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Australia’s leading ICT research agency National ICT Australia has unveiled plans to use data analytics and information mining tools to build Australia’s knowledge base of environmental science and research, encompassing geosciences, physics, and ecology.

This project taps into the data analytics expertise of key educational institutions, including Sydney University and Macquarie University. The partnership involves an expanded use of big data for new insights into the natural sciences, as well as Australia’s evolutionary history, and impact of climate change.

The US$11 million (AUD12 million) three-year research project fast-tracks the use of data analytics, and information mining tools for scientific insights and discovery.

This project is supported by additional funding from Australia’s Science and Industry Endowment Fund, and combined research collaboration over the life of the project.

Professor Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist of Australia, says this project positions Australia to one day be home to a new generation of big data analytics apps. Data analytics is being used increasingly by scientists worldwide to advance, and pool their knowledge base.

The multi-disciplinary team from NICTA, Macquarie University and University of Sydney, are using advanced data analytics tools to “open a window on some of the mysteries of biodiversity,” notes Professor Chubb.

This information-sharing also shows how ecosystems are affected by climate change and other environmental factors.

This project combines publicly-available geological data from Geosciences Australia. This data offers a snapshot of what Australia was like 1.5 billion years ago, and how its rich metal deposits were formed.

Under the project, work in complex laser systems will help improve the security of optical fibre communications networks. Sophisticated data analysis reduces the amount of raw throughput needed for successful experiments. This access also fast-tracks scientific progress.

NICTA’s CEO, Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte, says this data analytics project explores a “new and powerful paradigm for data intensive science.” Data and the right software are “powerful catalysts” for breakthroughs involving scientific research and innovation.

This project taps into the expertise of SIRCA. SIRCA, a not-for-profit coalition, brings together leading Australian and New Zealand universities. This coalition is developing and providing relevant global data and advanced tools. This alliance promotes and enables research and innovation, especially by member universities.

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Autor(en)/Author(s): Shahida Sweeney

Quelle/Source: futureGov, 05.06.2013

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