Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

01/09/2026

📰 TERN's latest Director’s Update is out now.

Find out about our new skills-based Advisory Board, TERN's Strategic Planning workshop, the recent meeting of the Integrated Earth group, and more.

Read the full update: https://buff.ly/C3KepTM

31/08/2026

🌼💛 Happy National Wattle Day!

Today is Australia's annual reminder that Spring has sprung, and that yellow is, in fact, a personality trait.

This national day commemorates the first offical day of Spring in Australia by recognising Australia’s national floral emblem.

The Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) is a symbol of unity and resilience in the face of harsh conditions including droughts, wind, and bushfires.

28/08/2026

🔍 Discover this dataset comprising spatially and temporally dynamic estimates of the monthly latent heat flux and sensible heat flux for all of Australia. Managing and understanding water resources requires data on latent heat flux dynamics across climatic zones at scales from regions to continents in both space and time.

Having spatially and temporally dynamic estimates of latent heat flux and sensible heat flux for all of Australia, means this data source can be used to model the water and energy dynamics of any ecosystem, catchment, or land management unit in Australia.

Access this dataset on the TERN Data Discovery Portal: https://buff.ly/rkxUoyR

26/08/2026

🧑‍🏫 TERN’s Education and Training Manager, Dr Eleanor Velasquez, recently attended the Australian Science Teachers Association’s (ASTA) national conference where she joined science teachers from across the country to connect, exchange ideas, and hear the latest approaches to educating and inspiring students.

Here, Eleanor shares her experience and tells us about the TERN-supported workshop she presented, offering teachers and students an opportunity to meaningfully engage in real-world ecosystem research.

Read the full article: https://buff.ly/8tGXRZC

24/08/2026

📱 In our recent webinar — Who gets to tell the story? The challenges and opportunities for ensuring the science gets heard — science blogger/content creator Dr Kylie Soanes explains how she makes complex topics relatable to her audience.

Watch the full webinar here: https://buff.ly/obdB0qI

21/08/2026

🔓️🌏️ NCRIS is helping unlock new insights into the Earth's Critical Zone—the foundation of life on our planet.

Professor David Chittleborough, Adelaide University and University of the Sunshine Coast, is working with collaborators across Australia to build the Australian Critical Zone Observatory Network, improving our understanding of how carbon, water, nutrients and energy move through the dynamic, life-sustaining, near-surface environment extending from the vegetation canopy down to unweathered bedrock. NCRIS-funded Providers Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network and AuScope are supporting this work by combining long-term and innovative above and below-ground monitoring systems to better understand how this critical zone is responding to a warming climate.

The Australian Government Department of Education’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program is a $4 billion program that provides Australian researchers with access to the tools, equipment, data, and services they use for their world-class research.

NCRIS: Celebrating 20 Years of Research Support and Innovation

19/08/2026

🗻 As snow, wind and ice transform Australia’s alpine landscapes, researchers at the Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF) brave some of the country’s harshest winter conditions to uncover how these unique ecosystems function and respond to change.

From battling blizzards and equipment failures to collecting critical year-round data, their work is revealing the hidden processes that shape the health of the high country.

Read the full article: https://buff.ly/N1Eblda

17/08/2026

🧰 Join TERN for a hands-on workshop at The University of Queensland's Research and Innovation Week on 18 September 2026.

We’ll introduce TERN’s data, infrastructure, tools and services, highlighting systematic surveys, carbon flux records, remote sensing and model-derived products, while showing how to navigate TERN repositories.

Through presentations and live demos you’ll learn to conduct data-driven research and publish datasets in line with FAIR and CARE principles.

Register here: https://buff.ly/d2GqZWu

13/08/2026

🌱 The National Earth and Environment Scientific Facilities Forum is meeting in Adelaide and took in visits to the SA Drill Core Library, TERN's National Soil and Herbarium Collection and APPN's plant accelerator facility.

The seamlessness of NCRIS was made obvious by how each of those faciluties included digital scanning and characterisation, standard protocols, big data and so on. Whether minerals, ecosystems or agricultural plants, the message is clear - the world is full of endless variety but in NCRIS we use common approaches to tell the story of an Integrated Earth.

12/08/2026

✍️ Registrations are open to attend Australia’s premier land conservation gathering, the 2026 ALCA Conference (ALCA26).

📅 6 – 9 October 2026

ALCA26 will unite over 400 delegates across conservation changemakers, First Nations land managers, policymakers, researchers, industry and community to forge the partnerships, ideas and actions driving nature-positive outcomes.

Register: https://www.alca.org.au/events/conference/2026/register

Register for the ALCA Conference 2026 and join Australia's leading land conservation community for critical conversations and nature action.