Alison Specht

Alison Specht (BScHons, PhD UQ) is an environmental scientist with broad expertise in research, teaching, and community engagement. For many years she was an academic at the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University. From 2009 to 2014 she was the director of the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (www.aceas.org.au), a facility of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (www.tern.org.au), based at the University of Queensland. Between September 2015 and January 2019 she was Director of the CEntre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity in France, CESAB. She was a member of the DataONE (www.dataone.org) Usability and Assessment Working Group from its inception in 2010 to 2021, and has interests and expertise in data management and the preservation of archival data. She initiated the formation of the International Synthesis Consortium (www.synthesis-consortium.org), whose mission is to increase the effectiveness and recognition of the value of synthesis centres. Since 2020 she has held an advisory position with TERN, as an Ecosystem Research Analyst. She was a co-lead of the PARSEC project (www.parsecproject.org) a Belmont Forum funded project entitled 'Building new tools for data sharing and re-use through a transnational investigation of the socioeconomic impacts of protected areas'.

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Data IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Jane Wyngaard, Lindsay Barbieri, Dimane Mpoeleng, Alice Fremand

TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg

Update: In the immediate much of our disucssions are happening on this Slack channel, to join see this link Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are rapidly becoming important tools for data capture...

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Data Conservation IG

Member

Chair(s): Denise Hills, Stephen Diggs

Building on the work of the Data Rescue IG, the Data Conservation IG will both expand scope to all types of data (both digital and analog), and focus on decision-making topics including: How are data...

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Long tail of research data IG

Member

Stage: IG Established

Chair(s): Kathleen Shearer

Status: Recognised & Endorsed Universities and research institutions are becoming increasingly interested in collecting and providing access to datasets produced at their institution that do no...

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Sharing Rewards and Credit (SHARC) IG

Member

Stage: Completed

Chair(s): Christopher Erdmann, Federica Quaglia, Francis P. Crawley

Secretariat Liaison: Secretariat Group Account

The SHARC Interest Group is no longer active. Many really important and valuable discussions and outputs have taken place over its lifetime and you are invited to view the outputs here. Short prese...