aceas rationale, organisation and status. a. specht, aceas grand 2014

ACEAS Grand Workshop 2014ACEAS – rationale,

organisation and current status

May 8 2014

How ACEAS helps TERN meet commonwealth objectives

TERN (from the investment guidelines 2008)

…is designed to enable researchers to…undertake analysis and construct models that…contribute to the development of a dynamic and holistic understanding of Australian ecosystems at both large…and small scales...

…is required to provide a platform for researchers to address key challenges and priorities to ensure Australia’s environmental sustainability.

…should be widely accessible for use by researchers on the basis of merit

…will encourage collaboration within the research community and with research users across all levels of government, regional natural resource management (NRM) bodies and the general public.

…to provide a collaborative environment and infrastructure for modeling ecological systems at a range of scales including management scenarios and cost benefit analysis including ‘what-if’ question and answer tools for the examination of long-term ecological research and management

How ACEAS helps TERN meet commonwealth objectives

TERN (from the investment guidelines 2008)

…is designed to enable researchers to…undertake analysis and construct models that…contribute to the development of a dynamic and holistic understanding of Australian ecosystems at both large…and small scales...

…is required to provide a platform for researchers to address key challenges and priorities to ensure Australia’s environmental sustainability.

…should be widely accessible for use by researchers on the basis of merit

…will encourage collaboration within the research community and with research users across all levels of government, regional natural resource management (NRM) bodies and the general public.

…to provide a collaborative environment and infrastructure for modeling ecological systems at a range of scales including management scenarios and cost benefit analysis including ‘what-if’ question and answer tools for the examination of long-term ecological research and management

This is A

CEAS

governance

The process to participation…

round Short title round Short title2013 Structured reflection of Australia’s environmental

research programs2011_2 Incorporation of new information streams into

National Conservation Assessment

SPEDDEXES Bioacoustic monitoringDeveloping an Australian Phenology Monitoring Network

Increasing the spatial scale of monitoring in freshwater systems

2012_2 Northern quoll populations The impacts of past climate change on Australian endemics

Interactive games Adaptation pathways for aquatic plants

International synthesis centre meeting Australian Seagrass HabitatsSpatial and temporal scales in aquatic connectivity Integration of remote sensing and land surface

models

Australian aerobiology 2011_1 Integrated catchment-to-coast planningLinking national scale remote sensing to land management priorities

Conserving Koalas in the 21st Century

Unifying principles for terrestrial ecosystem carbon, water and land-surface modelling

Molecules in models

Ecosystem vulnerability to changing fire regimes Avifaunal disarray

Decision-making for ex-situ conservation of Australian frogs

Bio-optical data

2012_1 Freshwater fish 2010_2 Transformational change of regional landscapes

Risk assessment of Australian ecosystems PyrogeographyIndigenous biocultural knowledge Thresholds and regime shifts in Australian

freshwater ecosystemsForest drought and mortality Carbon and nitrogen dynamics

Animal telemetry Extinction risk of frogsEnvironmental flow ecology BradshawEcosystem services and livelihood opportunities 2010_1 Vast lands and variable data

Transforming of Australia's vegetated landscapes

NCEAS-ACEAS

Title key words

Once funding is granted

Once funding is granted

Total number of participants: 722

Status in May 2014

Attendance at meetings

Representation

Representation

Representation

Network-building

Outcomes

• Final reports – 22, with one waiting for final approval

• Publications – 12 with more in press

• ARC grants – 4

• ‘Portals’ – 6

• Web sites – 2 plus other spatial displays

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