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The Symposium presentations are clustered here broadly according to presentation order. On the first day initial scene-setting was provided by Ms Julia Evans and Prof. Stuart Phinn; challenging ideas for TERN were presented by the two keynote speakers; each of the TERN Facilities presented their status to date; and the Australian infrastructure context was presented by three key NCRIS project leaders. On the second day after presentation for critical review of their developing portals by several of the TERN facilities, we were engaged by presentations that discussed the activity of several non-government and community organizations in our ecosystem science and management landscape and we reflected on their potential relationship to TERN.
| Tuesday 29 March 2011 |
| Official Opening – Ms Julia Evans, General Manager, Research Infrastructure and Science Policy Branch, Science Infrastructure Division, Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. |
| TERN Principles and Strategic Plan – Prof. Stuart Phinn, TERN Scientific Director |
| Keynote Speaker #1 – Data Intensive Challenges in Biodiversity Conservation: a multi-scale approach to estimating species distributions – Dr Steve Kelling, Director of Information Science, Cornell University Lab of Ornithology |
| Introducing and Engaging with TERN’s Facilities – Data Collection and Sharing
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| Keynote Speaker #2 – Innovations in Environment Research, Monitoring and Governance – Prof. Bill Denison, Vice President for Science Application and Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science |
| Introducing and Engaging with TERN’s Facilities – Data Analysis and Synthesis
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| Linking NCRIS Projects:
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| Wednesday 30 March 2011 |
| TERN Facility Portals (Prof. Stuart Phinn) – What are they? How do they work? How will they acquire, store and share data for the ecosystem science community, and management principles.
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We asked representatives (not exhaustive or exclusive) of Non-Government Organisations, Citizen Science and Indigenous Land Management groups to think around the following questions:
- what are the key things your group contributes in terms of data and/or monitoring to our knowledge of our national environment (and you could list a lot I know),
- what you need most to make you more effective,
- what you think TERN might be able to do to help you, and how you might help TERN in its goals.
| Sustaining a Long-Term Ecosystem Research Network (LTER) for Australia
Principles, collaboration, funding amounts, funding sources and governance |
via Citizen Science (Dr Graeme Hamilton, Birds Australia; Dr Richard Gilmore, Earthwatch Institute; Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, FungiMap)
Where does this fit in our national accounts? How are we incorporating these data? What is its potential role in research, and can we support it better? |
The Role of NGOs (Dr Jim Radford, Bush Heritage Australia; Prof. Max Finlayson, Charles Sturt Uni)
A significant land area of Australia is now managed by NGOs. How is their science and monitoring incorporated into the national picture? Are they part of the national dialogue? Can we do this better? |
Indigenous Land Management (Dr Emilie-Jane Ens, ANU; Mr David Robertson, SEWPaC; Mr Dean Yibbarbuk, ARPNet)
More and more land is being managed by indigenous groups for biodiversity conservation. This formed a major session as the ESA conference in December 2010. How is this supported? How is this monitored? How widespread is it? Can this be facilitated better? Where are the gaps and can TERN help fill them? |
| Moving forward to sharing ecosystem data and sustaining long-term ecosystem research – Prof. Stuart Phinn, TERN Scientific Director |
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