Animal cell biologist Patrizia Ferretti from University College London attended our guided visit to the 168-year-long Park Grass experiment in Hertfordshire on 11 May. She provides an interesting account and perspective on the visit in this blog post for us. The visit was held in partnership with the Royal Society of Biology’s London Branch.
Read MorePhD student Sophie Mills from the University of Birmingham provides a synopsis of her work on pollen analysis from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment. With support from ECT, Sophie presented her results at the recent EGU2023 conference in Austria. Read Sophie’s blog.
Read MoreJonathan Silvertown (one of ECT’s founding trustees) provides a synopsis of the key messages which emerged from our Fringe Event on Long-term ecological field experiments - opportunities for soil scientists at the 2022 World Congress of Soil Science in Glasgow on 4 August. Read Jonathan’s blog.
Read MoreDavid Gowing from the Open University describes for us his recent experience of using a special ECT data curation grant to digitise and secure for all-time the 30+-year dataset from the Somerford Mead long-term grazing and restoration experiment in Oxfordshire. The data are now secured in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) and accessible to all. Read David’s blog.
Read MoreECT marks the recent passing away of Professor Phil Grime with an affectionate and moving tribute to his life available now on our ‘Blog’ page. Authored by ECT trustee Ken Thompson who was a close colleague of Phil’s at the University of Sheffield, the tribute pays homage to Phil as a leading plant ecologist and founder of the now-famous Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory in Derbyshire.
Read MoreECT’s September newsletter is now published and available to download here. This issue headlines with the publication of our Annual Report and Accounts for 2019, and features updates from several LTEs on our register. Plus wildfire recovery research, our latest podcasts, blog post and grant award under our Small Grants Scheme.
Read MoreRainDrop Experiment Update by Laura McManus & Andy Hector. The RainDrop team take stock of progress with the experiment in 2019 and look forward to the 2020 growing season.
Read MoreWant to keep up-to-date with the initiation of a new long-term experiment investigating the effects of future climate change? Read about RainDrop which is a of a collaborative project in development between the Open University, Oxford Plant Sciences and the ECT.
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