🎉 As #NCRIS marks its 20th anniversary, the experience of Australia’s national #researchinfrastructure program offers an important lesson for environmental research worldwide: meaningful evidence of environmental change depends on long-term #investment. Read more: buff.ly/kFcS1xJ

🚨 Last chance to register for our August #webinar! 📅 5 August 2026, 3pm AEST We bring together #science and nature communicators to help #environmental practitioners build skills and connections to share stories about Australia's ecosystems, biodiversity and climate. Register: buff.ly/ZXiBNCA

📰 Our latest Director’s Update is live. Explore how 20 years of #NCRIS investment have enabled TERN to build a skilled national #workforce, how we're working with Australian #teachers to inspire the next generation of ecologists, and more. Read more: buff.ly/Lxxn9fJ

👩‍🌾 Register now to attend the UWA Farm Ridgefield 2026 Open Day and see #research innovation in action! Friday, 11 September 2026. Hosted by the @ioauwa.bsky.social, see in-field research demos from the UWA's Best Practice #Farming Systems Project. Register here: buff.ly/snc7UrP

📝 We're happy to share that Jonathan Webb will be speaking at our August #webinar on #science communication! He's the Science Editor at ABC Radio National, leading an award-winning team across radio, podcasts, digital and social. Register now: buff.ly/eDgS7mh

📡 Early computers filled rooms, consumed huge power and needed specialist crews. Today your wristwatch has more processing power than they did. That shift is happening with an #environmentalscience tool, timed for Australia’s #farmers and #climate future. Read more: buff.ly/BvQVcvT

📝 We're pleased to share Erin Farley will be speaking at our August #webinar! Erin is the Director of the Nature Media Centre with 20+ years of experience in #conservation advocacy and strategic #environmental messaging. Register now: buff.ly/9hzBP7h

📸 We've just published an article in @aunz.theconversation.com on the value of #citizenscience projects. Citizen scientists are making a real difference by contributing #data that supports TERN capabilities like Ecosystem Surveillance and @aus-tsx.bsky.social. Check it out! ⬇️

How retirees, beachcombers and communities help scientists track everything from threatened species to algal blooms

Scientists and authorities are increasingly calling for help from citizen scientists to track species and changes.

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📝 We're pleased to share @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social will be a speaker at our August #webinar! A skilled #science communicator, Kylie shares her passion for nature #conservation via The Conversation, The Guardian, ABC Radio National, public talks and her research blog. Register now: buff.ly/0aNbKsX

Up next for #WildlifeWednesday is one of the species included in the Threatened Species Index (TSX): the Fleay's Frog (Mixophyes fleayi). This endangered frog is found in south-east Qld and north-east NSW, and grows up to 9 cm! 📷 Geoff Heard TSX visualiser tool: tsx.org.au/tsx2025 #WildOz

🌱 #Soils are dynamic, living systems vital to Earth's processes, yet still not fully understood. TERN's Soil & Herbarium Collection is contributing to important research addressing real-world problems in #climatescience, earth observation, #conservation & sustainability. Read more: buff.ly/KFBYYYq

📣 Register for TERN's August #webinar, 'Who gets to tell the story? The challenges and opportunities for ensuring the science gets heard'. 📅 5 August 2026 Our three guest speakers will unpack the incentives, biases, and trade-offs behind nature #communication in 2026. 📝: buff.ly/rKgi9ZD

🔥 The Global Grassy Group is a consortium of #ecologists and biologists standardising vegetation sampling in grassy biomes. By sharing methods it ensures comparable #datasets and highlights local partnerships and long-term monitoring that support international #research. Read more: buff.ly/mQzVsZC

📣 There's still time to register to attend #ISE2026 in Cairns! ISE invites #academics, activists, practitioners, and visionaries to explore the theme of “Indigenous and Local Knowledge Connections: Honouring Heritage and Innovation”. 📅 26–29 July, 2026 Register: isecongress2026.org/registration/

🔍 Discover the Management Event Data for the ALTAR site South Eastern Queensland 1. It offers a spatiotemporal summary of key land-management events. ALTAR investigates how managed systems can balance productivity and environmental resilience. 📊 portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TER...

👏 Wonderful to hear Dr Aiden Price talking about NCRIS-supported capabilities being an essential part in his research work, and for mentioning TERN in particular, for supporting the development of the AusEnHealth platform! #NCRIS20 #NCRISimpact #EnvironmentalHealth

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Dr Aiden Price (QUT Centre for Data Science) shares how AusEnHealth and AusUrb-HI bring together environmental, urban, and population health data to support better decisions for planning, health, and emergency services. bit.ly/4h2tLhF #NCRISImpact #NCRIS20

🌊 With Australia having the third largest area of #mangroves globally, it was great to be represented at the 7th Mangrove, Macrobenthos and Management Conference in Okinawa, Japan by TERN's Dr Madeline Goddard, talking about our #sealevel inundation #monitoring network, OzSET.

🌤️ A new suite of #dataproducts developed by CSIRO and TERN is available. Derived from geostationary Himawari-8/9 #satellite data, they provide continent-wide insights on total #solar radiation and cloud characteristics at ten-minute intervals. Read more: buff.ly/ZLWZvwf

📡 As a member of GERI, we’re highlighting fellow-member @icos-ri.eu new paper that reduces uncertainty in #GHG measurements, and shows #standardised global #observations cut that uncertainty, helping resolve long-standing scientific questions. Read more: geri-globalecosystemri.org/news/new-stu...

📰 TERN’s June newsletter is out now! Read about: #satellite products for tracking and forecasting solar irradiance, TERN + Global Grassy Group on fire’s role in tropical #ecosystems, TERN’s #soil collections, and more. Check it out: buff.ly/HzjVbZS

📰 TERN's latest Director’s Update is out now. Explore TERN's outcomes for NDRI #funding and the NCRIS capability-gap process, our major "AgPathways" proposal to establish nationally consistent #AgMonitoring systems, and more. Read more: www.tern.org.au/news/directo... #NCRISimpact

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Director's Update - June 2026. Click here to learn more.

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🎉 We’re celebrating NCRIS’ 20th anniversary nationwide with our Research Infrastructure teams! We also received a video message from Anne-Marie Lansdown, an original NCRIS architect, on how it provides infrastructure, expertise and national capability to enable impactful research. #NCRIS20 #Brisbane

✨ NCRIS: Celebrating 20 Years of Research Support and Innovation We were delighted to see such a huge turn out of government and industry leaders coming to celebrate NCRIS' 20th anniversary at Parliament House, last night. Here's to another 20 years of world-class national research! #NCRIS20

📝 #CallforProposals now open for the 2027 ILTER Open Science Meeting. The theme "Unity in Diversity" highlights site-based #research, global #data comparison & trend detection. Submit proposals for papers, sessions, working groups & training. Find out more: www.ilter.network/latest/events

🎉 Congrats to UWA Centre for Water and Spatial Science on its 3‑year Seminar & Networking Event, and to Prof. Sally Thompson for receiving EGU's Henry Darcy Medal for hydrology. The research breadth was outstanding; TERN proudly participated and learned how widely its data and sites are used.

🐜 #Termites are perhaps the world's most consequential herbivores. With TERN’s support, researchers at CSIRO are developing a novel modelling framework that integrates termite activity to better represent nutrient, #carbon and methane dynamics in terrestrial #ecosystems. Read more: buff.ly/JhRxiB9

🤝 TERN joined a global initiative studying #fireimpacts in tropical savannas. By sharing #methods & expertise, we ensured TERN & Global Grassy Group #datasets are comparable, showing the value of partnerships & long-term monitoring for international research. Read more: buff.ly/TYGuRlX

Call for Proposals now open for the ILTER Open Science Meeting 2027! March 8-12, 2027, Bariloche, Argentina Proposal types include sessions, working groups, and training activities. Deadline: August 15, 2026 Check ILTER website for details and submission information www.ilter.network/latest/events

🌳 Happy #WorldRainforestDay! #DYK this pair of Osprey have made a nest on the @jcu_dro Canopy crane for the past 15 years? This wholesome sight happens in the Daintree Rainforest, which we know a lot about, as JCU & TERN have been monitoring this rainforest since 2010. See the data: buff.ly/ZKKikhS

🔍 Discover the TERN EcoImages portal! EcoImages provides access to all images collected at TERN survey sites across Australia. You can find images related to #Phenocameras, Photopoints, Flora, #Fauna, and more. Check it out at ecoimages.tern.org.au #datadiscovery