Mr Luke Edwards1,2, Mr Brendan Busch2,3, Mr Chris Gentle2,3
1Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Kensington, Australia, 2Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI), Crawley, Australia, 3Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI), Crawley, Australia
Biography:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-3361
Luke is a highly experienced IT professional with more than 15 years of experience across State Government, academia and research infrastructure institutions. A large part of this time has been spent helping marine researchers manage their data and working towards a sustainable data ecosystem.
Abstract:
The global community and the Australian Government have committed to Nature-Positive outcomes which involves halting environmental degradation, and nature being repaired and regenerated to previous levels. To enable this change we need to be able to account and report on environmental performance with increased assurance, transparency and accountability. An effective ‘supply chain’ of environmental information, data and tools that is repeatable and trusted for a range of stakeholders enables this to occur. The Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) highlighted this requirement and the development of a SEAF aims to assist in this goal.
A joint project is currently underway between State and Federal Government funded entities as well as the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and industry. It will accelerate shared infrastructure, governance and organisational linkages between research computing infrastructure, commercial computing infrastructure and industry. The focus will be on enabling environmental assessment in the Cockburn Sound and Pilbara regions but will also develop capacity to on-board new regional ‘spokes’. This approach will create real impact, translating science knowledge and data analytics into timely, practical management outputs whilst delivering significant economic, environmental and social benefits.
Details on the proposed SEAF can be found here – https://wabsi.org.au/our-work/projects/seaf/. This presentation will provide updates on this journey and discuss the next steps with the eResearch community.