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Developing data-management practices for the future

TERN’s national ecosystem data infrastructure is playing a critical role in supporting effective data-management practices across the Australian ecosystem science community. We continue to work ...
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US students plant seedlings at a revegetation plot at the DRO (Photo by
Cassandra Nichols)

Learners of all kinds roll up their sleeves for work at supersites

US students plant seedlings at a revegetation plot at the DRO (Photo by Cassandra Nichols) Scientists at the Daintree Rainforest Observatory (DRO) are used to working ...
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Soil info app-solutely useful for farm advisers

Mobile technology is giving land managers instant access to localised soil information (Photo courtesy of CSIRO) This month we’re pleased to hear from Claire Harris at ...
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Greater than the sum of its parts: TERN’s synthetic power

The maturity of TERN’s ecosystem research infrastructure, and the many ways in which diverse stakeholders are already using it to achieve new things, was very ...
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Where do you sit on the data publishing continuum?

Some of the most animated moments at the 2013 TERN Symposium – and there were a few! – occurred during conversations about data publication. These ...
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Two launches open TERN’s 2013 symposium

TERN’s 2013 symposium is off to a high-flying start, with two launches at the welcome drinks at the elegant Old Parliament House in Canberra this ...
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A Commodore computer and floppy discs … Kris French reminds the audience how
data was stored and analysed in the 1980s

Access to others’ data the way to answer the big questions

TERN fills a gap in the ‘wide open space’ in Australian landscape ecology for Professor Kris French, the President of the Ecological Society of Australia. ...
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Dr Vanessa Haverd speaking about CMAR's carbon and climate research

Carbon data improving models, research and policy

Dr Vanessa Haverd speaking about CMAR’s carbon and climate research Australia’s contribution to global carbon dioxide levels is largely through fossil-fuel emissions related to our ...
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Refocus research onto insects, invertebrates and micro-organisms

Lord Robert May addresses the delegates to the TERN symposium If we are serious about understanding the structure and function of ecosystems, we need to change ...
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TERN in ideal position to lead the world in IUCN assessment of ecosystems

TERN’s success in building networks, collaboration and sharing data could allow TERN to become a world leader in an initiative being established by the  International ...
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