Upcoming ECT webinar

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Upcoming ECT webinar

ECT’s next webinar is coming up on 17 September, featuring guest speaker Gareth Clay from the University of Manchester. Gareth will be presenting on the opportunities for harnessing long-term ecological experiments in wildfire recovery research. 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 Jason Reeves is now available to view from our YouTube channel.

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Moor House Grazing Plots LTE joins ECT network

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Moor House Grazing Plots LTE joins ECT network

ECT has registered the long-term Moor House Grazing Exclosures in Upper Teesdale in our national network of currently active long-term experiments. Spanning multiple sites across different habitats within the Moor House National Nature Reserve (owned by Natural England), some of these plots have been running since 1953! Look out for a new webpage for this LTE and view our ‘Sites’ page for the plot locations in the North Pennines area.

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Newsletter

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Newsletter

ECT’s June newsletter is now published via our newsletter archive page in a completely new web-based format designed by our Communications Officer Danae Dodge. It includes an update from the Buxton team, together with reports on recent ECT site visits to LTEs, new awards under our Small Grants Scheme and a reminder on our upcoming webinar with Jason Reeves from CIEEM (21 July).

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New Small Grant award

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New Small Grant award

ECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to Dr Josep Barba at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) for project work at the BIFoR-FACE CO₂ elevation experiment in Staffordshire. Our grant will be used towards field consumables for measuring tree stem CO₂ and methane fluxes under elevated atmospheric CO₂ in the mature oak woodland arrays at BIFoR-FACE.

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