📹 If you missed our May #webinar on 'Australia's Coastal ecosystems: How are we monitoring them?', the recording is now available to watch and share on our website!

🔗 tern.org.au/webinars

📡 The installation of the new #fluxtower at our Wombat Stringybark Eucalypt SuperSite has officially been completed! Located in the Wombat State Forest near Ballarat, the original 35m tall flux tower installed in 2010, blew down during heavy storms in 2021.
(Pic: Dr Markus Loew)

Next up for #WildlifeWednesday is the endangered Duck's-head Wasp-orchid (Chiloglottis anaticeps), found only in montane forests in northern NSW. Male thynnine wasps pollinate this orchid when they are deceived into thinking it is a female wasp to mate with! Pic: Gavin Phillips.

🍂National vegetation condition fell 7% compared to the previous year but remained above the 2000–2022 average for a third year, by 3%. Vegetation growth rates are estimated from a combination of weather & satellite data.

Read the full #ausenv2023 report: ausenv.tern.org.au

👏 A massive thank you to our guest speakers Ruth Reef 🌊, Madeline Goddard and Tim Rawling for their time and expert insights at our #webinar , yesterday.
Missed it or want to share this with someone? The recording of this webinar will be available soon on our website.

📢Don't forget watch our webinar today on how we monitor Australia's coastal ecosystems! Our speakers have an amazing breadth of experience to share, drawn from their own monitoring strategies along Australia’s coasts and those of regional neighbours.

✍️: uqz.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🏖 Tim Rawling is the CEO of AuScope, Australia’s provider of research infrastructure to the national geoscience community working on fundamental geoscience questions and grand challenges.

Register for our #webinar : uqz.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🔍 #DataDiscovery | TERN SHaRED
Our data submission tool, allows ecosystem scientists to easily upload datasets into TERN’s common & secure data repository where they can be retrieved by others to create new science, new knowledge & educational tools.

📊: tern.org.au/shared/

🏖 Madeline Goddard is a coastal scientist and PhD candidate with a research focus on blue carbon and mangrove responses to sea level rise in northern Australia.

Register for our next #webinar : uqz.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Great to have the opportunity and experience at #EGU24 🤠
∆Looking forward to collaborate with anyone interested in #biogeoscience Biogeosciences or passionated researchers in #remotesensing and #deeplearning techniques to improve classification problems + big data

🏖 Ruth Reef is the first guest speaker for our upcoming #webinar . Ruth is head of the Coastal Research Group at the School of Earth, Atmosphere, & Environment and a leading authority on Australia's #coastalecosystems .

Register now: uqz.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

For this week’s #WildlifeWednesday : the Kangaroo Island Dunnart (Sminthopsis fuliginosa aitkeni). Currently listed as endangered under the EPBC Act, this carnivorous marsupial was severely affected by the 2019/2020 fires, which burned most of its habitat. Pic: Brad Leue/AWC.

Save the date for our upcoming TERN #webinar , 'Australia's Coastal ecosystems: How are we monitoring them?'.

📅 Wednesday 1 May, 2024
⏰ 3pm (AEST)

Registrations will be opening soon!

👥 National Environment Indicators at a glance - Population
Australia’s population grew by 3.5% (650,000+) to reach 27 million people by the end of 2023, a 41% increase since 2000.

Read the #ausenv2023 report to find out more: ausenv.tern.org.au

We are proud to be involved and support the soil eDNA metagenomics work for TERN resolving microbial diversity, reference sequence collection and biodiversity monitoring assessment.

#AGRF #Genomics #partnership #eDNA #Metagenomics #MicrobialDiversity #Biodiversity

🔍 #DataDiscovery | Fletcherview Tropical Rangelands Soil eDNA Dataset
This dataset contains soil microbial & genomic analysis of 9 soil samples from each of 3 plots at the Fletcherview SuperSite processed by AGRF.

📊: portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/…

🧊 The limits of ice: what a 19th century expedition trapped in sea ice for a year tells us about Antarctica’s future — a cracking story by Ed Doddridge, Annie Foppert and Stuart Corney with IMAS Australian Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-NRI) and TERN via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
theconversation.com/the-limits-of-…

🌊 #DYK ocean surface temperatures were above average everywhere around Australia, but below the record temperatures observed in 2022. The mean sea surface temperature was 0.09 °C above the 2000–2022 average.

Read the #ausenv2023 report to find out more: ausenv.tern.org.au

🔍 #DataDiscovery | TERN EcoPlots
EcoPlots is a platform that harmonises plot-based #ecology data from diverse sources. It enables seamless, integrated search and access to ecological data across different jurisdictions, data sources and more.

📊: ecoplots.tern.org.au

🌏National Environment Indicators at a glance - Ozone hole
The #Ozone hole extent was 2% smaller than 2022 but 5% larger than the 2000–2021 average. The Ozone hole has not shrunk in the last 20 years but may have stabilised.

Read the #ausenv2023 report: ausenv.tern.org.au