At the recent EAB2021 conference in Liverpool, ECT launched its new VR headset tour of the Whim Bog long-term nitrogen deposition experiment located in the Scottish Borders just south of Edinburgh. Delegates experienced 360-degree embedded videos of PIs Matt Jones and Netty van Dijk talking about the science of Whim, together with an innovative high-level (200ft) flyover of the site in a virtual hot air balloon!
Read MoreECT’s December newsletter is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the Bamford/Hordron Edge, Glen Finglas and Moor House experiments, together with reports on recent ECT site visits to LTEs, the addition of a further ‘new’ experiment to our national register, and the first news on our remit expansion to include certain types of long-term monitoring studies.
Read MoreECT’s next webinar is coming up on 12 January 2022, featuring guest speaker Steve Ormerod from Cardiff University. Steve will be presenting on forty years of continuous research at the Llyn Brianne freshwater stream catchments experiment, running since 1981. This will be followed by our usual moderated Q&A with participants. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of a ‘landmark’ data curation grant to Professor David Gowing at the Open University for resources to secure and curate hardcopy survey data from the Somerford Mead long-term experiment in Oxfordshire. The data will be prepared and deposited with NERC’s Environmental Information Centre (EIDC), providing access for all.
Read MoreAs part of an innovative project at the interface between science and the arts for COP26, performance poet Joelle Taylor has written and performed a poem around wildfires now available on the Hot Poets project website for Day 4 of COP26. The poem was inspired by Joelle’s recent visit to Thursley Common long-term experiment and the wider National Nature Reserve, hosted by ECT, Natural England and wildfire researcher Gareth Clay (University of Manchester). Thursley has suffered several wildfires since 2000.
Read MoreECT has become a Supporting Organisational Member of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB), signalling the beginning of a new partnership which will help to link RSB’s regional activities with the LTE sites in ECT’s UK-wide network. This will enable a greater use of long-term ecological field experiments for science communication and educational purposes.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to Dr Caroline Meharg at Queen’s University Belfast for work at the Hillsborough long-term nutrient addition experiment in Northern Ireland. Our grant will be used towards sequencing consumables for surveying the soil rhizosphere microbes at the Hillsborough plots.
Read MoreECT has secured corporate membership of the BSSS, signalling the beginning of a new partnership which will help to open up the 37 currently-active long-term experimental sites on ECT’s national register to greater use by soil scientists. Look out too for some joint communications activities during COP26. Read more on the BSSS website.
Read MoreThe latest science to emerge from the BIFoR-FACE long-term woodland CO₂ elevation experiment in Staffordshire was featured this week on the BBC’s Midlands Today programme.
Read MoreThe latest paper to emerge from the first four years of work at the BIFoR-FACE elevated CO₂ woodland experiment in Staffordshire has been published by Anna Gardner and colleagues at the University of Birmingham in Tree Physiology. The mature oak woodland canopy at the experiment has shown a sustained and elevated carbon uptake response to raised atmospheric CO₂ across the three years of the study. See the University of Birmingham’s press release.
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