Mr Luke Edwards1, Mr Chris Gentle2
1Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Perth, Australia, 2Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute / Western Australian Marine Science Institution, Perth, Australia
A major review of national environmental legislation, the Report of the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) has proposed a vision of improved environmental outcomes, combined with transparency around faster and lower-cost decisions.
In response, SAFE has been developed to accelerate the move to devolved robust, repeatable and transparent decision making for environmental assessments. Leveraging successful initiatives in data sharing and curation, and existing services and capabilities across corporate, government and science sectors through a shared framework could deliver more efficient, complete, robust, transparent and assured environmental accounting, risk assessment and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting for regulators, private industry, traditional owners and the wider public.
Implementation and first case-study (prototype) is now occurring via the Westport / Cockburn Sound Science Program (https://westport.wa.gov.au/media/f14pbnww/westport-marine-science-program.pdf). It is a collaborative project aiming to leverage and make use of Federal and State Government investments, including research infrastructure, to work with universities and private industry to produce an integrated ecosystem modelling framework for Cockburn Sound.
This presentation will show initial results of this collaboration and outline plans going forward.
Biography:
Luke works at Pawsey where amongst many things is the Facilities Manager for the ASDAF (Australian Space Data Analysis Facility – http://asdaf.space/). They enable Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and researchers to accelerate innovation in their products and services. He also works part-time as Data Manager for the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI).
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