ECT has registered the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research’s (BIFOR) Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) long-term experiment in its network of active research sites. Managed by PI Rob Mackenzie, BIFOR-FACE is only the second such facility globally, and the only one in the northern hemisphere.
Read MoreECT’s March newsletter is now published and headlines with our new YouTube channel and the launch of our two-monthly webinars. It also highlights our upcoming Buxton conference (register here), news from our RainDrop LTE and review of our very successful 10th anniversary activities.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of a small grant to PhD student James Edgerley at Lancaster University, whose studies on soil communities under climate change will include work on our Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory site in Derbyshire.
Read MoreECT Ten Years On, by Jonathan Silvertown. Read Jonathan’s review of where ECT came from and what we have achieved in our first ten years.
Read MoreECT is recruiting new trustees to supplement its existing Board of eight voluntary members. View our recruitment advert and person specification. Full application packs are available on request from ECT’s Executive Director. The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 29 March 2019.
Read MoreRegistration is now open for the ECT’s first annual national conference on LTEs this year, in partnership with BES’s Plants-Soils-Ecosystems SIG. The two-day conference is titled Long-term Ecological Experiments in Plant-Soil Ecosystems and will take place on 21/22 May 2019 at the superb Pavilion Gardens in Buxton, Derbyshire. Further details available on the Journal of Ecology Blog.
Read MoreA full video recording of ECT’s thematic session at the BES2018 conference in Birmingham is now available free via our videos webpage. The recording features all our speakers and the ensuing interactive discussion.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of a maintenance grant to PI Andreas Heinemeyer at the University of York, who works on the Peatland-ES-UK LTE in north-west England. Andreas will be using ECT funds to replace and upgrade ageing rhizon water samplers across the experiment’s three sites in North Yorkshire and Lancashire. If you are interested in using these sites as research platforms, please view our Peatland-ES-UK webpage.
Read MoreECT’s December newsletter is now published and headlines with the latest new pages on our website and an update on the Peatland-ES-UK LTE. It also highlights our on-going 10th anniversary activities, plans for our 2019 meeting, and our small grants scheme.
Read MoreECT’s tenth anniversary celebration session at this month’s BES2018 conference in Birmingham takes place on Tuesday 18 December in Hall 1 from 3pm to 5.15pm. Download the speaker programme here.
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