World Parks Congress BioBlitz in Sydney’s Olympic Park Posted on 30th April 2015 In November 2014 (during the World Parks Congress Public Festival ‘Planetfest‘) over 500 children, scientists, naturalists, and World Park…
Bringing south-east Arnhem Land stories to south-east Australia mob Posted on 29th April 2015 ** This post has been written and produced by the Yugul Mangi Rangers of south-east Arnhem Land, with Emilie Ens and Mitchell Scott (Macquarie Univers…
New to the Atlas: PhyloLink Phylogenetic tool released Posted on 22nd April 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has released PhyloLink – a new tool for visualising phylogenetic trees and exploring data from phylogenetic pers…
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge: The Olkola People Posted on 17th April 2015 The Olkola People, CSIRO researchers from Cairns and Townsville, and the Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre (TIEC) are working together to look a…
Citizen Science and Biosecurity: bee alert and bee alarmed Posted on 8th April 2015 Australian Citizen Scientists are busy (like bees!) documenting the spread of an exotic and invasive South African carder bee, Afranthidium Immanthidi…
The Atlas welcomes two new university herbarium data providers Posted on 24th March 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) welcomes two new university herbaria collections: the Janet Cosh Herbarium (WOLL, based at the University of Woll…
COMING SOON: New Phylogenetic ‘Tree of Life’ Tools Posted on 26th February 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), in collaboration with the creators of PhyloJIVE, will soon be introducing new tools to explore species data and r…
ALA welcomes new data from Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Posted on 17th February 2015 The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) has more than quadrupled their specimen data that is freely available online through the …
Fungimap: putting Australian fungi on the map Posted on 29th January 2015 Fungimap is one of the largest citizen science groups in Australia and – with over 100,000 fungi records available online– is the biggest single c…
