December 24, 2024

ECT Newsletter December 2024

December 24, 2024/ Danae Dodge

ECT’s latest two-monthly newsletter for December is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on the launch of our latest virtual reality (VR) tour of an LTE - the North Wyke Farm Platform in Devon - together with the publication of our new Strategic Plan, our final sma ll grant awards of 2024, the addition of a new LTE to our national register (Loughgall agroforestry experiment in Northern Ireland) and an update on the BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Staffordshire.

October 07, 2024

New Small Grant award

October 07, 2024/ Danae Dodge

ECT has awarded a maintenance grant to Alexander Armstrong and Sami Ullah at the University of Birmingham as a contribution to the costs of repairing essential soil gas-flux monitoring equipment at the 7-year-long BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Norbury, Staffordshire. This award has been co-funded with our partner charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust. Our Small Grants Scheme remains closed to new applications for the remainder of 2024.

September 06, 2024

Filming at LTEs

September 06, 2024/ Danae Dodge

ECT has completed two days of filming during the first week of September at four of the LTEs on our national register - Park Grass, BCCIL, BIFoR-FACE and Wicken Fen Vision. The footage will be used to prepare a new corporate film about LTEs and our charitable work.

June 25, 2024

Newsletter

June 25, 2024/ Danae Dodge

ECT’s latest two-monthly newsletter for June is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on the installation of our latest LTE interpretation board at the Lena Ward Plots at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve (NNR) in Oxfordshire, together with updates on partnerships and grants, and news from the BIFoR-FACE experiment on our national register.

April 15, 2024

Newsletter

April 15, 2024/ Danae Dodge

ECT’s now two-monthly newsletter for April is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes an update on our upcoming joint symposium on Resilient Landscapes with BES and other NGO partners on 24/25 June, together with news from the BIFoR-FACE and Peatland ES-UK LTEs on our national register.

April 03, 2024

New publication

April 03, 2024/ Danae Dodge

A further new paper has recently been published from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. Authored by Rob MacKenzie and colleagues (University of Birmingham), the paper in the Journal of Forestry Research describes how elevated CO₂ is affecting acorn production. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.

March 25, 2024

New publication

March 25, 2024/ Danae Dodge

A new paper has been published in the journal Food & Energy Security from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. Authored by Rob MacKenzie and colleagues (University of Birmingham), the paper describes how the BIFoR-FACE LTE is contributing to better policymaking around tree planting and woodland management. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.

August 14, 2023

New Small Grant award

August 14, 2023/ Danae Dodge

ECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Scott Hayward at the University of Birmingham towards the costs of species-level identification of the insect sample archive taken from the BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Staffordshire. Samples are being processed for DNA barcoding as part of the UK-wide BIOSCAN project run by the Sanger Institute.

July 17, 2023

ECT at BIFoR Annual Meeting 2023

July 17, 2023/ Danae Dodge

ECT took its exhibition stand to the BIFoR Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 4-5 July, making available to delegates our latest Virtual Reality (VR) headset experience for the Whim Bog long-term experiment in Scotland. You can read more about the wider conference on the BIFoR website.

June 29, 2023

Newsletter

June 29, 2023/ Danae Dodge

ECT’s quarterly newsletter for June is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the BIFoR-FACE, Bamford Edge, Sourhope and Peatland-ES-UK experiments, together with news of our work with BES on landscape-scale studies (see earlier news item below) and a reminder about recruitment to the ECT’s Volunteer Pool.

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