New LTE interpretation board at Thursley Common NNR

New LTE interpretation board at Thursley Common NNR

ECT joined forces with Natural England, the JNCC and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew to help prepare, design and install a brand new interpretation board for the long-term pollution deposition and recovery experiment (now called APRI) at Thursley Common in Surrey. This reinvigorated LTE with a new team builds on the work of Sally Power who started the original experiment at the site in 1989.

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COP26 performance poetry on wildfires inspired by Thursley Common LTE

COP26 performance poetry on wildfires inspired by Thursley Common LTE

As part of an innovative project at the interface between science and the arts for COP26, performance poet Joelle Taylor has written and performed a poem around wildfires now available on the Hot Poets project website for Day 4 of COP26. The poem was inspired by Joelle’s recent visit to Thursley Common long-term experiment and the wider National Nature Reserve, hosted by ECT, Natural England and wildfire researcher Gareth Clay (University of Manchester). Thursley has suffered several wildfires since 2000.

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