Following ECT’s recent registration of the Colt Park Meadows long-term experiment in North Yorkshire, a brand new webpage is now available for this LTE on the ECT website. Follow the link above for detail on the history, impacts, re-purposing and future potential of this valuable LTE research site, now running for almost 32 years.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to University of Birmingham researcher Kris Hart towards the costs of leaf litter sample curation work at the BIFoR-FACE experiment in Staffordshire. This work will enable the long-term archiving of both leaf samples and associated data for current and future researchers. Further information on the vitally important BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment is available.
Read MoreWe are delighted to welcome Danae Dodge to ECT, our new part-time Communications Officer who joined us at the beginning of February. Danae brings vital expertise to the charity across a number of digital comms platforms. Her working hours are mornings Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and afternoons Wednesday, Thursday. You can access a short ‘bio’ for Danae on the ‘About’ page of our website.
Read MoreRegistration is now open for CIEEM’s online Spring conference being held in partnership with ECT on 16 March and titled Long-term Ecological Research Projects - Using Evidence to Inform Practice. For programme details and registration for the day, view the CIEEM website. A concessionary registration rate applies to members of ECT’s LTE User Group.
Read MoreECT’s next webinar is coming up on 30 March, featuring guest speaker Martin Lester from the National Trust who will be presenting on the long-term ecological field research at the Wicken Fen nature reserve in East Anglia. This will be followed by our usual moderated Q&A with participants. For further details and to register, access our webinars page.
Read MoreChris Taylor and Luke England from the University of Sheffield relate the latest research results from an ECT-supported project on elevated CO₂ grassland mesocosms linked with the Wardlow Hay Cop LTE in Derbyshire. Read their blog post, and read more about the Wardlow Hay Cop LTE, running continuously since 1990.
Read MoreECT’s December newsletter is now published and available to download here. This issue headlines with the workshop on long-term environmental monitoring hosted by us in partnership with the UK Environmental Change Network (UKECN) at the BES2020 online conference, and highlights the upcoming CIEEM/ECT joint Spring conference. Plus new partnerships, our latest podcasts and new webpages, our Small Grants Scheme, and new publications arising from LTE research.
Read MoreECT is partnering with CIEEM for their online Spring conference (16 March) on Long-term Ecological Research Projects - Using Evidence to Inform Practice. Applications to present a talk at this conference are now invited from the applied ecological research community, with a deadline of 13 January 2021. View the CIEEM website for further details and the application proforma.
Read MoreECT is participating in next week’s BES Festival of Ecology being held online 14-18 December. Using the vFairs platform, we have designed a booth (pictured) which you can visit online and which showcases four of the long-term experiments on ECT’s register. Top billing goes to the Whim Bog experiment in Scotland, for which we have ten 360-degree video tours accessible from within the stand exclusively to registered delegates for the duration of the event. For further information, view the BES website.
Read MoreECT has registered the Colt Park Meadows long-term upland grassland restoration experiment in North Yorkshire in its national network of active LTEs. Running for 31 years, Colt Park was set up by Roger Smith from Newcastle University as a nutrient addition/grazing study, and is now led by PI Richard Bardgett from the University of Manchester. Pending a new webpage for this LTE, you can read more on the Soil and Ecosystem Lab page, University of Manchester. Wider information about all the sites in our network is available on our ‘Sites’ page.
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