Nationally Relevant Environmental Monitoring Workshop: Existing approaches and future opportunities

The workshop is an opportunity for policy makers, practitioners and researchers to explore the technical challenges in achieving nationally relevant environmental monitoring, and the opportunities of new methodological and technological developments.

The environment’s capacity to service human needs and absorb human impacts is limited. The need to quantify, record and report on this capacity is firmly on the national policy agenda. A key impediment here is the lack of consistent, nationally relevant data, collected and analysed in a policy suitable format. The confluence of these issues has led to renewed calls for better collection and reporting of environmental data.

CSIRO in conjunction with other institutions is hosting a two day workshop to bring together policy makers, practitioners and researchers in environmental monitoring. Our goal is to foster a dialogue between these three groups, improving our joint understanding of the policy environment in which environmental monitoring occurs, how different jurisdictions approach monitoring, and lastly discuss new opportunities in monitoring program design and implementation.

This is the first stage in what we hope will become an ongoing national dialogue on advancing environmental monitoring to improve its impact and relevance to local, regional and national decision making.

The first day focuses on the technical challenges in achieving nationally relevant environmental monitoring and considers approaches that are currently in place. The second day focuses on frontiers in environmental monitoring and explores the opportunities of new methodological and technological developments. 

Be sure to mark your calendar for the Nationally Relevant Environmental Monitoring Workshop.

Read CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences overview.