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25.01.2022 Happy 2021! Really looking forward to another year of providing you with the research data, tools, methods and samples to enable your ecosystem science research! Check out the image or the web link for a reminder of our free and open access services: https://tern.org.au Do hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about how to use TERN.

25.01.2022 Miss last month's TERN webinar on 'standardising environmental information collection: harmonising Australia’s approaches‘? Don't worry, you can watch it (and all previous TERN Ecosystem Observation webinars) via our website: https://www.tern.org.au/events/#archive

25.01.2022 Exciting new MER network pilot announced! During last week's TERN Ecosystem Observations webinar the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment made the exciting announcement of a 3yr project trialling Australia’s first monitoring, evaluation and research (MER) network! We're proud to be a partner in this new initiative that will promote national-scale learning of bushfire recovery and the ecological effectiveness of post-fire interventions. Check out the... project flyer here: https://slideshare.net/TERNCOM/mer-pilot-network-flyer-2020 CSIRO See more

23.01.2022 From modelling weather and predicting fires to understanding human health impacts and monitoring ecosystem recovery, Australia's national research infrastructure (NCRIS) supports bushfire research, recovery and resilience in so many wonderful ways! Find out how via the images. Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment

23.01.2022 ICYMI, last year we released a new version of the TERN ausplotsR package. It provides free and instant access to a decade of soil and vegetation data collected at >780 environmental monitoring sites across Australia. Find out more: https://www.tern.org.au/news-new-ausplotsr/

22.01.2022 Exciting PhD opportunity on biodiversity and ecosystem service markets within a larger project funded by Queensland Agriculture and Meat & Livestock Australia. If you're interested in biodiversity, restoration and grazing land management contact The University of Queensland's Dr Bradd Witt ASAP: https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/172

21.01.2022 Increasing temperatures and drought frequency may diminish the benefits of fertilisation in managed grasslands. That's the main finding of a recently completed study conducted at 21 research sites around the world, including four of TERN’s, that analysed how nutrient addition affects the ability of soil organisms to process organic matter and how climate modulates this response. The results have significant implications for global land management and carbon budgeting. Read more: https://www.tern.org.au/news-nutnet-grasslandscience/

17.01.2022 Exciting progress by CSIRO and the Smart Sat CRC in the AquaWatch mission. A 12-month scoping study will investigate how satellites in space and a network of ground-based sensors could be used to monitor the quality of Australia’s inland waterways, reservoirs and coastal environments. The AquaWatch Australia mission, being developed by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency and the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) is one of a number of missions - large research... initiatives - aimed at solving Australia's greatest challenges. They are focused on outcomes that lead to positive impact, new jobs and economic growth. In this case, ensuring we can maintain and manage water quality - our most important and vital resource.

16.01.2022 Exciting UQ Science webinar later this month from Dr Helene Muller-Landau of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama on the productivity of tropical forests. 25 September 11am AEST Title: Patterns and mechanisms of spatial variation in tropical forest productivity, woody residence time, and biomass. Zoom ID 935 4928 6425... See you online... https://biological-sciences.uq.edu.au/about/seminar-series The University of Queensland

16.01.2022 More great research using TERN just published! Check out this paper on the vegetation around Adelaide and South Australia. Indicates we are likely to see a gradual change in vegetation due to climate change rather than any big thresholds. https://bit.ly/2VZ34jz

15.01.2022 Digital soil assessment: an essential component of a national ecosystem observatory. National scale soils information is critical for informing decisions across domains in environment, agriculture, engineering, and climate response, and enables researchers to measure changes in Australia’s ecosystems over time from local to continental scales. We talk to outgoing TERN platform co-lead, Mike Grundy, about the immense value digital soil mapping and assessment adds to a national... ecosystem observatory. Read more here: https://www.tern.org.au/news-digital-soil-assessments/ CSIRO

15.01.2022 And we're off! The TERN Field Team on their way to Kangaroo Island to conduct detailed post-fire environmental surveys. Data and samples will help understand ecosystem recovery and resilience: https://www.tern.org.au/news-ki-bushfire-surveys/ Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife

14.01.2022 Congratulations Professor Hugh Possinghama founding architect of TERNon your appointment as Queensland Chief Scientist! We look forward to working closely over the coming years to continue delivering environmental, science and research impact for Queensland, Australia and beyond. https://www.chiefscientist.qld.gov.au//current-chief-scien

14.01.2022 Asia/Oceania, check out these fantastic eResearch talks as part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Virtual Plenary 16 - Regional Event 23-27 Nov 2020. From FAIR & research software to skills development and understanding the role of data in responding to the COVID19 pandemic, there's something for everyone! https://rd-alliance.org//rda-virtual-plenary-16-regional-e

13.01.2022 This month we shine our Centre Spotlight on Edith Cowan University (ECU)'s Centre for Ecosystem Management and its collaborative work to achieve effective ecosystem management, conservation and ecological research: https://www.tern.org.au/centre-spotlight-centre-for-ecosys/

12.01.2022 Site of the Month: Alice Mulga SuperSite More than a decade of ecosystem measurements in Australia’s Red Centre are providing an unprecedented understanding of the health and function of Australia’s vast arid ecosystems. The data tell a tale of a tough life in the desert, with highly variable rainfall patterns and carbon dynamics, but of which, thanks to research infrastructure investments, Australia’s scientists are developing an intimate understanding. Read the story here: https://www.tern.org.au/site-of-the-month-alice-mulga-supe/ UTS: University of Technology Sydney

11.01.2022 Visually stunning and scientifically engaging ABC Australia 7.30 story on sea-level rise in Kakadu National Park featuring Charles Darwin University RIEL's Lindsay Hutley, lead of TERN's Litchfield Savanna SuperSite.

08.01.2022 September's TERN Director's update featuring: - Our recent strategic planning day to refresh the prioritisation of TERN’s core data packages & signature products; - the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI); - congratulations to the new Qld Chief Scientist; - the recent ICOS science conference;... & more... https://www.tern.org.au/directors-update-september-2020/ See more

08.01.2022 Next week, a team of TERN ecologists will return to Kangaroo Island to re-survey 12 permanent environmental monitoring plots established by TERN in 2018, half of which were burnt in the 2019/2020 bushfires. The new data collected by the TERN Field Team will add to key baseline information collected pre-fire and enable the tracking of post-fire recovery rates and ecosystem resilience. Read more: https://www.tern.org.au/news-ki-bushfire-surveys/... Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife The University of Adelaide Waite Research Institute South Australian Museum Threatened Species Commissioner

08.01.2022 Attending this month's Ecological Society of Australia conference? We are and we invite you to join our 'hands-on' online workshop to learn how to publish your research data in TERN's secure repositories. Tuesday 1 Dec 12101315 https://esa2020.org.au/online-workshops/ Hope to see you there...

07.01.2022 National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) projects have helped Australia pivot quickly to respond to COVID-19 from developing and testing vaccines to designing treatment drugs and manufacturing PPE. Find out more here: https://www.education.gov.au//how-australia-s-national-res With regards to TERN, our sensors have operated 24/7 during the pandemic lock-down and provide ecosystem researchers with unique data from the enormous unintended experiment of reduced pollutants and human impact across the continent. Explore all TERN data via: https://tern.org.au/data/

04.01.2022 Here's a fantastic offer for people thinking about attending this year's eResearch Australasia Conference! Get in quick and we'll see you online in October! Registrations are now open - save $100 with earlybird registration via https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/2020-registration/ - as a bonus, the first 300 registered attendees will receive an awesome delegate’s bag of goodies (inc short and mug) to help celebrate our online conference format.... eResearch Online will offer delegates the opportunity to engage, connect, and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new eResearch capabilities, and how information and communication technologies help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, understand and re-use data and information.

04.01.2022 A few pics from 2020 TERN surveys on Kangaroo Island after the devastating 2019/20 bushfires. The data collected will add to pre-fire baseline information and enable the tracking of post-fire recovery rates and ecosystem resilience. Data openly available via TERN's AusPlots R package very soon: https://tern.org.au/data/

03.01.2022 Site of the Month: Ashley Dene For this month’s site feature, let’s journey to Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand. The Ashley Dene OzFlux site is located in one of New Zealand’s large dairy regions, on the Canterbury Plains, and its data are essential contributions to research projects on the carbon, water and nitrogen exchange of dairy forage systems. Find out more: https://www.tern.org.au/site-of-the-month-ashley-dene/ Lincoln University Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

03.01.2022 $1.2M of ARC funding secured for Australia's 1st Critical Zone Observatory! The funding will support the development of a robust, long-term strategy for more effective and collaborative critical zone science and five foundational sites with integrated monitoring equipment to observe the vertical span from plant canopies to fresh bedrock. These observations will be made openly available via TERN infrastructure to help researchers improve the sustainability of food, clean wate...r, mineral resources and ecosystems. The new CZO network will be implemented via TERN and project partners. Congratulations all involved! Details to come... ARC funding page: https://www.arc.gov.au//selection-report-linkage-infrastru The University of Western Australia The University of Adelaide University of New South Wales UTS: University of Technology Sydney

01.01.2022 More exciting research using TERN data featured in the media today! The work relied heavily on TERN's Australia-wide vegetation biomass data and LiDAR laser scanning data products collected at various TERN sites over the past 10 years. Congratulations team on this fantastic study and associated web app! The Australian National University