CDU event
TERN it up
| Presenter | Prof. Lindsay Hutley | |
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| Contact person | E: riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au | |
| Location | CDU Casuarina Campus Yellow 1.1.39 and online | |
| Open to | Public | |
The seminar is the second in a series on TERN and follows Dr Donna Lewis’s seminar last month on TERN Ecosystem Surveillance. This talk will focus on the TERN Ecosystem Processes (EP) facility, its goals, approaches and progress in delivering monitoring data on Australian ecosystems.
TERN EP is primarily tasked with managing infrastructure that provide data to quantify responses and resilience of Australian ecosystems to climate change, disturbance and land management. These data enable the assessment of fundamental processes controlling carbon and water budgets through to impacts on biodiversity. TERN EP works in conjunction with the Ecosystem Surveillance, Landscapes (remote sensing) and Data Services to develop tools for integration across scales and for upscaling site-level measurements.
RIEL currently manages 5 TERN EP sites across the north-south rainfall gradient in the NT, all in collaboration with the University of Western Australia. From this we have been investigating savanna carbon source-sink dynamics, impacts of fire, and water use efficiencies. What can we learn from long-term (20 years) measures of mass and energy exchange and local climate. Is this long enough to detect systematic change, and is there a response to climate change already?
Lindsay Hutley is a plant physiologist with expertise in plant ecology, ecophysiology, ecohydrology, land-atmosphere exchange and soil science. Lindsay completed his PhD in forest hydrology/botany at the University of Queensland. Lindsay held several post-doctoral fellowships at Charles Darwin University and is now an Associate Professor in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods. His recent work has focused on quantifying fluxes of carbon, water and energy balance from a range of ecosystems, including mangroves, temperate old-growth forests and Eucalypt-dominated tropical savanna ecosystems of north Australia.
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