ECT’s first two-monthly newsletter of the year is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on several recent activities associated with the RainDrop long-term drought/enhanced rainfall experiment at Wytham, together with our first small grant award of 2025, updates on the Thursley Common and Cors Fochno LTEs and links to some of the latest journal publications from more LTEs on our national register.
Read MoreECT 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.
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 MoreListen to Jill Kowal from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew bringing to life the history and now re-purposed research at the Thursley Common long-term nitrogen deposition experiment on lowland heath in Surrey.
Read MoreA recording of the Zoom Into Soil webinar hosted jointly by the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) and ECT on 2 March is now available via the BSSS YouTube channel. The webinar was titled ‘A Successful Garden Above & Below Ground and featured two talks, firstly from Jon Dickinson (aka ‘The Handsome Gardener’) followed by Jill Kowal (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, pictured) who manages the Thursley Common experiment on our national register.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to new Principal Investigator Jill Kowal at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew towards the renewal of the Thursley Common nitrogen addition experiment in Surrey. Our grant will be used towards travel and consumables for measuring the ability of heathland vegetation and belowground mycorrhizal fungal communities to recover 10 years after persistent elevated nitrogen treatments.
Read MoreA new page is now available on the ECT website for the Thursley Common long-term nitrogen deposition/land management experiment on Natural England’s NNR in Surrey. Follow the link above for new detail on the history, impacts and future potential of this valuable LTE research site, started in 1989.
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