When: Saturday 15th August

Times: Bus departs Cairns 7:40am, returns 5:00pm-5:30pm

Where: Bus pickup/dropoff point is Cairns Central YHA, 20-26 McLeod St

Contact: Carl Schedlich,

The Great Barrier Reef will provide a fantastic setting for the full day trip to the uninhabited Frankland Islands.

Stuart Kininmonth, from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, will present on applications of spatial technologies pertinent to the area. There will also be plenty of time for networking, snorkelling and enjoying the natural beauty of an uninhabited tropical island.

The day has been organised by the Far North Queensland SSSI YPs. Although a SSSI YP is someone who is a member of the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute aged under 36 at the time of registration, attendance is open to anyone who is interested. Please register ASAP as bookings are strictly limited.

Well its that time of the year again where the Fungis memberships are due!

We now accept online credit card payments for Fungis membership payments. Payments are processed by PayPal, but you do NOT need a PayPal account.

- Corporate Memberships (member benefits of up to 5 employees)  $150

- Individual Membership is $50

- Students $20

Renew your membership by clicking "Pay Membership" in the main menu and continue to receive fantastic newsletters & discount rates to informative workshops and conferences.

If you are interested in becoming a new member please contact us for a membership form

Mark your diaries for August 13-14 as Fungis and the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) Qld Young Professionals collaborate to bring you a two day workshop to be held at the Rydes Tradewinds Esplanade on the Cairns waterfront.

Themed 'Emerging Spatial Technologies', this years event promises to be loaded with exciting and innovative new content.

Including a roundup of regional activities, a mystery tour and a review of the latest technologies, this years annual event is shaping up as one not to be missed!

The SSI Far North Qld Young Professionals are organising an entertaining and informative trip to the Great Barrier Reef as a follow up field day on Saturday 15th  August for the young and young at heart.

NB. Registration for the dinner and reef trip are not included in the conference registration.

The following documents are available for download:

Draft program

Sponsor Information

Refer to the menu on left for event booking and payment.

'Mapping Cultural Heritage and Native Title' proved the second successful Fungis workshop for 2009.

Thanks especially to the presenters efforts (and perhaps the beautiful weather), a lot of valuable ideas were exchanged.

The second in a series of five, this one day workshop was held on April 24th at the Rydges Tradewinds Esplanande.

The program included the following speakers:

• Rod Neilson, Girringun Aboriginal Corporation - Cultural Mapping Project; Why & What is the Value?

• John Richter, Natural Resource & Water - Cultural Heritage Management using Spatially Relevant Mapping.

• Geoff Mills, National Native Title Tribunal - Spatial Elements of Native Title

• Bennett Walker and Patrick Peever - Cultural Heritage Mapping & Recording

• Ian Fox, Phd Candidate Southern Cross University - Cultural Mapping, an experience of protocol & process in the Tweed, NE NSW.

• MLis Flynn, Masters Student in Community Development - "Cultural Mapping in Developing Countries – Outcomes & Challenges"

Some workshop presentations are available for download by clicking on the presentation titles above.

A program of the days proceedings is available for download here. 

Online payment facilities are available if still required.

Fungis delivered its second workshop for 2009, focussed on 'Mapping Native Title and Cultural Heritage'.

Thanks to Rod, Meagan, Sharlene, Bob and the presenters for all of their hard efforts, and to all of the people who attended.

Once again, the workshop was well attended, with excellent content. The day was topped by beautiful weather and a great venue!

Some of the many photos taken during the day are in the slide show below.  You need Adobe Flash Player 8 to view the slide show.  Download Flash Player

If you cannot see the slide show, and do not want to install Flash Player, you can view the same images here .

Fungis kicked off 2009 with a GIS File and Data Management Workshop  on February 6th at the Tradewinds Esplanade in Cairns.

Thanks to Alistair, Meagan, Sharlene, Bob and the presenters for all of their hard efforts, and to all of the people who attended.

A special thanks to ESRI Australia for their support.

Some of the many photos taken during the day are in the slide show below.

Thanks to Rod Nielsen for taking these photos.

Hold on to your hats folks, as Fungis continues to deliver an entire year of informative workshops...

October 9th – Reef Atlas and Water mapping

This is a half day workshop. If you'd like further information please contact Petina Pert

November 27th – Weeds mapping workshop/End of year get together

This is a half day workshop. If you'd like further information please contact Sharlene Blakeney

Please note: The website editing and maintenance workshop, originally scheduled for June 2009, has been postponed, to allow for review of the website content management system later this year. Pending outcomes of this revie, a website workshop is likely to proceed in 2010.

Don't forget that if you can't make it to these workshops, there is also the Emerging Spatial Technologies 2009 Conference in Cairns on August 13-14

Fungis needs everyone's help to make these events work, so if you'd like to lend a hand for any of our events, we'd love to hear from you.

To get in touch with the workshop coordinators, you can email

See you there!