Governance

The project will have a Governance Group that will meet several times throughout the project whose primary functions will be to:

• provide strategic guidance and direction to the project and the lead agent;
• ensure the project is delivered on time and to budget;
• assist in planning for future activities and projects;
• ensure project activities are relevant to the environmental metagenomics research community;
• provide assistance in leveraging and aligning with other eResearch projects, data and infrastructure providers and other national initiatives in the environmental research community; and
• promote project benefits in the environmental metagenomics community.

Membership will include:

Researchers with coordinating roles across the BASE and MM efforts:

• Prof Torsten Thomas, UNSW
• Dr Martin Ostrowski, Macquarie University

The lead agent:

• Bioplatforms Australia

The funding agency:

• ANDS/Nectar/RDS

And organisations contributing significant in-kind resources to the project:

• Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF)
• Melbourne Bioinformatics
• Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)