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Budding scientists build better maps

TERN’s online ‘Geo-Wiki’ tool crowdsources the on-ground observations and local knowledge of volunteers to help validate and improve map products derived from satellite imagery. Thanks ...
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People using TERN: James Furlaud

Improving bushfire behaviour models for Tasmanian wet forests using data collected at TERN’s forest research plots The 2016 Tasmanian bushfires have been described as the ...
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Towards a global ecosystem observatory

Global problems need global solutions. TERN has always recognised that when we tackle complex issues such as climate change or biodiversity loss we need an ...
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TERN active in ESA’s first symposium on open data in ecology

For the first time, the Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) conference included a symposium addressing the challenges and opportunities surrounding the open data revolution thanks ...
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Fire danger rating today, tomorrow, in 2030, in 2070?

Roadside signs tell us what today’s fire danger is, but wouldn’t it be nice to know what it will be in the future under a ...
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Long-term desert ecology data now openly-available through diverse TERN data infrastructure

Decades of observations on Australia’s iconic arid plants and animals are now available via TERN’s data infrastructure. Our advanced data infrastructure and links to international ...
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Data collection to publication: infrastructure for ecological monitoring and decision making

Tooling to support simple, efficient and accurate end-to-end field data collection, curation, archiving and publishing is now available for ecologists working across the Australian outback, ...
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Ray Leuning

23 October 1948 – 12 February 2016 Dr. Ray Leuning was one of the foundational members of the eddy covariance flux community and a driving ...
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Data in demand: Australian flux data downloads surge thanks to new global open-access

An international network of high-tech flux measuring towers enables us to watch continents breathe in and out, every hour, every day, over all seasons and ...
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Creative hackathon solutions demonstrate value of NCRIS and CSIRO data

Last month NCRIS and CSIRO data providers, together with the University of Melbourne, hosted the Melbourne Science Hackfest. Developers, data librarians, data technologists, researchers, data ...
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