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Immerse, participate and learn from the experts as they present and discuss the latest ecosystem research, data, and conservation technology.

TERN is proud to host regular webinars which bring our research community together. Our bi-monthly webinar series ‘Ecosystem Observations’ is held on the first Wednesday of every second month and attracts up to 500 participants per session.

 

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Register now for the 4th February 2026

Lifelines in the Desert – the critical role of oases in biodiversity and heritage

From the groundbreaking work of capping bores in the Great Artesian Basin, which has restored pressure to springs and revitalised ecosystems, to the emerging challenges of balancing conservation with Australia’s growing infrastructure demands, TERN’s first webinar for 2026 will navigate the complex territory of protecting these little-known treasures whilst meeting the needs of a developing nation.

Our first speaker is Professor Rod Fensham, more will be added closer to the date.

Date: Wednesday 4 February 2026

Time: 3pm AEST

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Past webinars

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Monitoring Threatened Species

The One Health framework recognises a fundamental truth: human health, animal health, and environmental health are inseparable. Understanding our environment

Agriculture and ecosystems

Dr Ben Macdonald, Prof Peter Grace & Dr Anna Hopkins

Forecasting Ecosystem Changes

How predictable is your life? How predictable is nature? Why do we wonder what tomorrow’s weather will be like? If

Water in our Ecosystems: issues and opportunities

Understanding long-term water impacts on ecosystem biodiversity is fundamental to appreciating the state of Australia’s environment.

Extreme Events – why do we need environmental data?

Until recently, we have considered extreme events as rare, which means there have been few data available to make assessments

Estimating ecosystem respiration from flux tower and chamber data: insights from Cumberland Plain

Recent work using TERN data to explore the temperature response of ecosystem Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) showed that there was

That’s Elementary, My Dear: Satellites that detect environmental change

Have you ever heard the saying It’s hard to see the forest for the trees? Sometimes a little distance is

Climate modelling in Australia – what’s the use? Benefits for human health, society and the environment

Climate models are important tools for improving our understanding and predictability of climate behaviour on seasonal, annual, decadal, and centennial

Resilience in Australia’s ecosystems

Fire, flood, cyclone, disease, climate change …will our ecosystems recover, will they change into something else, what are the thresholds,

The ecological processes that shape Australia’s ecosystems

Ecological processes are inferred through statistical and mechanistic models from measurable patterns in space and time. TERN provides national research

The Australian sea-change phenomenon – an ecosystem monitoring perspective

Speakers: Dr Michelle Heupel, Director, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), University of Tasmania. Dr Elisa Bayraktarov, EcoCommons Program Manager, Griffith

Bioenergy crop fluxes and an a-maize-ing conundrum

In this inaugural OzFlux webinar, Caitlin presents findings from her research in the Midwest region of the USA, while at

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