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TERN infrastructure supports international ‘dream team’

TERN’s collaborative networks and infrastructure are drawing international attention and enabling Australian scientists to lead the way in advancing ecosystem science globally. The international value ...
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Cosmic-ray probe installed above the forest floor at the Tumbarumba supersite

Cosmic help for down-to-Earth environmental monitoring

Way back in the early 1900s physicists learned that when cosmic rays from outer space collide with particles in the Earth’s atmosphere and soil, neutrons ...
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Eco-informatics and data custodians partnering for success

In working towards the vision of a collaborative and multi-disciplinary Australian ecosystem science community, TERN has always placed a strong focus on working closely with ...
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Mapping the Top End with an eye to agriculture

TERN’s soils facility, the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia, is in the thick of land evaluations that will map the suitability of northern Australian ...
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Agriculture, forestry, tourism and wildlife under TERN microscope in the west

For nearly a decade, Western Australia has enjoyed one of the most spectacular resources booms in the country’s history. In such a context it might ...
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From tall trees to high country, TERN infrastructure measures Victoria

From the productive agricultural landscapes around the headwaters of the Murray River, to the Victorian high country and Alps, through to the tall eucalypt forests ...
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imageMr Phil Wilkes and Dr Lola Suarez from RMIT were part of an AusCover field campaign at the Litchfield Savanna Supersite in June 2013. AusCover's work in the field plays a vital role in calibrating and validating remote-sensing products.

NATT the backbone of NT research

The Northern Territory (NT) is home to some of Australia’s most recognisable and distinctive landscapes and ecosystems, and is also Australia’s most sparsely populated state ...
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AusPlots moves east to build national network

Emrys Leitch and Ian Fox from AusPlots with Stefan Caddy-Retalic from the Australian Transect Network getting uncharacteristically damp collecting plantsin the Queensland Gulf Country The AusPlots ...
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Appreciating the value of open-access data

Most infrastructure investments depreciate over time. By contrast, investments in ecosystem data actually appreciate in value as time passes – as long as the data ...
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LTERN publications catalogued

To understand the patterns, relationships and dependencies in the environment, there is a need for well-designed long-term ecological research and monitoring. In Australia this need ...
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