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Australia’s higher education industry needs TERN

Australia’s universities together have an enrolment of more than one million students, and employ more than 100,000 staff. University expenditure accounts for 1.6 per cent ...
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Fostering collaboration between governments

Due to Commonwealth investment in TERN, for the first time in the history of Australian ecosystem science, infrastructure exists that enables ecosystem scientists to collaborate and ...
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Direct Action needs TERN collaboration

The good news about this month’s Direct Action white paper is that much of the infrastructure required to deliver and measure the effectiveness of this ...
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Robert George Lesslie

  25 February 1957 – 28 March 2014     Robert G Lesslie (Rob), 57, a leading Australian geographer and ecologist, died peacefully on Friday ...
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NCRIS multiplies power of research

Imagine if each soil type had a barcode. You could scan the soil in your backyard and find out why the leaves on your lemon ...
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Improving the success of investment in northern Australia through better soil information

TERN’s Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia undertaking soil sampling in northern Queensland (photo courtesy of Rebecca Bartley) How can private, industry and government investment in northern Australia ...
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Long-term research key to sustainable land management in northern Australia

Illustrations of fire severity index classes where: (A) Class 1, patchy (low severity); (B) Class 1 (low severity); (C) Class 2 (moderate severity); (D) Class ...
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Modelling savanna change in the Northern Territory

TERN’s Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Infrastructure (eMAST) is supporting ecosystem research in northern Australia through its engagement in a number of landmark carbon and water ...
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Ecological data services for high quality, well described data

Australian Ecological Knowledge and Observation System (ӔKOS V1.1.0) map of site data holdings in northern Australia as of February 2014, data from the Northern Territory ...
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Survey teams head north to sample key ecosystems

TERN’s AusPlots survey team, more used to the arid deserts of central Australia and the tall eucalypt forests of the south, is shifting its focus ...
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