Access a recording of our most recent webinar (7 October) featuring Richard Bardgett, Professor of Ecology at the University of Manchester, speaking about the Colt Park Meadows long-term grassland restoration experiment in the Yorkshire Dales. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreDavid Gowing from the Open University describes for us his recent experience of using a special ECT data curation grant to digitise and secure for all-time the 30+-year dataset from the Somerford Mead long-term grazing and restoration experiment in Oxfordshire. The data are now secured in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) and accessible to all. Read David’s blog.
Read MoreA brand-new webpage for the BangorDIVERSE long-term tree diversity experiment in North Wales is now available on our website. Follow the link above for our ‘new look’ to our site pages, containing a mine of information for multiple audiences. The BangorDIVERSE experiment has now been running for 18 years.
Read MoreUsing an ECT special data curation grant, David Gowing and colleagues at the Open University have digitised over 30 years of data from the Somerford Mead grassland grazing experiment in Oxfordshire and deposited it in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC), giving access for all. Access the dataset.
Read MoreECT’s quarterly newsletter for September is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes an update from the BIFoR-FACE experiment (new publication), reports on our major events across the summer, and exciting news about the Somerford Mead LTE dataset (decades-long) being secured for all in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC).
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to PhD student William Hagan Brown at the University of Plymouth for equipment purchase associated with his project at the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in Staffordshire. Our award will contribute towards the costs of thermocouples for supplementary measurements of oak leaf temperature in the woodland canopy under elevated CO₂.
Read MoreThis month’s edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features an article on the Plynlimon Catchments LTE in mid-Wales, co-authored with PI Bridget Emmett from UKCEH Bangor.
Read MoreECT’s next two-monthly webinar is scheduled for 7 October 2022 and will feature guest speaker Richard Bardgett from the University of Manchester. Richard will be speaking about the long-term grassland restoration experiment at Colt Park Meadows in the Yorkshire Dales, followed by our usual moderated Q&A with participants. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (15 July) featuring Mick Crawley, Professor Emeritus at Imperial College Silwood Park, speaking about the long-term experiments and monitoring studies at Silwood in Berkshire. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new recordings, where you may also view recordings of our previous webinars held every two months.
Read MorePlaces are still available for our hosted tour of the Whim Bog experiment in the Scottish Borders on the morning of Friday 5 August. This follows ECT’s Fringe Event at the World Congress of Soil Science in Glasgow on 4 August. For further details on the tour, and to register, see our Events page.
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