ARC LIEF Atmospheric integrated research on burdens and oxidative capacity (Airbox) has been funded by the Australian Research Council ($630k) in 2015. Airbox will provide a custom built shipping container that will provide mobile atmospheric chemistry observations. This will allow for state-of-the-art observations of composition, physical parameters and aerosols relevant for international environmental treaties on air-quality, mercury, ozone depleting substances and greenhouse gases. The PRESS team are responsible for the underlying IT infrastructures that will support scientific data capture, data transport (telemetry), data analytics and visualisation of the data on servers at the University of Melbourne. A challenge of this work is the remoteness of the locations and the lack of / restricted internet that is available in those remote locations, especially with the volume of data sets that will be captured.

Clean Air and Urban Landscapes (CAUL) has been funded ($8.8m) by the Department of the Environment (DotE) as part of the National Environment Science Program (NESP). The mission of the CAUL Hub is to take a comprehensive view of the sustainability and liveability of urban environments. It recognises that clean air and urban landscapes are keys to Australia’s economic prosperity, environmental sustainability and population health. However CAUL recognises that cities are the most complex interactive systems humans have constructed. Any intervention—planting more trees or investing in new transport options—has a range of consequences from the chemical to the political. The PRESS team are involved in the provisioning of the underpinning IT systems that support the integration of data and interworking of the range of research activities more generally. These systems are based around extensions to the AURIN platform to include new data from organisations such as the Bureau of Meteorology and the Environmental Protection Agency.