ECT has awarded its first small grant of the new calendar year to Andrew Hacket-Pain at the University of Liverpool, working in collaboration with John Healey and colleagues at Bangor University. The award is for consumables and travel costs for this year’s transect monitoring fieldwork at the Lady Park Wood long-term experiment in Gloucestershire. This award has been co-funded by our grants scheme partner charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust.
Read MoreECT’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 small 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.
Read MoreECT has awarded a maintenance grant to Rob Graham at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) as a contribution towards the costs of upgrading sheep fencing around the plots at the SRUC Tulloch rotation and grazing agroecological experiment in Aberdeenshire. Our Small Grants Scheme remains closed to new applications for the remainder of 2024.
Read MoreECT has awarded a small grant to Elena Arrigoni at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for equipment and consumables costs associated with maintaining treatments at the Thursley Common air pollution deposition long-term experiment in Surrey. 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.
Read MoreECT 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.
Read MoreECT’s latest two-monthly newsletter for August is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on filming for our latest virtual reality (VR) tour of an LTE, together with an important update on ECT’s small grants scheme and news from the Glen Finglas, SRUC Tulloch and Moor House Hard Hill experiments on our national register.
Read MoreRead our latest blog post from Cicely Marshall (University of Cambridge) following her ECT-funded work (via our Small Grants Scheme) using several LTEs on our national register to evaluate Defra’s statutory Biodiversity Metric 3.0. Cicely’s results have been published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Read MoreDue to unprecedented demand for our Small Grants Scheme in the first half of 2024, our budget for grant awards to LTEs is now fully committed this year. Our grants scheme is therefore closed temporarily to any new applications for the remainder of 2024 and will re-open on 1 January 2025.
Read MoreECT’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 has awarded a maintenance grant to Nina Overtoom and Sylvia Toet at the University of York as a contribution to the costs of repairing and replacing essential research equipment at the 14-year-long Cors Fochno climate change experiment near Borth in mid-Wales. This award has been co-funded with our partner charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust.
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