cerdi research | agriculture, climate adaption and citizen science
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Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
CeRDI Research
Agriculture, Climate Adaption and Citizen Science
September 2016
Centre for eResearch and
Digital Innovation
CeRDI -
www.cerdi.edu.au~ 30 staff: multidisciplinary mix of researchers, technical, support and administration
Located within FedUni portfolio Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation
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CeRDI eResearch capability
National and FedUni research priorities
CeRDI Government, industry and community needs
Research expertise
Technological expertise
Real world applications
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CeRDI
Groundwater: Challenges and Strategies - 41st IAH International Congress, Marrakech, September 15-19, 2014
A variety of applications:groundwater , soils, agriculture, biodiversity, fire, history, sports, municipal, etc.
Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets
spatial.federation.edu.au
CeRDI capability: spatial data portals
CeRDI capability: example projects
www.vvg.org.au
Victorian Government innovation grant 2011 - 2013 Federates all Victorian groundwater data 5 bore databases, spatial layers, EPA data Predictions on the fly User selected 3D visualisations Allows data exports Decision support tool for practitioners Research-ready data sets
Online Farm Trials www.farmtrials.com.au
GRDC funded 2012 - 2017 All grains trials for Australia online Working with Grower Groups, government, industry Spatial filtering and selective keyword filtering Brings in climate data and soils data on-the-fly Allows data exports Decision support tool for agronomists and growers Research-ready data sets of all grain trials
Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth
Corangamite CMA funded 2012 - 2016 Online portal that combines eLibrary of grey literature with web-GIS Over 3500 documents and 170 layers in the system (legacy data capture) Allows crowd-sourced soil test data (e.g. farm soil tests) Strongly supported by government, industry and community Allows data exports, screen capture as pdf, saved workspace links Decision support tool for farmers, agronomists, catchment managers, Landcare Research-ready data sets of soil and related information
Farmer submitted soil tests: Tools for visualising and monitoring changes over time
Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base
Southern Farming Systems – Soil moisture probes
Current projectDepartment of Agriculture/CSIRO – Field Sense project
Source: CSIRO
South West Climate Changewww.swclimatechange.com.au
A collaboration between the Victoria’s Great South Cost Councils and the Glenelg-Hopkins and Corangamite CMAs funded 2015 - 2020 Provides regional information on the projected changes in climate and its likely impact on the region’s economic, social and environmental assets Offers a host of information and resources – including planning tools, maps and visualisations – to support better planning Identifies priority landscapes for carbon plantings and other carbon sequestration methods, as well as strategies to build landscape integrity
Climate Readywww.climateready.com.au
Climate Ready is a collaboration across Victoria’s Bayside City Council, Kingston City Council and Mornington Peninsula Shire areas. Designed to help will help residents, holiday home owners and businesses prepare for climate change Includes information about the effects climate change may have on property and lifestyle, especially changes in the frequency or severity of flood, fire, drought and heatwave. At the centre is the Climate Ready action plan is a step-wise tool to assist in residents, holiday home owners and business to identify the best actions to take
EstuaryWatch Victoria
EstuaryWatch is a successful citizen science program that supports community members to actively participate in the monitoring of estuary health. It connects people in the community with similar interests about their local environment First established at the Corangamite CMA in 2006 Today there are 18 estuaries monitored by EstuaryWatch groups in Victoria supported by EstuaryWatch Coordinators across Victoria EstuaryWatch supports scientific research conducted by volunteers with good quality assurance and quality control
Waterwatch Victoria
A community engagement program connecting local communities with river health and sustainable water issues and management Over 20 years of waterway monitoring data collected by community volunteers Informing decisions and management actions including algal bloom management, acid sulphate soil impacts on estuarine condition, environmental water management and extreme flood events Supported by the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Catchment Management Authorities, water corporations, local government, the education sector and the scientific community
CeRDI eResearch approach
Research collaboration with industry and community partners taking
advantage of the eResearch tools to:
Interoperably integrate data (open data, research data, big data,
sensor data, legacy data, crowd-sourced data… any data)
Answer the frequently asked data/information questions
Dynamically generate conceptual and predictive models
Make new discoveries and avoid repeating past research
Measure the impacts on decision making and facilitate practice
change
Third party e.g. ABARE, ABS, BOM, CSIRO, EPAs, Unis, ………State base mapping, etc. Water agencies, research organisations, industry, individuals, etc.
End users, e.g. Browser, mobile application, desktop application, groundwater model, etc. Used by: researcher, community group, farmer, environmentalist, media outlet, agribusiness, etc.
Output as: web services (W3C, OGC
compliant)
Input as: Data, map layers, grids, text
and imagery in native format (or web services)
Citizen science
Landcare, environmental and community groups landholders, farmers, individuals tourists, visitors schools, TAFE, University students clubs, volunteers
GIS
SQL
Sensors
Images
Documents
Organisational data
Sounds
CeRDI capability: interoperability
CeRDI capability: Systems architecture
Further informationAnnual reports
www.cerdi.edu.au/cb_pages/annual_reports.php
Websiteshttp://spatial.federation.edu.au and www.cerdi.edu.au
Short documentary films
Online Farm Trials www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6pIYRqrb0
Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w94pW1Jdic
NRM Planning www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQETGvo_G8w
Impact research publication
http://jh.iwaponline.com/content/early/2015/10/24/hydro.2015.169