New ECT podcast
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Listen to Simon Caporn of Manchester Metropolitan University bringing to life the research and its impacts from Ruabon Moor long-term nitrogen deposition experiment in north-east Wales.
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New ECT Trustees Appointed
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Two new Trustees have been appointed to ECT’s Board with effect from 1 June 2020. We welcome Ken Thompson (formerly of University of Sheffield) and Dave Stone (Natural England) to our team. View the full Board membership on our ‘About’ page. We also pay tribute to long-serving Trustee Victoria Cadman who stepped down at the beginning of the year.
Read MoreNew DEFRA report on Peatland-ES-UK LTE published
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The DEFRA report BD5104 is now available which describes the results of the first phase of the Peatland-ES-UK LTE on the impacts of heather burning and mowing treatments on the health of upland blanket bog. The experiment has three sites across North Yorkshire and East Lancashire.
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New webpage published
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Hillsborough long-term nutrient fertilization experiment in Northern Ireland is the latest addition to ECT’s register of LTEs, now running for 50 years! A new webpage for the experiment is now available. The platform is available for use by the wider ecological community and you can access contact information (PI Dario Fornara) via the new page.
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Newsletter
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ECT’s March newsletter is now published. This issue headlines with the exciting launch of our virtual reality headset tour of the Buxton climate change experiment at the BES2019 conference in Belfast in December. Plus the addition to our register of a first LTE in Northern Ireland - the Hillsborough long-term nutrient fertilisation experiment (see item below). Note also our Growing ECT’s Capacity fundraising campaign.
Read MoreHillsborough Nutrient Fertilisation LTE Joins ECT Network
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ECT has registered the Hillsborough long-term slurry experiment near Belfast in its national network of active LTEs. Running for 50 years, this is the first LTE to be registered by ECT in Northern Ireland and is led by AFBI researcher Dario Fornara. Pending a new webpage for this LTE, you can read more on the AFBI website. Find more information about all the sites on our ‘Sites’ page.
Read MoreNew ECT podcast
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Listen to Chris Field of Manchester Metropolitan University bringing to life the research and its impacts from Little Budworth Common long-term nitrogen deposition experiment in Cheshire.
Read MoreUpcoming ECT webinar
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ECT’s seventh webinar is coming up on 26 March, featuring guest speaker Giulio Curioni from the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) on data curation & sample archiving at the BIFoR-FACE experiment in Norbury, Staffordshire. For further details and joining instructions, register via our ‘Webinars’ page.
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