Annual Report & Accounts 2022 published
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Upcoming ECT webinar
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On Friday 15 September, ECT will be hosting its next two-monthly webinar with speakers Alan Radbourne and Jack Cosby (UKCEH Bangor) presenting over 50 years of research at the Plynlimon Research Catchments long-term experiment in mid Wales. See our webinars page for further details and registration.
Read MoreNew Small Grant award
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ECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Sylvia Toet at the University of York towards the costs of sustaining annual vegetation measurements at the Cors Fochno climate change experiment in mid-Wales. Costs include infrastructure maintenance, greenhouse gas measurement training and soil microbial sampling.
Read MoreNew Small Grant award
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ECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Scott Hayward at the University of Birmingham towards the costs of species-level identification of the insect sample archive taken from the BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Staffordshire. Samples are being processed for DNA barcoding as part of the UK-wide BIOSCAN project run by the Sanger Institute.
Read MoreLatest ECT webinar recording on YouTube
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Access a recording of our most recent webinar (30 June) with Raj Whitlock from the University of Liverpool speaking about 30 years of research at the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (BCCIL) in Derbyshire. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreECT site visit to SRUC Tulloch experiment
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On 13 July, ECT visited the most recent long-term experiment to be added to our national register - the Tulloch agroecological rotational experiment at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) in Aberdeenshire, running for 33 years! Look out next month for the podcast interview recorded at the site with Principal Investigator Christine Watson and colleagues, which will be available via ECT’s SoundCloud platform.
Read MoreECT at BIFoR Annual Meeting 2023
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ECT took its exhibition stand to the BIFoR Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 4-5 July, making available to delegates our latest Virtual Reality (VR) headset experience for the Whim Bog long-term experiment in Scotland. You can read more about the wider conference on the BIFoR website.
Read MoreFilming at Plynlimon Research Catchments
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In close partnership with UKCEH Bangor and our technology providers Maple Bay Games/Aerialworx drone-filming, ECT spent two days in mid-Wales this month taking 360-degree film footage of the Plynlimon Catchments long-term term land use experiment. This will form the basis of our latest Virtual Reality (VR) headset experience which will ‘debut’ at the BES 2023 Annual Meeting in Belfast 12-15 December. Be sure to try it out!
Read MoreNewsletter
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ECT’s quarterly newsletter for June is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the BIFoR-FACE, Bamford Edge, Sourhope and Peatland-ES-UK experiments, together with news of our work with BES on landscape-scale studies (see earlier news item below) and a reminder about recruitment to the ECT’s Volunteer Pool.
Read MoreNew Small Grant award
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ECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Roberto Salguero-Gómez at the University of Oxford towards the costs of consumables for tracking plant community resilience using phenocams and artificial intelligence (AI) at the RainDrop long-term drought experiment at Wytham Woods.
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