by Ishka Bless | Jun 5, 2023 | News, TERN, University of Adelaide
South Australia’s local environmental heroes will be recognised on World Environment Day on 5 June 2023 through the annual SA Environment Awards. Across six categories, the annual event celebrates and acknowledges our state’s champions working in nature...
by Ishka Bless | Dec 12, 2022 | News, TERN, University of Adelaide
On December 8th 2022, the TERN Australia Soil and Herbarium Collection facility was launched by the National Soils Advocate the Hon. Penny Wensley AC. Coinciding with the launch is news of international recognition from the Index Herbariorum. This global network of...
by Admin | Apr 29, 2021 | News, TERN, University of Adelaide
TERN is excited to announce the launch of a new open-access data product created to support research on plant diversity. As described in the latest edition of Scientific Data, TERN have just released a new dataset that lists the photosynthetic pathway of every...
by Keryn | Oct 30, 2020 | Historic Precinct, News, TERN
We thank the botanists at Australia’s regional, state and national herbaria for their expertise, ensuring TERN’s open data related to flora have been verified and can be trusted by researchers. Join our field botanists at one of the first TERN monitoring sites...
by Keryn | Oct 2, 2020 | News, Research stories, TERN, University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide scientists will investigate post-fire recovery rates and ecosystem resilience of Kangaroo Island’s bushfire affected areas, when they return to the island for fieldwork this month. Republished from the TERN blog A team of ecologists from The...
by Keryn | Jul 30, 2020 | News, Research stories, TERN
A new paper has critically reviewed the main types of environmental monitoring and recommended the widespread adoption of three classifications to provide consistency and clarity. The scheme allows scientists and land managers to design programs suited to their needs...
by Keryn | Jul 29, 2020 | News, Research stories, TERN
Creative desktop methods for plot-based monitoring of Australia’s ecosystems—the next best thing to fieldwork in a time when fieldwork is not the best thing. Republished from the TERN blog Having started the year with the establishment of 15 new permanent monitoring...
by Keryn | Jun 12, 2020 | News, Research stories, TERN, University of Adelaide
Wild Orchid Watch (WOW) is a national citizen science project collecting photos and detailed habitat and environmental information about Australian native orchids. The WOW app is now available for use by scientists, citizen scientists and orchid enthusiasts! WOW is a...
by Keryn | May 20, 2020 | News, TERN
The grand challenges facing our environment requires analysis of big data. To help students access and learn more about the data collected by Australia’s Land Ecosystem Observatory, TERN has released a selection of its data for use by senior high school students....
by Keryn | May 15, 2020 | News, Research stories, TERN
Systematic TERN monitoring in a national biodiversity hotspot has allowed identification of an exotic species of grass that nobody had seen for nearly 180 years. TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) is Australia’s national land ecosystem observatory. It...
