1. TERN ASN Research Data Portal
http://www.tern-supersites.net.au
Presentation by: Michelle Gane
email: m.gane@qut.edu.au ph: (07) 3138 2466

2. Australian Supersite Network
TERN Supersites
FNQ Rainforest – Qld
 SEQ Peri-urban – Qld
 Great Western Woodland – WA
Warra Tall Eucalypt – Tas
Calperum Mallee – SA

3. Australian Supersite Network
TERN Supersites
FNQ Rainforest – Qld
 SEQ Peri-urban – Qld
 Great Western Woodland – WA
Warra Tall Eucalypt – Tas
Calperum Mallee – SA
Non-TERN Supersites
 Alice Mulga – NT
 Cumberland Plains
EucFACE – NSW

4. Australian Supersite Network
TERN Supersites
FNQ Rainforest – Qld
 SEQ Peri-urban – Qld
 Great Western Woodland – WA
Warra Tall Eucalypt – Tas
Calperum Mallee – SA
Non-TERN Supersites
 Alice Mulga – NT
 Cumberland Plains
EucFACE – NSW
Supersite functionality

5. Driving Science Questions
The key science questions being addressed at all
ASN sites are:
• What are the current stocks and fluxes of energy,
carbon, water and nutrients between the
terrestrial (and aquatic) ecosystem components
and the atmosphere/hydrosphere/geosphere?
• What are the current patterns and
dynamics of terrestrial biodiversity (and aquatic)?

6. Overview
The ASN data portal places
an emphasis on multi-
disciplinary research and
will provide:
• a secure repository of high-intensity, high resolution data
• compatibility with international data systems
• a standard interface for the ecosystem community
to deposit both TERN and contextual data sets.
http://www.tern-supersites.net.au/knb/

7. Underpins key Australian
processes to help biophysical map
unravel how ecosystems products and remote
continuous, function sensing data time-
long-term series, and associated
micrometeorological field calibration and
measurements to validation data at
monitor the state of continental scales
ecosystems globally
Trend analysis across
network of biodiversity
ASN indices
Expected use by
landscape modellers to
Data Portal
help predict future
distribution and
biodiversity ecosystem
models for applications
at scales from landscape
Enables researchers to management to carbon
look at data in the Allows plot and faunal accounting and climate
system and assess the data patterns in prediction
effects of management dynamics to be traced
or disturbance
variability

8. Potential Users and Applications
FNQ DERM; WTMA; Is forest connectivity needed
Rainforest Cairns Regional Council for ecosystem resilience?
SEQ DEEDI; Brisbane City Peri-urban pressure impacts
Peri-urban Council on forest and water
Great Western What areas in GWW should
DEC be the focus of fire protection
Woodlands
Warra Tall Managing native forests to
Forestry Tasmania
Eucalypt ensure capacity to perpetuate
Calperum DENA; Australian Landcare Conservation action. Regional
Mallee Trust monitoring and management
Alice National Groundwater Does depth to groundwater
Mulga Initiative relate to ecosystem function?
Cumberland Plains How does carbon fertilisation
NSW State Government
EucFACE effect eucalypt forests?

9. Status report
• Repository running for 18 months
• Linkage to other data repositories (OzFlux, ACEF)
working on linkages to Auscover and AEKOS
• Implementation of metadata feeds to the TERN portal
• Implementation of metadata harvesting to ANDS
FNQ Rainforest Supersite
- 15 Live Data Packages
SEQ Peri-urban Supersite
- 18 Live Data Packages

10. Monthly usage since September 2011:
Date Total No of Visits No of Unique Download
Visitors Attempts
1 - 23 Mar 2012 82 35 58
1 - 29 Feb 2012 99 36 77
1 - 31 Jan 2012 94 38 48
1 - 31 Dec 2011 35 23 16
1 - 30 Nov 2011 27 17 3
1 - 31 Oct 2011 56 27 38
1 - 30 Sept 2011 82 40 25

11. The Next Steps
• Upload of TERN-EIF data sets from ASN
• Continue to improve usability of portal
including a
new user-friendly interface for users
requesting
access to data
• Allow for future ASN expansion from 5 to 9+
nodes

12. Create a researcher community
• A community engagement program
• Ability to discuss data sets
(using Facebook)
• Coordination with MSPN communications
New challenges
• Management of acoustics data
• High-resolution phenocams (with OzFlux) Acoustic sensor – SERF
• Visualisation of live data streams
• Micro-climate data (with Ozflux)
• Freshwater (with Coastal)
• DOIs for data citations
• Improve the robustness of the platform
• Connecting to DataONE
Phenocam – Cape Trib

13. Post 2014
The major factor influencing the survival of the
ASN data portal is recurrent funding.
Strategy
1) Pursue long-term funding for the portal through
the Queensland State Government.
If successful, approach State Governments of other
Supersites for matching contributions.
2) Future DIISRTE developments
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