Month: September 2020

Ann Backhaus1, Dr Marco De La Pierre1, Dr Alexis Espinosa1, Dr Mehaboob Basha1, Dr Sarah Beecroft1, Cristian  Di Pietrantonio1, Dr Pascal Elahi1, Audrey Scott1, Ali Zamani1, Dr Christina Hall2 1Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Kensington, Australia 2Australian BioCommons, Melbourne, Australia “…[T]hey [digital-learning...

Dr Natalia Atkins1, Mr  Craig Jones1, Mr Sebastien Mancini1, Mr Cameron Moloney1, Dr Sachit Rajbhandari2 1Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) 2Geoscience Australia The Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) is an interoperable online network of marine and climate data resources. AODN...

Mrs Jane Frazier1, Ms Ai-Lin Soo1 1Monash eResearch Centre, Melbourne, Australia The transition to an increasingly remote workplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to rapidly mitigate three key risks in the Monash eResearch Centre (MeRC) to ensure...

Mr Vincent Fazio1 1C.S.I.R.O., Clayton, Australia Australia’s National Virtual Core Library (NVCL) is an online library containing mineralogy data and imagery from than one million metres of drill core rock samples from all around Australia. Up until now this data...

Ms Maria Connor1, Ms Sharron Stapleton2, Ms Michelle DuBroy1, Ms Maria Weaver1 1Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia 2Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Pre-COVID-19, Griffith University Library research staff faced multiple challenges delivering training to researchers. With five separate campuses across South...

Prof. Stuart Barr1 1University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Extreme rainfall events pose an ever increasing threat to cities due to the potential for surface water flooding resulting in damage to properties and major disruption of transport systems. Modern sensor networks...

A/Prof. David Eyers1 1University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Open source software container solutions, such as Docker, Singularity and Kubernetes, can greatly assist in the creation of reproducible research workflows. Briefly, Docker is a popular general-purpose container ecosystem, but requires...

Dr Clare Bradley1,2, Ms Helen Dockrell3, Professor James Ward4 1South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia 2Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia 3Notitia, Adelaide, Australia 4University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia Introduction Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) routinely collect...

Ms Irina Bastrakova1, Mr Joel Haasdyk2, Mr Byron Cochrane3 1Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia 2Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service, Australia 3OpenWork Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand The reliance on positioning technology in areas like digital twins, in-vehicle navigation, automated mining operations...

Dr Stefanie Kethers1, Dr Sara King2, Dr Frankie Stevens2, Dr Lesley Wyborn3 1ARDC 2AARNet 3ANU A variety of reasons have led to a massive increase in virtual meetings over physical ones. While the COVID-19 situation may, at some point, again...