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3rd Annual National Symposium
When: 28 & 29 March 2012
Where: The National Wine Centre of Australia, The University of Adelaide
Theme: Leading by Example: research and management impact of shared ecosystem data
Read the media release for the event here.
Program
Monday 26 March: TERN Board meeting [closed]
Tuesday 27 March: TERN Facilities meeting [closed]
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The ACEAS Great Debate: Will European land use devastate Australia's unique biodiversity? Chaired by Sara Philips, Editor, ABC Environment Online Visit the RiAus website for more information. Read the media release for the event here. |
TIME: 5.30-7.30pm
VENUE: The Science Exchange |
Wednesday 28 March & Thursday 29 March:
PART 1: INSPIRATION AND CURRENT STATUS
| WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH 2012 | |
| 0815 | Registration Open |
| 0845 | Welcome to Country |
| 0900 | Symposium Opening Remarks |
| 0910 | Welcome and goals for the symposium – Professor Tim Clancy, TERN Director, and Professor Andrew Campbell, TERN Board Chair |
| 0930 |
Keynote Address 1 – TERN as a game-changer: big opportunities and big responsibilties [video file] Speaker: Dr Steve Morton, CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences |
| 1015 | BREAK |
| 1045 | Current status of TERN – Professor Tim Clancy, TERN Director |
| 1115 |
Introduction of TERN's Data Delivery Infrastructure:
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| 1300 | LUNCH – TERN Data Delivery Infrastructure demonstrations |
| 1400 | TERN Data Delivery Infrastructure demonstrations continue |
| 1500 | BREAK – TERN Data Delivery Infrastructure demonstrations continue |
| 1530 |
Keynote Address 2 – National infrastructure and programs for biodiversity data collection, synthesis and analysis in France [video file] Speaker: Dr Xavier le Roux, Senior Scientist (INRA); Team Leader (Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Lyon, France); Coordinator of the European network 'BiodivERsA' and the biodiversity observatories network 'EcoScope' (France) |
| 1630 | CLOSE |
| 1900 |
TERN Dinner Speaker: Dr Paul Willis, Director, Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) Getting the message out: how do we communicate science to the populace? |
PART 2: LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY AND PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
| THURSDAY 29 MARCH 2012 | |
| 0815 | Registration Open |
| 0845 | Examples of science and management supported by sharing and integration - Professor Andrew Lowe and Professor Stuart Phinn, TERN Associate Science Directors |
| 1000 |
DataONE: supporting the data life cycle and transforming ecological research and conservation [video file] Guest Speaker: Professor Bill Michener, University Libraries and Principal Investigator of DataONE, University of New Mexico (USA) |
| 1030 | BREAK – TERN Data Delivery Infrastructure demonstrations continue |
| 1100 |
Group discussion: TERN and YOU! Are we providing the infrastructure and processes to support Australia's ecosystem science and management for the next 20 years? |
| 1200 | Group report and discussion |
| 1300 | LUNCH |
| 1340 | TERN 2015 and beyond – Perspectives from the TERN Board, TERN Facility Directors and Ecosystem Science and Management Communities |
| 1445 | Summary of outcomes and announcement of next TERN symposium – Professor Tim Clancy, TERN Director |
| 1500-1530 | CLOSE and Afternoon Tea |
The April issue of the TERN e-Newsletter is out, and it's full of news about the symposium, the symposium, the ACEAS Great Debate, an OzFlux workshop, and the symposium. Read all about it!
Helping Manage our Land; AusPlots-Rangelands covers an immense area, 81 per cent of Australia with 54 bioregions, which is characterised by vast spaces, old soils, weathered features, low erratic rainfall and diverse animal and plant populations
PowerPoint presentations and videos of keynote presentations from the TERN Annual National Symposium are now available.
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