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A pleasure watching progress of successful investment: chief scientist

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb AC, welcomes people to the 2013 TERN Symposium Welcome one and all to the 2013 TERN Symposium. It has been ...
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The challenge of open data

If Alan Noble had his way, all publicly funded information, including scientific data, would be released under permissive licencing. Alan, the Engineering Director for Google ...
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Beta of ÆKOS data portal moves rapidly towards production

TERN Eco-informatics met a key milestone last month when it quietly released the first beta (pre-production) version of the data portalof the Australian Ecological Knowledge ...
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People watching green turtle Chelonia mydas returning to the ocean after nesting on the beach, Montebello and Barrow Islands Marine Conservation Reserves, Western Australia

A new port of call for turtle data

A marine biodiversity survey team from Western Australia’s Department of Environment and Conservation with a turtle in the Montebello Archipelago, Western Australia. The National Marine Turtle Database ...
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Ideas and influence: how can scientific knowledge shape policy?

Should science – and scientists – have a greater influence on public policy, specifically environmental policy, in Australia? If so, how might this be achieved? ...
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Your opportunity to help transform Australian ecosystem science: the 2013 TERN Symposium

Australian ecosystem science is changing. At a time when the need for science to help understand and solve ecosystem problems has never been greater, our ...
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A more accurate carbon budget for Australia

As the world progresses towards a global economy that takes account of carbon, there is an obvious need to improve our understanding of the rates ...
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Elder Mary Kolkiwarra sharing her intimate understanding of the Arnhem Plateau (Photo by Sam Betley-Toon)

Age-old knowledge + contemporary science = healthy continent

Elder Mary Kolkiwarra sharing her intimate understanding of the Arnhem Plateau (Photo by Sam Betley-Toon) Connections between age-old Aboriginal ecological knowledge and contemporary science and technology may ...
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The acorn and the oak: growing the high-tech nation from a primary interest in science

Alan Noble, the Engineering Director for Google Australia and New Zealand, has many passions, among them sailing and writing web apps for fun, and two ...
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A corner post marks the edge of a plot in a forest
of tall (60m+) karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) in
the Warren region of Western Australia
(Photo by Sam Wood)

Seeing the wood and the trees: measuring climate change in forests

A corner post marks the edge of a plot in a forest of tall (60m+) karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) in the Warren region of Western Australia (Photo by Sam ...
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