Atlas of Living Australia

In our third year of the ALA Australian Biodiversity Data Mobilisation Program, we're thrilled to announce our successful Biosecurity projects! 🥳 Congratulations to: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE Tas) Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - WA Herbarium Department of Primary Industries and Regions (SARDI)! Read the blog to learn more! 🔗http://spr.ly/6048ibyMM 🌱 The successful projects from the general stream will be announced shortly. #GrantFunding #Biosecurity #Biodiversity #Data

🕷️ This week >50k new records were uploaded to the ALA including more than 35k records from iNaturalist! 💚 Check out the new records here: 🔗 http://spr.ly/6040iwCbs #NewRecords #Data #Biodiversity #Ecology #Biology #CitizenScience

⭐ We've just announced our next ALA Webinar! ✍️ Mark your diaries for 4th September 11AM-12PM AEST! Our next webinar - Exploring next-gen biodiversity detection technologies - brings together experts in camera trapping, 📸 eDNA 🧬 and ecoacoustics 🎵 from The University of Queensland, Macquarie University and QUT (Queensland University of Technology)! Register here: 🔗 http://spr.ly/6046iMOgQ Note the webinar will be recorded, with the recording made available through ALA social and blog channels in the week after the event. #Webinar #FreeEvent #RegisterToday #Biodiversity #Ecology #Technology CSIRO

⭐ We've got a huge line-up of #conferences and #events that we're attending for the rest of 2024! Check out our latest blog to see the ALA's event line-up! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gr6k2ZEN

📢 PSA iNaturalist will be down for maintenance between 2pm - 4pm AEST on Thursday 11 July! During this period, you will not be able to post observations from the mobile apps or interact with the website or API in any way, however the iNat Forum will still be active! ⭐ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dviGHqd

🐸 Hop on over and check out the refreshed #FrogID dataset on the ALA! The toad-ally amazing dataset incorporates changes and corrections to the first four years of the FrogID project, along with the inclusion of the fifth year’s data.🔎 In total, this updated version comprises more than 771k expert-verified #CitizenScience frog records which feed into GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility! 🤩 🔗 http://spr.ly/60419mzIt Australian Museum CSIRO Australian Citizen Science Association #Data #Ecology #Biodiversity #UnFrogettableData

❤️ This week >349k new records have been loaded into the ALA including 13.6k new records from Botanic Gardens of Sydney!🌱️ Check out the new records here: 🔗 http://spr.ly/60479l97F #Biodiversity #NewRecord #Species #Ecology #Data

📢 Summoning all sea slug searchers! 🌊 Got some free time over the weekend? Why not take part in the winter sea slug census! 🔎 Hosted by Victorian National Parks Association the #SeaSlugCensus is an important #CitizenScience initiative that helps to better understand these marvellous molluscs. 💙💛 Upload your records through iNaturalist! Learn more: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eUnSHW55 #Biodiversity #Ecology #Data Australian Citizen Science Association

Cuckoos are 🥚 egg-cellent imposters, 🕵️ fooling other 🐦 birds to raise their eggs & chicks. Using data from the ALA, research in Science Magazine shows selection for better chick imposters drives speciation in cuckoos that lay in a range of host species’ nests. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gHpBaCPA CSIRO The Australian National University #Science #Cuckoo #ResearchImpact #Biodiversity #Data #Ecology

🦋 In the last week we've uploaded >113k new records to the ALA including more than 32k records from Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG)! Check out the new species occurrence records here: 🔗 http://spr.ly/60419DZOh