Holiday Greetings from the Atlas of Living Australia Posted on 20th December 2013 With another busy year drawing to a close, I would like to extend the very best wishes for the holiday season and a happy and prosperous New Year on b…
A 20+ year plan for Australian ecosystem science Posted on 19th December 2013 Get involved to help develop Australia's ecosystem science plan. It will hopefully guide ecological education, research and land management.
Volunteers capture 50,000! Posted on 26th November 2013 The amazing volunteers who contribute to the Atlas of Living Australia’s Biodiversity Volunteer Portal reached a number of significant milestones in…
Spatial variation in Grevillea flower colour: Novel uses of ALA data and web services Posted on 8th November 2013 Ben Raymond, scienceuntangled.com and R.O. (Bob) Makinson, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust Scientific analyses are usually driven by a resea…
A specialist’s audit of aggregated occurrence records: An ‘aggregator’s’ perspective Posted on 23rd October 2013 ‘Data quality’ has been a hot topic in the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) for many years. In just about all the presentations I have ever…
Spatial Portal Update Posted on 19th October 2013 Due to demand – I have produced a detailed user manual for the Atlas of Living Australia’s Spatial Portal (SP). This is intended to be a s…
Data processing Posted on 9th October 2013 We are regularly asked about how we process and manage data. This blog provides a reasonably technical overview of: some of the processes occurrence…
The time has come: a continent-wide system for monitoring for our biodiversity Posted on 20th September 2013 A collaboration of BoM, CSIRO and the Atlas of Living Australia have looked into how such a system might work and released their findings in a new rep…
Forty million critters and counting Posted on 18th September 2013 By Andrea Wild Spotted a strange sponge? Photographed a fungus? Recorded the chirping of a bird in your garden? Become a citizen scientist by uploadin…