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.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with the charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust who will be contributing co-funding to our Small Grants Scheme over the next 5 years. Trustees of Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust have a passion to conserve, protect and enhance the environment to enable greater access to the outdoors for all, which complements ECT’s network of ecological field experiments located in mostly remote rural locations.
Read MoreECT’s quarterly newsletter for March is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the Peatland-ES-UK (new publications), MOORCO and Brignant Plots experiments, together with news of our new links with Pasture for Life (PfL) and our renewed call for people to join the ECT’s Volunteer Pool.
Read MoreECT has become a Supporting Organisational Member of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB), signalling the beginning of a new partnership which will help to link RSB’s regional activities with the LTE sites in ECT’s UK-wide network. This will enable a greater use of long-term ecological field experiments for science communication and educational purposes.
Read MoreECT has secured corporate membership of the BSSS, signalling the beginning of a new partnership which will help to open up the 37 currently-active long-term experimental sites on ECT’s national register to greater use by soil scientists. Look out too for some joint communications activities during COP26. Read more on the BSSS website.
Read MoreRegistration is now open for CIEEM’s online Spring conference being held in partnership with ECT on 16 March and titled Long-term Ecological Research Projects - Using Evidence to Inform Practice. For programme details and registration for the day, view the CIEEM website. A concessionary registration rate applies to members of ECT’s LTE User Group.
Read MoreECT’s December newsletter is now published and available to download here. This issue headlines with the workshop on long-term environmental monitoring hosted by us in partnership with the UK Environmental Change Network (UKECN) at the BES2020 online conference, and highlights the upcoming CIEEM/ECT joint Spring conference. Plus new partnerships, our latest podcasts and new webpages, our Small Grants Scheme, and new publications arising from LTE research.
Read MoreFloodplain Meadow Partnership conducted their regular fritillary count and survey of the water-management trial plots at North Meadow, Cricklade in Spring. Monitoring is going strong and now in its 18th year the fritillary count attracted over thirty volunteers and was showcased by BBC1's Countryfile programme.
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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