TERN and its partners are developing a revolutionary soil moisture information system, which will help land managers better monitor drought, predict bushfires and floods and make highly informed management choices to improve agricultural productivity. Understanding soil moisture matters. […]
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There is an urgent need to understand and predict how the world around us is affected by climate change and the extremes of droughts and flooding rains. The Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy NCRIS addresses this […]
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Australian native plants show that leaf traits can be predicted from the growth environment, but that models should incorporate intra-specific variation. Vegetation models are used to help us understand observed vegetation patterns across the world and the underlying […]
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The height of individual tree crowns near Alice Springs derived from TERN’s airborne lidar collection. The sheer abundance of data on Australia’s natural environment means that the data cannot be easily explored and analysed by non-expert users. To […]
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The inaugural OzFlux-AsiaFlux Conference was held in Darwin this year, hosted by Charles Darwin University’s Research Institute of the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL). The conference (OAFlux18) addressed regionally specific issues associated with ecosystems, climate and land use change […]
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It is our pleasure to announce the inaugural OzFlux – AsiaFlux Joint Conference in Darwin, NT, Australia from the 20 to 26 August, 2018. The conference will address issues of ‘Ecosystems, climate & land-use change across Asia & Australasia‘ and […]
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More than 200 researchers and post-graduate students from 130 sites across 9 countries spanning the Asia-Pacific region from 45S to 70N latitude will get together for one week, in Australia’s northern capital, to collaborate and share scientific knowledge […]
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TERN OzFlux is a national ecosystem research network set up to provide the Australian and global ecosystem modelling communities with nationally consistent observations of energy, carbon and water exchange between the atmosphere and key Australian ecosystems. TERN OzFlux […]
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A National Environmental Observation and Prediction System for the year 2030 The 4th national OzEWEX workshop explored what a future comprehensive National Environmental Prediction system should look like and what observations it will need. The workshop was held […]
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Water—or the lack of it!—is always a topic of interest to Australians, living and working as we do on the driest inhabited continent on Earth. TERN’s integrated ecosystem-observing infrastructure produces open data on multiple phenomena at the same […]
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Vegetation across Australia received much-needed rains in 2016, but this broad positive trend for the environment was marred by severe ecological damage in some regions. That is the punchline of the recently released ‘Australia’s Environment in 2016’ compiled […]
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As Australia swelters through another hot summer, a team of researchers is using TERN data to assess how heat waves affect the energy balance, carbon uptake, water use, and overall health of Australia’s ecosystems. 2017 has kicked off […]
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Australian researchers are using TERN infrastructure to take part in a landmark global experiment that investigates the impact of drought on our ecosystems, and helps to predict and mitigate their continental- and regional-scale impacts. Climate change is predicted […]
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TERN data are being used to improve on estimates of Australia’s annual terrestrial carbon budget, and place Australian scientists and our modelling tools at the forefront of global carbon accounting efforts. As the world progresses towards a global […]
Read moreTERN has released its draft strategic framework to outline what TERN currently does, what impact it has had, key themes, prioritised opportunities for consolidation and expansion (into new areas and capabilities), and its vision for ecosystem science in […]
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The TERN Data Discovery Portal (TDDP) provides a single point of entry for ecosystem data users to search metadata from multiple diverse ecosystem science disciplines, and link through to the open-access datasets for download and re-use. By enabling users to […]
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An impressive compendium of research using TERN’s national flux monitoring infrastructure, TERN OzFlux, has just been released in a special issue of the international journal Biogeosciences. Thus far, five papers have completed peer review and have been published inBiogeosciences. […]
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TERN, together with fellow NCRIS project the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF), have installed time-lapse cameras at TERNSuperSites around Australia to monitor the timing of vegetation development, including flowering, fruiting, and leaf lifecycle—known as phenology. This nation-wide network […]
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The last few months set new records in the rate at which our global climate is changing. It has also been a period of great change in our research and operations environment – some of it good, some of it […]
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