Come and find us next week in Belfast 12-15 December at Stand No.17 in the exhibition hall at the British Ecological Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting. We will be showcasing our latest VR experience for the Plynlimon Research Catchments experiment installed on our brand new Oculus Quest 2 headsets. The virtual hot-air-balloon flight is not to be missed!
Read MoreECT has awarded a maintenance grant to Catalina Estrada at Imperial College Silwood Park as a contribution to the costs of repairing the fencing around the grazing exclosures at the 30-year-long Nash’s Field grazing and fertilisation experiment at Silwood Park, Berkshire.
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Konstans Wells at Swansea University towards consumables costs for comparing gut microbiome-parasite status and health in grazing animals feeding on different grasslands at the Rowden Plots long-term field experiment in North Wyke, Devon.
Read MoreOn Friday 24 November, ECT will be hosting its next two-monthly webinar with speaker John Langley-Randall from ADAS presenting on the impacts of mob grazing on soil health. See our webinars page for further details and registration.
Read MoreA brand-new webpage for the long-term Plynlimon Research Catchments experiment in the Cambrian Mountains of mid-Wales is now available on our website. Follow the link above for our ‘new look’ to our LTE site pages, containing a mine of information for multiple audiences. The Plynlimon experiment has now been running for 56 years!
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (15 September) with Alan Radbourne and Jack Cosby (pictured) from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology at Bangor speaking about 56 years of research at the Plynlimon Research Catchments long-term land use experiment in mid-Wales. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreAs part of the Royal Society of Biology’s Biology Week programme of events next month, ECT will be hosting an online webinar on the evening of Wednesday 18 October from 6-7pm. The event will introduce the ECT and then focus on some of the long-term ecological field experiments (LTEs) on our national register. See our ‘Webinars & Events’ page for further details and registration in advance.
Read MoreThe formal report of proceedings at our 21 June landscape-scale transformation workshop with the UK’s major landowners is now published via our ‘Reports’ page. The report details the next steps we will be taking in close partnership with the British Ecological Society (BES).
Read MoreAccess a transcript just published this month of an interview with our Communications Officer Danae Dodge. Conducted by the organisation Charity Digital, it explains who we are and how we came to use virtual reality (VR) technology in our science communication work.
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