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Spatial variation in Grevillea flower colour: Novel uses of ALA data and web services

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

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

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

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

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

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…

ACT Centenary Bioblitz

18th September 2013

Join us for Canberra's first ever collaborative race to identify as many kinds of plants, animals, algae and fungi at Black Mountain between Friday mo…

Science Symposium presentations now available

5th August 2013

The presentations for the science symposium are now available here: https://speakerdeck.com/atlaslivingaust

Pacific Science Intercongress: Connecting biodiversity collections in the Pacific

5th August 2013

Digitisation through DNA Barcoding and Informatics The presentations from the Pacific Science Intercongress session on DNA Barcoding and Inform…