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119 Posts in ‘Land & Terrain” Found
Monitoring the impacts of bushfires on soils
Analyses of soil and vegetation samples collected by TERN on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, before and after the catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire are enabling scientists to ...
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Getting the measure of soil moisture in Australia
TERN’s new world-leading soil moisture information system provides nation-wide daily estimates of volumetric soil moisture at a 1km resolution and an index of how full ...
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Reviewing post-fire recovery and ecological management effectiveness
TERN, CSIRO and the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment are developing Australia’s first Monitoring, Evaluation and Research network. The new network ...
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Site of the Month: French Island
This month we’re showcasing one of the newest sites in the TERN OzFlux network—French Island—and its measurement of methane and the dynamic coastal wetlands that ...
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Top 3 things that control ecosystem behaviour revealed
The prestigious journal Nature has just published a substantial international study involving TERN Australia personnel and use of TERN data. The study identified three main ...
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Accessing disparate soil data
TERN’s SoilDataFederator makes multiple, disparate sources of soil data available ‘on the fly’ in consistent, easy to use formats. The SoilDataFederator significantly eases access to ...
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TERN digital soil maps the next best thing for locked-down students
Movement restrictions have forged stronger connections between TERN and university educators. Teaching academics no longer able to take their students on field excursions because of ...
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The pillars of Australia’s research system
Australia is on the verge of making further substantial investments in the assets, facilities and services that support the nation’s health, STEM and agricultural research ...
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Sydney weather and air quality data now available from TERN
Detailed time-series weather and air-quality data collected at Sydney schools are now available for download via TERN. The data collected by the Schools Weather and ...
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How do we quantify Australia’s ecosystem services?
In this, our second popular science articles from TERN, Prof. Andy Lowe discusses the measures and metrics used to track the state, condition and trajectory ...
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