Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

CeRDI Research

EPA Presentation

22 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’s Research and Innovation Portfolio

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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

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

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

Changes over timeMonitoring potassium and phosphorus levels/trends

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

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