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Five stories of flora and fauna after Australia’s bushfires Burgeoning recoveries from Australia’s largest ever bushfire. (Image: hamiltonphillipa/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SA) Around one year ago, Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season ended, leaving more than 8 million hectares across south-east Australia a mix of charcoal, ash and smoke. An estimated three billion animals were killed or displaced, not including invertebrates. The impact of the fires on biodiversity was too vast for professional scientists alone to collect data. So in the face of this massive challenge, we set up a com...

Community scientists have been photographing animals and plants in the months after the Black Summer fires. Each observation is a story of survival against the odds, or of tragedy.

American Sea Power Dialogue The first “page-to-stage” event for the American Sea Power Project will be a virtual event on 22 April featuring the authors of the first three articles in the project: Captain Gerry Roncolato and Commander Paul Giarra, Professor Jim Holmes, and Nick Lambert. This will be a live event with opportunities for the audience to submit questions to the authors in real time. Registration is coming soon at www.usni.org/events and more details will be provided in the April Proceedings and on our website. Congratulations Essay Contest Winners We recently selected the wi...

Hackathon Winners ovrhd Build on Dock Media Links Zurich, Switzerland Dock is excited to announce that ovrhd (pronounced ‘overhead’), winners of the prestigious Odyssey Momentum Hackathon, have built their solution on top of Dock’s technology. Their winning hackathon entry, "Conscious Cities: Driving Adoption of Living Labs”, addressed the problem of overcrowding within the desirable district of Scheveningen in the City of The Hague in the Netherlands, seeking to rebalance the needs of residents, business owners, and government so that the area can be enjoyed to its fullest by everyon...

Dock Awarded Contract to Advise German Development Agency on Professional Profile Data Wallet for Global Learners RealWire 2020-12-23 23rd December 2020. Dock, the creators of the Dock Network, has been awarded a contract to assist Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, a German development agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation. The 3-month project will see Dock provide expertise on the technical architecture and features for a professional profile data wallet linked to atingi, a digital learning platform buil...