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A more accurate carbon budget for Australia

As the world progresses towards a global economy that takes account of carbon, there is an obvious need to improve our understanding of the rates ...
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Elder Mary Kolkiwarra sharing her intimate understanding of the Arnhem Plateau (Photo by Sam Betley-Toon)

Age-old knowledge + contemporary science = healthy continent

Elder Mary Kolkiwarra sharing her intimate understanding of the Arnhem Plateau (Photo by Sam Betley-Toon) Connections between age-old Aboriginal ecological knowledge and contemporary science and technology may ...
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Alan Noble

The acorn and the oak: growing the high-tech nation from a primary interest in science

Alan Noble, the Engineering Director for Google Australia and New Zealand, has many passions, among them sailing and writing web apps for fun, and two ...
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A corner post marks the edge of a plot in a forest
of tall (60m+) karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) in
the Warren region of Western Australia
(Photo by Sam Wood)

Seeing the wood and the trees: measuring climate change in forests

A corner post marks the edge of a plot in a forest of tall (60m+) karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) in the Warren region of Western Australia (Photo by Sam ...
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EucFACE draws international attention

For the residents of Richmond in Sydney’s western suburbs, the peculiar sight of cranes and other structures rising from their local woodland has become normal. ...
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Indigenous know-how on burning savannas to be exported

Fires burn across Kakadu savanna Northern Australian know-how on controlling burning in savannas to minimise the release of carbon to the atmosphere is about to ...
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Engaging with the ecological community

More than 600 of Australia’s ecologists descended on Melbourne for the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) from 3 to 7 December. ...
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Special session on carbon and climate variability at TERN symposium

We’ve just released the first detailed program for the 2013 TERN Symposium. It’s a packed two-day schedule with over 100 presenters from a huge range ...
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TERN delivers many kinds of infrastructure

The problem: diverse, non-collaborative approaches to Australian ecosystem science questions often result in duplication of effort, confusion around conclusions, uncertainty about precision and, ultimately, the ...
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From the ground up: a new way of seeing Australia’s soils

Much of the information and data collected on Australia’s soils is like the soil itself – old, vulnerable and only very good in places. Our ...
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