June 21, 2023

ECT x BES Landscape-Scale workshop

June 21, 2023/ Danae Dodge

In close partnership with the British Ecological Society (BES), ECT hosted an invitation-only workshop in London on 21 June which brought together almost 40 of the UK’s major landowners with interests in landscape-scale transformation. The main purpose of the workshop was to connect stakeholders and begin discussions around best practice for the design and implementation of landscape-scale experiments, living laboratories and wholescapes.

June 12, 2023

ECT article in The Niche

June 12, 2023/ Danae Dodge

This month’s edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features an article from one of our trustees Jeff Duckett (Queen Mary University of London) on how the role of long-term experiments in defending against threats to the environment is needed now more than ever.

June 01, 2023

New publication

June 01, 2023/ Danae Dodge

A new paper has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Management from the Bamford Edge long-term bracken control/grassland recovery experiment in Derbyshire. Authored by PI Rob Marrs (University of Liverpool) and colleagues, the paper describes how upland acid grasslands can recover following different bracken controls. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.

May 31, 2023

New ECT podcast

May 31, 2023/ Danae Dodge

Listen to Raj Whitlock from the University of Liverpool bringing to life the research that has been going on for almost 30 years now at the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory in Derbyshire.

May 17, 2023

New Small Grant award

May 17, 2023/ Danae Dodge

ECT has awarded its latest maintenance grant to Andreas Heinemeyer at the University of York towards the costs of replacement water table depth loggers and battery pack renewal at the Peatland-ES-UK long-term heather moorland management experiment.

May 08, 2023

New blog post

May 08, 2023/ Danae Dodge

PhD 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.

April 17, 2023

Upcoming ECT webinar

April 17, 2023/ Danae Dodge

ECT’s next two-monthly webinar is scheduled for 30 June 2023 and will feature guest speaker Raj Whitlock from the University of Liverpool. Raj will be speaking about 30 years of research at the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (BCCIL). For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.

April 03, 2023

Latest ECT webinar recording on YouTube

April 03, 2023/ Danae Dodge

Access a recording of our most recent webinar (14 April) featuring Christine Watson and Rob Graham from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), speaking about the SRUC Tulloch long-term agroecological rotational experiment in Aberdeenshire. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.

March 31, 2023

Newsletter

March 31, 2023/ Danae Dodge

ECT’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.

March 28, 2023

Volunteering for ECT

March 28, 2023/ Danae Dodge

View our new ‘Opportunities’ page to learn how you can be recruited to ECT’s Volunteer Pool and become engaged with our charitable objectives, particularly communicating ecological science and helping to maintain infrastructure at the experiments in our network.

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