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🌏️ We're excited to announce Prof Bradley Evans will speak at our June #webinar! A #remotesensing specialist & community contributor to NASA JPL’s Surface Biology & Geology Study, he’s mapping koala habitat in NSW using hyperspectral imaging. Register: buff.ly/YlHBo3T

🌏️ It's World #BiodiversityDay! Today we're highlighting @AusTSX data being added into @ABSStats National Ecosystem Account. Its inclusion embeds standardised, policy‑relevant biodiversity #monitoring in Australia’s environmental‑economic accounting.

📣 Register to attend our 3 June #webinar! Bringing together three speakers to explore the question of how we go about turning fragmented #environmentaldata into a connected, national capability for reporting, operations & stewardship. Register now: buff.ly/h2UEBJo

📡 The FLUXNET Shuttle gives #researchers worldwide seamless, FAIR access to standardised #eddycovariance data from more than 700 sites across six continents, representing a threefold increase on the landmark FLUXNET2015 #dataset. Read the full article: buff.ly/ZzNodsd

🐝Happy #WorldBeeDay! Today we celebrate our buzzing friends who play a crucial role in pollinating plants & maintaining #biodiversity. This year's theme, "Bee together for people and the planet", celebrates the essential role of #pollinators in food systems and ecosystems.

📢 ILTER invites proposals to showcase the network’s collaboration and scientific importance. Projects should deliver a simple, standardised, ecologically meaningful dataset and encourage wide participation across ILTER sites. Learn more: ilter.network/latest/call-fo…

📣 TERN’s Dr Umar Farooq from CSIRO, is taking his modelling of termite gas emissions into the pub on 20 May in Canberra. Umar is working on a national nutrient and #carbon dynamic process model that will include #GHG impacts of #termites. Find out more: pintofscience.com.au/event/tassie-d…

🔍 Discover this #dataset containing maps of total % C3 & C4 plant cover, proportional C3 and C4 #vegetation (relative to combined C3 and C4 cover), and vegetation δ13C isoscape across Australia. 📊: portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/… #DataDiscovery

🏅 TERN wishes to congratulate Sally Thompson on her recent promotion to Professor at UWA, as well as being awarded the 2026 Henry Darcy Medal by the European Geosciences Union for outstanding contributions to ecohydrology! Learn more about Sally's award: egu.eu/awards-medals/…

🍂 #PlantLitter isn’t trash, it’s nature’s treasure. It influences #biodiversity, soil fertility, #carboncycles, wildfire fuel loads, ecosystem hydrology and more. Yet, it remains one of ecology’s most perplexing puzzles. Read the full article: buff.ly/KfhOUPC

📰 Great to see our OzSET team's work in Tasmania picked up by The Mercury. The UQ contingent was the TERN OzSET team, expanding the network to a state that's been a notable gap. Read our article: tern.org.au/news/tracking-… Learn about OzSET: tern.org.au/ozset #NCRISimpact

🌱 Happy #WorldPlantHealthDay! This year’s theme, “Plant biosecurity for food security”, raises the importance of biosecurity. A great case study on TERN's surveillance program is its application by @RBG_Victoria in identifying a new weed. Learn more: tern.org.au/news/australia…

🔍 Discover records from 2019-2020 containing meteorological & #forest inventory data in addition to data on #soil water potential, sapflow measurements & tree hydraulic vulnerability measures from Robson Creek & Cow Bay sites in FNQ. 📊: buff.ly/bSpxI0u #DataDiscovery

📡 TERN Director Dr Beryl Morris gave a keynote at day two of #BioMonWeek2026 on how satellite remote sensing, field monitoring and research site networks can complement each other, and what Europe can learn as it links infrastructures and monitoring efforts.

For this #WildlifeWednesday is the vulnerable Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) which feeds and nests in Australia along the tropical coasts of NT, Qld, and WA. Adult females return to where they were born to lay their eggs! 📷 Nicolas Rakotopare #WildOz

💬 TERN Director Dr Beryl Morris joins a panel tonight for #BioMonWeek2026 (May 6, 10pm AEST) on TERN's insights into integrating satellite, field and research-site monitoring to strengthen biodiversity tracking across programmes. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📏 For the first time, #longterm measurements of #coastalwetland elevation are underway in Tasmania. TERN's OzSET has expanded to Tasmania, with the first RSET-MH sites now established in the Derwent Estuary and Pitt Water Estuary. Read more: buff.ly/D7PTEy0

📰 The latest TERN Director's Update is live! Explore the retirement of Professor Jason Beringer, the installation of Tasmania’s first surface elevation table stations, and more! Read more: buff.ly/PymJtw0 #NCRISimpact #CommunityNews

🌏 Patagonia, a researcher measures a forest's response to rainfall. Tasmania, sensors track carbon in eucalypts. South Korea, scientists follow nitrogen creep through ancient soils. 1000's of kms apart, they share a purpose & network: #ILTER. Read more: buff.ly/PjZdo09

🔍Discover the 2010-11 #dataset from the Warra site in TAS, containing information on #beetle sample & species identification details, the number of individual specimens sampled, the age class of individuals & any relevant comments. 📊: portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/… #DataDiscovery