Moreton Bay Greening as We Grow (QLD)

Using Open Data from a variety of sources, help us create a sustainable future and protect our local flora and fauna. Ideas and examples could include:

• Improving our communities recycling awareness, identification, and classification of what can and can’t be recycled
• Managing and protecting our biodiversity from invasive species
• Circular economy solutions
• Urban heat island effects
• Tracking and monitoring the health of our local Koalas and platypi
• Climate change mitigation strategies
• All ideas welcome, and remember to focus on our Moreton Bay region!

This Moreton Bay challenge was put together by a consortium of business, education and government organisations, all passionate about our local region. We will have a group of university students and local business leaders participating on campus at UniSC Moreton Bay alongside local innovators, and we encourage you to join with them in putting a spotlight on our region.

We are looking for innovative ideas to use our data to promote a sustainable future for the City of Moreton Bay. We are looking for a snappy pitch, an innovative approach and a working prototype of the solution. The challenge has been kept broad in nature to harness and unlock your creative ideas.

Help us create a sustainable future and protect our local flora and fauna!


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External Links

1. Council has a broad range of open datasets available that can be found on our datahub https://datahub.moretonbay.qld.gov.au
2. Council has a number of climate sensors around the region, along with flood and rainfall sensors. Please take time to look through the available IOT devices. https://datahub.moretonbay.qld.gov.au
3. Council has data sets on our waste facility locations and has significant supplementary material on our website. Check out the waste education section on recycling for ideas
4. Council also has additional data and reports for supplementary material on the council website https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/

FYI BOM has a weather station at Redcliffe which can be accessed for free via BOM.gov.au (http://reg.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDQ60901/IDQ60901.95591.json
Council also provides BOM flood warning station data for those it operates. http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/flood/networks/owner_listing.shtml. This provides the latest river heights for various locations across the council. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ60286.html#Pine/Caboolture

These dataset links are provided below as well.