TERN Australia
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NCRIS-enabled national observatory for Australian ecosystems, delivering infrastructure and data for environmental research and management. #NCRISimpact
👨🏫 Students from @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social recently transformed Litchfield National Park into a #livingclassroom, using TERN’s national #ecosystemmonitoring infrastructure to investigate how #tropicalsavannas function, respond to fire and change through time. Read more: buff.ly/PXOZsel
🌳 How can we make Australia’s #vegetationdata easier to find, access & reuse? A TERN-led #study looks at barriers & opportunities for sharing vegetation data in Queensland, drawing on insights from government, researchers, industry & NRM. Read more: doi.org/10.53060/prs...
🐨 #JobAlert - Join TERN as a Project Officer supporting @aus-tsx.bsky.social! This is an exciting opportunity to help translate #environmental data into meaningful outcomes that support #conservation and policy. Applications close 13 August 2026, 11pm AEST. ✍️: tern.org.au/about/careers/
🎉 As #NCRIS marks its 20th anniversary, the experience of Australia’s national #researchinfrastructure program offers an important lesson for environmental research worldwide: meaningful evidence of environmental change depends on long-term #investment. Read more: buff.ly/kFcS1xJ
🚨 Last chance to register for our August #webinar! 📅 5 August 2026, 3pm AEST We bring together #science and nature communicators to help #environmental practitioners build skills and connections to share stories about Australia's ecosystems, biodiversity and climate. Register: buff.ly/ZXiBNCA
📰 Our latest Director’s Update is live. Explore how 20 years of #NCRIS investment have enabled TERN to build a skilled national #workforce, how we're working with Australian #teachers to inspire the next generation of ecologists, and more. Read more: buff.ly/Lxxn9fJ
👩🌾 Register now to attend the UWA Farm Ridgefield 2026 Open Day and see #research innovation in action! Friday, 11 September 2026. Hosted by the @ioauwa.bsky.social, see in-field research demos from the UWA's Best Practice #Farming Systems Project. Register here: buff.ly/snc7UrP
📡 Early computers filled rooms, consumed huge power and needed specialist crews. Today your wristwatch has more processing power than they did. That shift is happening with an #environmentalscience tool, timed for Australia’s #farmers and #climate future. Read more: buff.ly/BvQVcvT
📝 We're pleased to share Erin Farley will be speaking at our August #webinar! Erin is the Director of the Nature Media Centre with 20+ years of experience in #conservation advocacy and strategic #environmental messaging. Register now: buff.ly/9hzBP7h
📝 We're pleased to share @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social will be a speaker at our August #webinar! A skilled #science communicator, Kylie shares her passion for nature #conservation via The Conversation, The Guardian, ABC Radio National, public talks and her research blog. Register now: buff.ly/0aNbKsX
🌱 #Soils are dynamic, living systems vital to Earth's processes, yet still not fully understood. TERN's Soil & Herbarium Collection is contributing to important research addressing real-world problems in #climatescience, earth observation, #conservation & sustainability. Read more: buff.ly/KFBYYYq
📣 Register for TERN's August #webinar, 'Who gets to tell the story? The challenges and opportunities for ensuring the science gets heard'. 📅 5 August 2026 Our three guest speakers will unpack the incentives, biases, and trade-offs behind nature #communication in 2026. 📝: buff.ly/rKgi9ZD
🔥 The Global Grassy Group is a consortium of #ecologists and biologists standardising vegetation sampling in grassy biomes. By sharing methods it ensures comparable #datasets and highlights local partnerships and long-term monitoring that support international #research. Read more: buff.ly/mQzVsZC
🔍 Discover the Management Event Data for the ALTAR site South Eastern Queensland 1. It offers a spatiotemporal summary of key land-management events. ALTAR investigates how managed systems can balance productivity and environmental resilience. 📊 portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TER...
🌊 With Australia having the third largest area of #mangroves globally, it was great to be represented at the 7th Mangrove, Macrobenthos and Management Conference in Okinawa, Japan by TERN's Dr Madeline Goddard, talking about our #sealevel inundation #monitoring network, OzSET.
🌤️ A new suite of #dataproducts developed by CSIRO and TERN is available. Derived from geostationary Himawari-8/9 #satellite data, they provide continent-wide insights on total #solar radiation and cloud characteristics at ten-minute intervals. Read more: buff.ly/ZLWZvwf
📡 As a member of GERI, we’re highlighting fellow-member @icos-ri.eu new paper that reduces uncertainty in #GHG measurements, and shows #standardised global #observations cut that uncertainty, helping resolve long-standing scientific questions. Read more: geri-globalecosystemri.org/news/new-stu...
📰 TERN’s June newsletter is out now! Read about: #satellite products for tracking and forecasting solar irradiance, TERN + Global Grassy Group on fire’s role in tropical #ecosystems, TERN’s #soil collections, and more. Check it out: buff.ly/HzjVbZS
🎉 We’re celebrating NCRIS’ 20th anniversary nationwide with our Research Infrastructure teams! We also received a video message from Anne-Marie Lansdown, an original NCRIS architect, on how it provides infrastructure, expertise and national capability to enable impactful research. #NCRIS20 #Brisbane
✨ NCRIS: Celebrating 20 Years of Research Support and Innovation We were delighted to see such a huge turn out of government and industry leaders coming to celebrate NCRIS' 20th anniversary at Parliament House, last night. Here's to another 20 years of world-class national research! #NCRIS20
🎉 Congrats to UWA Centre for Water and Spatial Science on its 3‑year Seminar & Networking Event, and to Prof. Sally Thompson for receiving EGU's Henry Darcy Medal for hydrology. The research breadth was outstanding; TERN proudly participated and learned how widely its data and sites are used.
🐜 #Termites are perhaps the world's most consequential herbivores. With TERN’s support, researchers at CSIRO are developing a novel modelling framework that integrates termite activity to better represent nutrient, #carbon and methane dynamics in terrestrial #ecosystems. Read more: buff.ly/JhRxiB9
🤝 TERN joined a global initiative studying #fireimpacts in tropical savannas. By sharing #methods & expertise, we ensured TERN & Global Grassy Group #datasets are comparable, showing the value of partnerships & long-term monitoring for international research. Read more: buff.ly/TYGuRlX
🌳 Happy #WorldRainforestDay! #DYK this pair of Osprey have made a nest on the @jcu_dro Canopy crane for the past 15 years? This wholesome sight happens in the Daintree Rainforest, which we know a lot about, as JCU & TERN have been monitoring this rainforest since 2010. See the data: buff.ly/ZKKikhS
🔍 Discover the TERN EcoImages portal! EcoImages provides access to all images collected at TERN survey sites across Australia. You can find images related to #Phenocameras, Photopoints, Flora, #Fauna, and more. Check it out at ecoimages.tern.org.au #datadiscovery
📡 As this work unfolds across TERN’s #flux tower sites in WA’s Mediterranean ecoregion, encouraging preliminary #data suggests this approach is on the right track and could soon offer new insights into #ecosystemhealth. Read the full article: buff.ly/38cTvbs
🔍 Discover one of the longest running #data packages accessible through TERN, this data package contains #vegetation data collected at 481 long-term monitoring plots in the Australian Alps & Tasmania. 📊: buff.ly/ZKD5NjX #DataDiscovery
🥇 We're proud to see that the TERN IGSN ID Catalogue leads the world on a #metadata element that fewer than 1% of all DataCite records include: method descriptions. Across 126M+ records, TERN includes more than any other repository in DataCite. Read the full analysis: buff.ly/A9I5V5R
🌱 The peaty #soils that form Tasmania’s highland marshes have incredible #environmental and economic importance. With TERN’s support, hydrologists, botanists and ecologists are working together to better understand how they're responding to #climatechange. Read more: buff.ly/FGVFJEt