Towards The Global Terrestrial Observing System

The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network organised a high-level round-table meeting to explore the development of collaborative Global Terrestrial Observing System. The meeting was attended by the delegates from different organisations from around the world including International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER), National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), USA; Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems (AnaEE), Europe; South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON); Japan Long-Term Ecological Research (JaLTER); Philippine Long-Term Ecological Research (PhilTER), Chinese Ecological Research Network (CERN) and Korean Ecological Observatory Network (KEON). The round-table was held on 7th of March in Brisbane in conjunction with the world science festival. The round-table had a series of presentations from the delegates followed by a discussion and future actions. All the presentations are available for a quick view and download from a round-table presentation page.

Following was the program of the day:

TIME	PRESENTER	ORGANISATION	AGENDA ITEM
9:00 –9:05am	Tim Clancy	TERN	Welcome and Introduction to the meeting
9:05 – 9:30am	Hank Loescher	NEON	National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and thoughts on global collaboration
9:30 – 9:55am	Nikki Thurgate	TERN	Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN): Design overview, key global linkages and opportunities
9:55 - 10:10am	Michael Mirtl	ILTER	International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER)
10:10 -10:25am	Bill McDowall	US LTER	ILTER and Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) networks: Opportunities to build a global understanding of land-water linkages
10:25 -10:50am	*Morning tea*
10:50 -11:05am	Abad Chabbi	AnaEE	Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems (AnaEE)
11:05 -11:30am	Hiroyuki Muraoka	JaLTER	Japan Long Term Ecological Research Network (JaLTER)
11:30 -11:45am	Yifei Jia	CERN	Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN)
11:45 -12:00pm	Eun Shik	KLTER	Korean LTER and future developments
12:00 -12:15pm	Perry Ong	Philippines LTER	The Philippine Long Term Ecological Research Network (PhiLTERNet)
12:15 -12:30pm	Jean-Marc Hero	Griffith University, TERN SEQ Peri-urban Supersite	PPBio: A standardised international Program for Planned Biodiversity Monitoring and Ecosystem Research
12:30 -12:45pm	Mike Liddell	TERN Australian SuperSite Network	TERN SuperSites: A rapid boot-strap approach towards a continental monitoring system
12:45 -1:00 pm	TBA	SAEON	TBA
1:00 - 1:10pm	Nikki Thurgate	TERN	Morning summary, key messages and introduction to afternoon session
1:10 - 2:00pm	*Lunch*
2:00 -3:30pm	Nikki Thurgate faciliator	All	Round table discussion: Why do we need a global observatory? What is an infrastructure approach? Monitoring or experimentation? What are the existing linkages and how do we build upon them? How do we foster global collaboration? What are examples of things that have worked well/poorly? What have we (as discrete networks) learned that informs the development of this concept?
3:30 - 3:45pm	*Afternoon tea*
3:45 - 5:00pm	All	All	Round table discussion continued: How do we fund a global network? At what scales do we report? What is NOT part of a global observatory? What do we need that we don’t have? Do we change or can we integrate? What framework will we use? Who is missing from this discussion? What are the next steps and priorities? Are larger scale global meetings required in the future?

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