TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network Delivering Ecosystem data for research and management

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Outline

• Introduction to TERN

• TERN Data Publication highlights

TERN purpose1

• National infrastructure for collecting, storing and sharing Australia’s terrestrial ecosystem data sets and knowledge.

• Build and manage data infrastructure to provide public access to terrestrial ecosystem data.

• Facilitate open access to terrestrial ecosystem research data.

• Promote the culture of data sharing and re-use in ecosystem community.

1TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy

Instruments + Sensors

Policy + Management

Analysis + Synthesis

Modelling

Data Searching

Data Sharing

Data Curation + Publishing

Data Storage

Processing + Analysis

Collection Methods

• TERN’s infrastructure for ecosystem science

TERN Challenges

Dealing with Multi-discipline domains and community

– Managing multiple terrestrial scientific domains or disciplines

– Partnership with several institutes, state and federal agencies

– Built on existing infrastructure and large co-contribution

TERN Data Publication Highlights

Over 2400 data collections including: • Publication data close to 100,000 ecological sites

– State government plot networks – 12 long term research networks – 10 ecosystem observatories

• Hourly time-series flux data across Australia – 30 towers from Australia and NZ

TERN Data Publication Highlights

• Over 40 continental scale remote sensing data products – Land cover dynamics and phenology

– Vegetation composition and structure

– Fire dynamics ad impacts

– Airborne data products

• Over 30 continental scale soil and landscape attributes data

• Coastal ecosystem datasets – National seagrass

– Beach observation from 40 sites

– Water quality

• Continental scale data on climate variables at 1 km spatial resolution;

International Partners

TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy

More information

• TERN website: www.tern.org.au

• Discover TERN Data: www.portal.tern.org.au

• Data submission with DOI : www.shared.org.au

• Virtual desktop platform: www.portal.coesra.org.au

Technical enquiries: esupport@tern.org.au

General enquiries: tern@uq.edu.au