EcoCommons Australia will begin external testing of their new online modelling platform at three workshops held during the 61^st annual conference of the Ecological Society of Australia, ESA2021. This event, which will be held online from Monday 22^nd – Friday 26^th November 2021, will see hundreds of Australian ecologists meeting to discuss the environmental challenges of the past year, what they mean for Australia and how they can be best managed.

The EcoCommons online platform is a world-first collaborative space for analysing and modelling ecological and environmental challenges.

During the initial testing, ESA2021 attendees will work through the improved functionality drawn from the ecocloud and the Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory (BCCVL) platforms which are migrating to EcoCommons. There will be two introductory workshops on coding in R using EcoCommons’ coding environment, and a further workshop on species distribution modelling and climate projections using the simple online tools.

The EcoCommons Program Manager, Dr Elisa Bayraktarov, will also provide an overview of the online modelling platform.

Over the next 12 months, EcoCommons will be adding several additional scientific workflows, including Community Modelling tools working with Generalised Dissimilarity Models, and Biosecurity Risk Mapping.

EcoCommons is excited to learn what kinds of improvements or additional workflows would help make the lives of ecological modellers easier. You can become an EcoCommons Pioneer and help shape the evolving platform, before it is officially launched at the next Ecological Society of Australia conference in November 2022.

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Dr Robert Clemens (EcoCommons Change and Communications Manager)

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Dr Elisa Bayraktarov (EcoCommons Program Manager)

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