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TERN only publishes data related to Australian terrestrial ecosystems and environmental science, including data collected at ecological plots and flux towers, as well as environmental parameters derived from airborne or satellite sensors. Examples are available at portal.tern.org.au. We accept data in standard formats such as CSV, NetCDF, GeoTiff , etc.

Note: You can supply your data in Excel format if it is also supplied in CSV format.


If you are not sure whether TERN is the right place to publish the type of data you have, contact us on esupport@tern.org.au for clarification.

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When you lodge your submission, you can request that a DOI is created for your data set. TERN will lodge a DOI request through the Datacite. Users will be informed when DOI is successfully minted.

Note: DOI’s will only be minted for completed datasets, not continuous datasets. TERN expects to be able to mint for continuous datasets in the future.

Data contact people

Each data submission:

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Several other fields are compulsory. You can see these by logging in and checking each tab in SHaRED.

Hosting data

Files up to 100 MB can be uploaded directly to TERN via the data submission process.

For larger datasets, please contact esupport@tern.org.au advising the content, file format and the size of the data files before completing your metadata record.

TERN may elect not to publish data hosted by third-parties providers, but we may be able to host the data for you.

Next: Create or edit metadata records in SHaRED

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