Sharing & Sustaining Ecosystem Data

Professors Stuart Phinn and Andrew Lowe TERN - Associate Science Directors

TERN Office: T. Clancy, A. Specht., E. Cuffe, C. Lange, B. Morris, M. Widdowson, Y. Li., S. Guru, S.Long, R, Christensen and P. Runting

International Partners

TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Super Science Initiative

Presentation Aims

To demonstrate how TERN is used to enable:

- improved use and re-use of data;

- improved collaboration to address key questions;

- greater collective influence on ecosystem science and management in Australia.

Presentation Outline

1. Introduction –data sharing and increasing knowledge!

2. How does TERN work?

3. Science application examples from TERN

4. Where to from here….open data, papers, etc….?

Presentation Outline

1. Introduction –data sharing and increasing knowledge!

2. How does TERN work?

3. Science application examples from TERN

4. Where to from here….open data, papers, etc….?

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

• The Research data lifecycle ?:

Ecosystem Science

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

Ecosystem Science

TERN Data Portal +License + Identifier

Research Question

Proposal and Funding

Researcher(s) and Data Collection

Data Sets + Meta-data

Data Processing, Analysis, Integration and Synthesis.

Research Output

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

• Provide resources for data: collection, storage, search and sharing

• Data are checked and able to be (re-)used

• Demonstrate return on research investment for agencies and researchers

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

• Enable a change in data collection and research practices in Australia

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

• Enable a change in data collection and research practices in Australia

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

• Enable a change in data collection and research practices in Australia

Main recommendations:

•Collect more data on Australia’s ecosystems and make it freely available

• Engage the community in data collection

• Develop methods to determine the consequences of ecosystem decisions and make these accessible to all stakeholders

•Involve all stakeholders in ecosystem planning and decision making

Source: http://www.science.org.au/events/thinktank/thinktank2011/index.html

Data sharing and increasing knowledge

• Enable a change in data collection and research practices in Australia

Presentation Outline

1. Introduction –data sharing and increasing knowledge!

2. How does TERN work?

3. Science application examples from TERN

4. Where to from here….open data, papers, etc….?

Source: NASA and Chuvieco and Huete(2009): Fundamentals of satellite remote sensing. Taylor and Francis

How does TERN work : Environments covered

How does TERN work : Links to other data collections

Fundamental infrastructure for collecting, storing and sharing data sets and knowledge for Australian ecosystems.

Builds on past and current data collection activities across all levels of government, research organisations, universities, private companies and non-government organisations.

How does TERN work : Infrastructure?

How does TERN work : Data collection and storage

How does TERN work : the concept…….

Data Sets

Meta-data - 1

Data Portal

Use Licence

Identifier - DOI

• The Research data licencing:

How does TERN work : Linking data portals

How does TERN work : the concept…….

TERN Data Discovery Portal

Meta-data from all Data Portals

Data Sets

Meta-data - 1

Data Portal

Use Licence

Identifier - DOI

Data Sets

Meta-data - 2

Data Portal

Use Licence

Identifier - DOI

Data Sets

Meta-data - 1

Data Portal

Use Licence

Identifier - DOI

How does TERN work : Multi-Scale Plot Network

How does TERN work : Supersites

How does TERN work : Supersites

CSIRO Rainforest plots: M. Bradford.

TERN Supersite: Robson Creek 25ha plot

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)

Single 25ha (500m x 500m) plot in selectively logged upland rainforest.

Last logged in 1970

Trees >10 cm diameter identified, mapped, and measured for height & DBH

TERN Supersite: Robson Creek 25ha plot

TERN Supersite: Robson Creek 25ha plot

How does TERN work : Supersite Portal

How does TERN work : Supersite Portal

TERN Data Portals – Remote Sensing

TERN Data Portals – Energy + Gas Fluxes

TERN Data Portals – Coastal Data

Bladder Saltbush Atriplex vesicaria

TERN Data Portals – Ecological Survey Data

TERN Data Portals – Integrated and Synthesised Data

Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network:

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Presentation Outline

1. Introduction –data sharing and increasing knowledge!

2. How does TERN work?

3. Science application examples from TERN

4. Where to from here….open data, papers, etc….?

• TERN delivers fundamental research infrastructure:

A multidisciplinary, networked, national approach for

Carbon accounting and dynamics

Improved field measurements techniques and cover across all ecosystems

More accurate satellite image maps of biomass and primary production

Integrated field, satellite image and modelling process to quantify Carbon dynamics for current and future scenarios

Total Net Primary Productivity

Long-term continental water balance properties and Carbon balance using BIOS2, constrained by data including OzFlux data

Source: Beringer, Hacker, Hutley, Arndt, Amiri, Bannehr, Cernusak, Grover, Hensley, Hocking, Isaac, Jamali, Kanniah, Leuning, Livesley, Neininger, Paw U, Sea, Stratten, Tapper, Weinmann, Wood, Zegelin (2011) SPECIAL – Savanna Patterns of Energy and Carbon Integrated Across the Landscape, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol 92, 1467-1485.

Transpiration

Soil Evaporation

• TERN delivers infrastructure for research and management:

Continental scale monitoring of ecosystem and biodiversity stocks and changes for improved understanding and decisions

Integrating approaches along a continental transect to determine rate of change and turn-over in ecosystems.

Baseline monitoring of ecosystem disturbance and change drivers.

Tropical Savanna

Eucalypt Open Woodland

Mulga Shrubland

Tall Eucalypt Forest

Tussock Grassland

Acacia Shrubland

Spinifex Hummock Grassland

Chenopod Shrubland

Rain Forest

Mallee

Combining field, satellite, nutrient cycling and biodiversity data for understanding change and improved management.

• TERN delivers human infrastructure for integrating ideas:

Synthesizing understanding of major drivers, threats and new ways to manage Australian ecosystems

Network of infrastructure to support scientists and policy makers to better understand drivers, rate of change and improved management of ecosystems: • Extinctions • Fire • Biogeography of continent • Invasives • Climate change • Landscape transformation • Ecosystem adaptation • Integration for national data sets • International standards for data

Murphy BP, Bradstock RA, Boer MM, Carter J, Cary GJ,

Cochrane MA, Fensham RJ, Russell-Smith J, Williamson

GJ & Bowman DMJS (2012) Fire regimes of

Australia, a pyrogeographic model system.

Journal of Biogeography, In review March 2012.

Presentation Outline

1. Introduction –data sharing and increasing knowledge!

2. How does TERN work?

3. Science application examples from TERN

4. Where to from here….open data, papers, etc….?

Where to from here – Data publishing?

• Existing data storage, publishing and sharing options?

Where to from here – Data publishing?

• Existing data storage, publishing and sharing options?

Where to from here – Data publishing?

• Existing data storage, publishing and sharing options?

Where to from here – Data publishing?

• Existing data storage, publishing and sharing options?

Where to from here – Data publishing?

• Existing data storage, publishing and sharing options?

Where to from here – Data publishing?

• Existing data storage, publishing and sharing options?

Current investments and research infrastructure

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13%

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2% 1%

TOTAL TERN Government Funding 2009-2014 $49.73 million

TERN Office

TERN Portal

ACEAS

Auscover

Ozflux

Ecoinformatics

Supersite Demonstrators (FNQ x 2, SEQ x 3)

Long Term Australian Multi-Scale Plot System

Ausplots

Long Term Ecosystem Research Plot Network

Supersites

Scaling and Modelling

Soils and Landscape

ACEF

TERN Coordination

• Enable a change in data collection and research practices in Australia

• Data sharing infrastructure as part of national research fabric

• To become the standard for all ecosystem research data collection, storage and sharing .

• The “integration” facility for ecosystem data.

• Adoption within local to state and national governments.

• Basis for open data and cite-able data for ecosystem research in Australia.

• Requires long-term commitments from state and federal governments, universities and research organisations.

TERN’s Future

• Data management plans

• Data storage, curation and metadata for you and your group

• Knowledge generation and sharing

• Collaborations

• Act and express our needs collectively

Your Data, Research Projects and Proposals

Questions?

www.tern.org.au and tern@uq.edu.au

TERN/Science Stuart Phinn s.phinn@uq.edu.au

TERN Director Tim Clancy t.clancy@uq.edu.au

TERN Portals Siddeswara Guru s.guru@uq.edu.au

ACEAS Alison Specht a.specht@uq.edu.au

Comms/Knowledge Suzanne Long Bek Christensen

s.long5@uq.edu.au r.christensen1@uq.edu.au