and solar car racer.

While some students were relaxing over the summer holidays, there’s a few that traded in their beach towel to be part of CSIRO’s Vacation Schol…

Open infrastructure has global benefits

27th February 2017

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a comprehensive biodiversity data management system for Australia and is also the Australian node for the Globa…

Our top tips on species identification

8th February 2017

Have you ever spotted a plant or animal and been unsure of what it is? If the answer is yes, then you’re not alone. In fact, one of the most com…

Teachers from the STEM X Academy use the ALA to identify what they caught in their traps

Promoting STEM in the classroom

1st February 2017

Earlier this month, 70 teachers with a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) came together to participate in the STEM X Academ…

Save the date

20th December 2016

Greater impact through environmental infrastructure symposium In May 2017, National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) faciliti…