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Centre Spotlight: Environmental Futures Research Institute
In March we’re featuring Griffith University’s Environmental Futures Research Institute and research that’s developing solutions to facilitate clean, resilient and sustainable futures, and improved health ...
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Cosmic help for down-to-Earth environmental monitoring
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 ...
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Liveability for all on our urban fringes
NCRIS-enabled projects AURIN and TERN are delivering data and analysis tools to support research and planning for more sustainable urban environments. Explore the free urban ...
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Ghost Trees
A unique art exhibition was held in February 2020 that explored the creative possibilities of Big Data on the environment. Ghost Trees uses environmental laser ...
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Centre Spotlight: Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics
This edition we’re featuring the Australian National University’s Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics and their work combining satellite observations, field data and prediction models ...
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Safeguarding national research infrastructure from extreme events
How can environmental research infrastructure providers, including TERN and its field-based NCRIS siblings, limit the damage extreme events have on sensors and other globally important ...
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Weighing the cost: the impact of heatwaves on birds
Models predict more frequent catastrophic mortality events for Australia’s arid zone birds under future climate scenarios. Innovative new science using TERN’s research data archive has, ...
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Prototype paves way for near-instantaneous maps of vegetation productivity and stress
TERN is testing prototype plant fluorescence sensors at its NCRIS-enabled ecosystem monitoring sites. Early results indicate that accurate Australia-wide hourly data on environmental stress, such ...
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Centre Spotlight: Institute for Land, Water and Society
Formed in 2005, the Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS) combines research strengths in biophysical, social and economic fields and has well-established partnerships with state and ...
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A tour of TERN’s Snowy Mountains research SuperSite
In December 2019, government agencies and international science organisations joined local community members for a guided tour of TERN’s Tumbarumba SuperSite—one of the world's most ...
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