Annual Report and Accounts 2020 published
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Llyn Brianne Observatory Joins ECT Network
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ECT has registered the long-term Llyn Brianne river ecosystem experiment in central Wales in our national network of active LTEs. Running for over 30 years, and managed by Steve Ormerod at Cardiff University, Llyn Brianne is one of the longest-running catchment projects anywhere in the world and has been a key source of evidence and policy advice on river ecocsystems. Pending a new webpage for this LTE, you can read more on the Cardiff University website. View our ‘Sites’ page for wider information about all the sites in our network.
Read MoreTribute to Phil Grime
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ECT marks the recent passing away of Professor Phil Grime with an affectionate and moving tribute to his life available now on our ‘Blog’ page. Authored by ECT trustee Ken Thompson who was a close colleague of Phil’s at the University of Sheffield, the tribute pays homage to Phil as a leading plant ecologist and founder of the now-famous Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory in Derbyshire.
Read MoreUpcoming ECT webinar
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ECT’s next webinar is coming up on 19 May, featuring guest speaker Lisa Chilton, newly-appointed Chief Executive of the National Biodiversity Network (NBN). Lisa will be presenting on the work of the NBN Trust and its interface with other NGOs. This will be followed by our usual moderated Q&A with participants. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page. The recording of our previous webinar with Martin Lester is now available to view from our YouTube channel.
Read MoreCIEEM x ECT joint Spring conference presentations
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Following our joint online conference with CIEEM earlier this month, speakers’ presentations are now available to all in PDF form via CIEEM’s website. For attending delegates, full recordings of presentations are available to view via the Whova conference platform.
Read MoreNewsletter
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ECT’s March newsletter is now published and available to view here. This comes with a ‘new look’ provided by ECT’s new Communications Officer Danae Dodge and includes updates from the RainDrop and BIFoR teams, together with new webpages for two experiments, changes to our Small Grants Scheme and a reminder on our upcoming webinar with Martin Lester from the National Trust (30 March).
Read MoreNew Small Grant award
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ECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to PhD student Katy Faulkner at the University of Warwick for travel and consumables costs associated with a student project at the BIFoR-FACE long-term experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. The work will be looking at the impact of high rainfall events on forest soil microbes under the future (elevated) atmospheric CO₂ levels currently being simulated at the experiment.
Read MoreWebinars on YouTube
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ECT is now publishing recordings of our regular webinars via our YouTube channel. Access a recording of our most recent webinar (January), featuring ECT trustee Ken Thompson speaking about ‘Long Term Experiments and Urban Horticulture: A Missing Link?’ and our previous webinar (December) with Charlie Burrell from Knepp Wildland on ‘Impacts of Wilding on Biodiversity & Soil Health’.
Read MoreNew ECT podcast and webpage
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Listen to Laurence Jones of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Bangor) bringing to life the research and its impacts from the 17-year-long nitrogen addition & grazing experiment at Newborough Warren sand dunes on Anglesey, north Wales. A brand new webpage is also now available for the Newborough Warren LTE where background to the experiment can be found alongside the results so far and a comprehensive list of publications.
Read MoreNew RainDrop experiment video out
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Oxford Sparks, the online portal for public engagement with science across the University of Oxford, has just published a video on the RainDrop long-term drought experiment at Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire. Access the video via ECT’s YouTube playlist.
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