No news is good news at the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Director Beryl Morris reports a review of the network’s governance model found, “nothing was broken,” with the advisory board and science advisory committee “highly regarded.” In part this means the existing arrangement continues, with Uni Queensland being lead agent and signatory to the funding agreement with the feds.

But there will be tweaks, with a new advisory group to “obtain more independent advice from end-users” and finding new members, including a chair, for the science advisory committee.

TERN is part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy. It collects, manages and shares time-series datasets for terrestrial ecosystem research and natural resource management.