HANSARD
SITTING CALENDAR
SEARCH
LIVE BROADCAST
Hansard Dynamic Member Index
House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2025-09-16 Daily Xml
Contents
Xml

Citizen Science Fund

In reply to Mr BASHAM (Finniss) (19 June 2025). (Estimates Committee A)

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Minister for Climate, Environment and Water, Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Minister for Workforce and Population Strategy): I have been advised of the following:

The biggest tangible outcome of the Citizen Science Strategy is the involvement of many hundreds of local citizens in the processes of scientific enquiry through the delivery of a range of large and smaller projects. These projects engage local communities and improve knowledge and understanding of our biodiversity and condition of our environment, which can inform future investment, policy and management actions.

A summary of both grants awarded is provided below:

Small grants (awarded in 2023):

Organisation Project Title Total grant
University of South Australia Mozzie Monitors in Schools $14,700
Flinders University How do human disturbancesaffect little penguin numbers, and recovery? $14,940
AUSMAP, Total Environment Centre Microplastic Mapping: Engaging citizens to find effectivesolutions for the future. $15,000
Brownhill Creek Association Inc. Yabbies as indicators of the health of a groundwater- dependent ecosystem in Brownhill Creek (Wirraparinga). $14,780
Miss Jessica Bamford Wild Webcap $11,355
Mr Brian Gepp A review of the relationship between fire and biodiversity, using previously unknown studies from 1974 and revisits to the same sites in 2024. $9,000
Mr Emmanuel Lukingan-Katz Citizen Science to restore Coffin Bay's Lost Oyster Reefs. $15,000
Friends of Belair National Park Support for Bush Buddies Belair. $7,200
Birdlife Australia Fleurieu Tern Monitoring Program. $15,000
Kangaroo lslandNictor Harbor Dolphin Watch Informing Conservation through Citizen Science Data Collection. $15,000


Large grants (awarded in 2024):

Organisation Project Title Total grant amount over 3 years
Fungimap Inc Fungi for function: bushland health indicators. $214,888
Austland Management Pty Ltd Enhancing resilience in a social-ecological system: citizen scientists building an understanding of arid woodland resilience to natural disturbance through a long-term phenology study. $120,955
Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation Nha ba Wuna Puwatingara Meritbii—to see and help freshwater turtle on Limestone Country. $60,000
Birdlife Australia Conservation through Knowledge: empowering citizen scientists in beach-nesting bird recovery. $136,587
Trees For Life If you build it what will come? Measuring Landscape Health $275,438
Flinders University Marine Hitchhikers of Eyre Peninsula: Citizen Science Program from Port Augusta through to Coffin Bay. $49,990
The Nature Conservation Society of South Australia Capacity building of citizen scientists for woodland bird monitoring. $77,056
The Trustee for Nature Glenelg Trust Limestone Coast community bird monitoring program—building capability for long term biodiversity monitoring to inform adaptive management. $80,000
Northern and Yorke Landscape Board Waterbug Bioblitzes and Waterwatch SA—Building community capacity through collaborative catchment monitoring across three Landscape SA regions. $150,954
Australian Citizen Science Association Inc Capacity Building Program for South Australia's Citizen Science Project Leaders. $147,456


PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS
MEMBERS
GET INVOLVED
ABOUT PARLIAMENT
VISIT
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
CONTACT