ECT has awarded a maintenance grant to Alexander Armstrong and Sami Ullah at the University of Birmingham as a contribution to the costs of repairing essential soil gas-flux monitoring equipment at the 7-year-long BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Norbury, Staffordshire. This award has been co-funded with our partner charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust. Our Small Grants Scheme remains closed to new applications for the remainder of 2024.
Read MoreOur new film on long-term experiments and the charity’s work is now launched on our YouTube channel produced by Content With Purpose. The film is 6½ minutes long and features one of our founding trustees Jonathan Silvertown as narrator, telling the story of why LTEs are important and how ECT supports them.
Read MoreECT will be exhibiting for the first time at this year’s NewScientist Live event being held at the ExCel Centre in London on 12-14 October. Our stand will be I35, near to the ‘Our Planet’ stage, from where we will be making available to visitors our VR headset tours of LTEs in England, Scotland and Wales. View our exhibitor profile for the event.
Read MoreECT will be marking 50 years of continuous research at the Ainsdale Dunes long-term grazing experiment in West Lancashire on 3 October. Hosted by our co-organisers Natural England and in close association with Loughborough and Lund universities, an invitation-only event for 50 guests will be held at the Ainsdale Dunes NNR featuring speakers and a guided tour of the Sally Edmondson Plots.
Read MoreECT has completed two days of filming during the first week of September at four of the LTEs on our national register - Park Grass, BCCIL, BIFoR-FACE and Wicken Fen Vision. The footage will be used to prepare a new corporate film about LTEs and our charitable work.
Read MoreA new paper arising from the first 6 years of research at the RainDrop experiment has been published in the Journal of Ecology titled ‘Differential responses of community-level functional traits to mid- and late-season experimental drought in a temperate grassland’.
Read MoreECT’s latest two-monthly newsletter for August is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on filming for our latest virtual reality (VR) tour of an LTE, together with an important update on ECT’s small grants scheme and news from the Glen Finglas, SRUC Tulloch and Moor House Hard Hill experiments on our national register.
Read MoreECT has just completed filming at the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP) long-term sustainability experiment in Devon. The 360-degree film footage will be used to prepare our next immersive VR tour of a long-term experiment which will be available in our headsets at the BES Annual Meeting in Liverpool on 10-13 December.
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