EVENT DETAILS
Further information on events
ECT will be exhibiting the regenerative agriculture festival Groundswell in Hertfordshire for 2 days in July.
For more information on Groundswell, see Groundswell.
Cicely Marshall (University of Cambridge) will be speaking on testing Defra’s Statutory Biodiversity Metric using long-term experiments. This talk will take place online on Webex.
Our lunchtime webinars every 2 months bring together the long-term experiment community and the public. The talks are 30 minutes and are then followed by Q&A.
To register, email Danae Dodge and state any accessibility requirements.
Sara Lil Middleton (University of Oxford) will be speaking on the RainDrop LTE.
To register and receive the joining instructions for this webinar, please e-mail Danae Dodge. Do let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.
We will be attending the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting in Liverpool this December.
For more information on registering and attending, see: BES Annual Meeting 2024 - British Ecological Society
Robin Pakeman from the James Hutton Institute will provide an update on the latest results from the Glen Finglas long-term grazing experiment.
This webinar will take place on Webex.
To register and receive the joining instructions for this webinar, please e-mail Danae Dodge. Do let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.
The ECT will be attending the New Scientist Live 2024 as an exhibitor.
New Scientist Live takes place every year and is a huge event with multiple stages, high-profile speakers and over 80 exhibitors.
Taking place over the course of 3 days, we will be showcasing the work that we do, and we will provide delegates the opportunity to see long-term experiments sites in virtual reality.
In partnership with the British Ecological Society, Natural England, National Trust, RSPB, Woodland Trust, WWF, and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, we are organising the science symposium: Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature and Climate that will take place in Birmingham on the 24 - 25 June 2024.
The UK’s major landowning organisations are engaged in an ever-increasing number of large landscape projects to secure a more resilient future for our climate, people and nature. Most are multi-faceted intending multiple outcomes crossing the environmental, social and economic spectrum.
This 2-day BES symposium in June supports the creation of a more cohesive community around large-scale land, freshwaters and coastal/marine systems and is the first of a series of connected events delivered by our partnership (which is open to new members) to encourage the sharing of best practice, promote more standardised and effective monitoring and evaluation approaches and support the development of new projects to enhance our evidence base and ensure the most impactful outcomes.
We are very keen for this to be a transdisciplinary event and welcome contributors and attendees from practice, academia, policy, industry, commerce, infrastructure, agriculture and more.
For more information, to see the programme, the call for abstracts and how to register, see: BES Symposium: Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature and Climate - British Ecological Society
This 2 day hybrid conference will feature talks, a public lecture and a poster session.
Tickets are free to attend online but we are limited to 100 'in person' tickets.
The ECT will be attending the annual meeting and there will be an opportunity to “see” long-term experiment sites in virtual reality.
Forests are composed of, driven and used by, as well as celebrated by, communities. In other words, forests are communities. From the underground microbial communities, to the flora and fauna of the canopy, forests are shaped by every organism within the ecosystem. Today's forest communities face a range of challenges, not limited to global climate trends, disease outbreaks, invasive species, and habitat destruction. While some forest systems are breaking under these pressures, we also see how others show remarkable resilience against new challenges. With ever-increasing knowledge of the importance of forests for global ecosystem health, we are seeing increasing communication within human communities to protect and celebrate our forests. This conference aims to convene experts across a range of disciplines to share current research about the communities of, communities supporting, and communities supported by, global forests.
More information and how to register: 2024 BIFoR Annual Meeting - University of Birmingham
ECT Webinar Series
Julie Ewald from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust will be speaking about the Sussex study and the impacts of farming changes over 56 years.
To register for this webinar, email Danae Dodge
The event will take place on Webex and the link will be provided upon registration.
Join the Royal Society of Biology London branch and the Ecological Continuity Trust for a visit to Park Grass, and hear from Andy Gregory and Jonathan Storkey, both Rothamsted Research, as well as Keith Goulding, ECT trustee and Rothamsted Research.
Visitors will need to wear sturdy shoes, bring waterproofs, and a packed lunch. There will be the option of travelling by coach from London or making your own way to the site. Those coming from regions outside of London will need to make their own way there.
If you are travelling by car, details on how to get there can be found at: How to find Rothamsted Research.
Coach timetable
10:45 - Coach departs London
12:00 - Arrive at event
16:00 - Coach departs Rothamsted Research
Please note: Places for the coach will be limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. The final day to cancel and get a refund in 23:59 on Tuesday 23rd April. If the number of attendees is less than 10, then we reserve the right to cancel this event and registered attendees will receive a full refund.
Audience
This event is open to all adults over 18. Children 11 + are also welcome but must be accompanied by an adult.
Booking and cost
Spaces for this event are limited, and so advanced booking is essential.
Adult (member and non-member) - £10
Children - £5
RSB member coming by coach - £15
Non -RSB member coming by coach - £20
Student coming by coach - £10
Children coming by coach - £10
To register for this, go to the Royal Society of Biology Park Grass Visit event page.
ECT webinar series:
Jonathan Storkey (Rothamsted Research) will be speaking about the long-term experiment Park Grass as part of the ECT webinar series.
To register for this webinar, email Ben Sykes.
The event will take place on Webex and the link will be provided.
The 2023 British Ecological Society’s Annual meeting is taking place in Belfast in Northern Ireland from the 12-15 December.
The ECT will be attending.
The London branch of the Royal Society of Biology is hosting its AGM and a talk by Roberto Salguerro-Gómez (University of Oxford).
RSB members are welcome to attend the London branch AGM, and everyone is welcome to attend the talk by Roberto which is free.
Roberto works on the RainDrop experiment in Oxfordshire, and his talk will be on “More rotors, wheels, and AI to predict the effects of climate change on biodiversity” where he will present the role of engineering and computer science in responding to climate change and the biodiversity crisis.
5:30pm- AGM starts
6:15pm- Talk begins
6:45/6:50- Talk ends
6:50- Questions
7pm- Drinks and networking
To register for this event, see the RSB’s event page.
As part of the Royal Society of Biology’s Biology Week, we are hosting a 1 hour webinar to introduce ourselves and talk about long-term experiments for RSB members and anyone who is interested.
Join Ben Sykes (ECT executive director) and ECT trustee Kadmiel Maseyk (Open University) for a talk about the ECT and long-term experiments. Ben Sykes will introduce the ECT, and Kadmiel Maseyk will highlight the science of LTEs and showcase 4 LTEs in the UK.
Registration is required. To register, email danae.dodge@ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org
The joining link will be sent out closer to the day.
Everyone is welcome to attend this free event, and there will be a chance for questions. This event will take place on Webex which you can join on your browser.
Alan Radbourne and Jack Cosby from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology will talk about the Plynlimon Research Catchments that has been running since 1967.
Here Alan Radbourne has been comparing how conifer forestry plantation and grazed moorland affects the water catchments.
This talk will take place on Webex. To register and receive the joining instructions for this webinar, please send an e-mail to Ben Sykes. Do let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.
Organised by the Royal Society of Biology and as part of their Plant Health Series, attendees will have the opportunity to go on an exclusive guided tour of BIFoR-FACE; a long-term experiment that is registered with the Ecological Continuity Trust. Following this tour, attendees will get to visit the Wolfson Advanced Glasshouses and Winterbourne Gardens at the University of Birmingham.
For more information and how to register, head to the Royal Society of Biology event webpage.
Raj Whitlock (University of Liverpool) will speak about the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory long-term experiment which is taking place in Derbyshire. This experiments aims to uncover the effects of climate change on British grassland.
This webinar will take place on Webex. To register for it, please email Ben Sykes. Do let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.
This year the British Ecological Society are hosting their annual meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. The ECT will be attending as an exhibitor, and there will be an opportunity to try out a virtual reality tour of Whim Bog, the Scottish nutrient deposition LTE.
Further details will be added here in due course.
For more information see: BES Annual Meeting 2022
We are hosting a fringe event in Glasgow at the World Congress of Soil Science 2022, which is a conference organised by the British Society of Soil Science. The fringe event is open to conference delegates.
Taking place over 2 days, the first day (4 August) will feature a series of talks, and on the second day (5 August), there will be a guided tour of the Whim Bog LTE.
Mick Crawley from Imperial College London will be speaking about the Silwood Park Experiments: Nash’s Field and Pound Hill.
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