The Challenge
Our planet is facing massive biodiversity loss due to overexploitation of species, invasive species, pollution, climate change and the degradation, fragmentation and destruction of habitats.
Decision makers concerned with biodiversity need powerful computing and analytical capabilities to help navigate this challenge and develop solutions.
The Response
Through re-engineer existing ecoinformatics solutions, such as those available through the BCCVL application, the EcoCommons platform has been created to provide enhanced computing and analytical capabilities for earth and environmental researchers. It will be a common place for multiple disciplines across the environmental science domains, such as:
- biodiversity
- biosecurity
- hydrology
- agriculture.
EcoCommons contains highly sought-after data, community-driven methods and computational resources, while enabling better collaborations beyond discipline, institutional and jurisdictional boundaries.
The platform will be a springboard for collaboration between researchers and decision makers concerned with biodiversity including ecosystem services, biosecurity, natural resource management and climate-related impacts and responses.
Its service-based framework enables the deploying, orchestrating and re-using of science-centric services such as species distribution models and climate change projections.
EcoCommons will work with researchers to implement transformational scientific analytical workflows using those services.
EcoCommons is building a research platform to bring all the fantastic data that already exists into one place, connect it with published methods, tools and analytical workflows, and back this all up with high-performance computation and cloud storage. And by doing this in one connected platform, running scientific workflows becomes much more rapid, transparent, reproducible and streamlined.
Dr Elisa Bayraktarov, former program manager, EcoCommons
The Outcomes
Access EcoCommons, where you’ll find existing ecoinformatics solutions re-engineered for broader reuse and adoption alongside workflows for new communities, such as environmental science, biosecurity, agriculture and hydrology. Features include:
Who Will Benefit
EcoCommons will provide an enhanced computing and analytical capability for earth and environmental researchers. It will also benefit research organisations, students, infrastructure providers and state and federal governments.
The Partners
- Griffith University
- QCIF
- Atlas of Living Australia
- TERN
- CSIRO Land and Water
- Macquarie University
- University of New South Wales
- University of Melbourne Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis
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